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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7504801" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 68, Part Two – Mountainside Madness</strong></p><p></p><p>On their mule-back approach to Favela, they were ambushed by a rag-tag band of ne’er-do-wells, who didn’t know what they were up against and didn’t stand a chance. Their leader fled through the trees and was easily apprehended. He was a snivelling junior RHC officer – one of the many recruits Shaiaila Lundquist had been forced by circumstances to draft in to her local force, and one of a pair of officers sent to arrest Katlin Eisner, White Tongue cultist and sister to the druid Ochran. Without much effort they got him to confess his infatuation with Katlin, who had convinced him to murder his superior partner and ‘feed him to the pigs’. Since then, she had become Mayor of Favela, and had the townsfolk eating out of the palm of her hand. Worse still, she had been provoking Granny Allswell by using minor magic to create the sound of singing, playing children throughout the town – in particular, inside the walls of the Barret Damworks. She hoped that Granny would destroy the dam and flood Favela and Bole.</p><p></p><p>Thus apprised of the situation, they went on up the slope into the mountains beyond the treeline. They found the town to be almost deserted, although they knew that more than three-hundred of the original thousand-plus inhabitants remained, hopeful that they might be able to rescue their children, kidnapped by gremlins in the first few days after the Great Eclipse. Braziers full of fire-gems burned everywhere – a dangerous fire hazard in a wooden town, but an obvious sign that the people feared the darkness here even more than elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>They found the townsfolk gathered at the docks up by the reservoir. Katlin Eisner was conducting some kind of lottery and she had the townsfolk rapt, groaning with apprehension as each name was drawn. Uru watched from hiding and reported this back to the others. As the dismay of the crowd grew, he noticed the glimmering seed of a hivemind begin to form in the air above them. He alerted the others to this and then ran out of hiding in the form of the infatuated officer they had just arrested, yelling, “They’re coming!” </p><p></p><p>They were indeed: the king and his retinue now rode into view and – before she could react or flee – Uriel grasped Katlin Eisner with telekinetic force. Leon was already standing invisibly close beside her and now applied mage cuffs. Korrigan used his new ‘macrophone’ (created by Wondermaker at his request) to address the crowd. They flocked to him and begged for help in rescuing their children, quickly overcoming any shock they may have felt at the arrest of their mayor. Disrupted, the hivemind vanished. Korrigan reassured them that their children were his foremost concern but proceeded to disperse the crowd for fear of generating more hiveminds (albeit of a different ‘flavour’).</p><p></p><p>Eisner confessed her malfeasance with a shrug. “The world is doomed anyway. Why shouldn’t I stand highest atop the ruins?” The lottery was being held to decide which of the miners would go into the mines each night and sing songs to appease Granny Allswell. The townsfolk were afraid because – almost every night – one or more of the singers disappeared.</p><p></p><p>With Eisner under arrest, and armed with as much information as they could gather from the rather confused and unreliable miners, they left Gupta with the important task of maintaining order in Favela (preventing Eisner’s escape, and the formation of any more hiveminds) and headed for the Redcap Mine. Before they went, Gupta reminded them of a song Jered Lawman and his band had been singing in the Thinking Man’s Tavern, when they went to interview the first crop of refugees to arrive in Flint. Perhaps he chose the number to help settle the nerves of the newcomers, or perhaps to fend off his own concerns? (As a new father, out celebrating the birth of his daughter with his girlfriend in the crowd). Whatever the inspiration, it was a jaunty remake of ‘All’s Well’, a tune miners drank to after a day with no mishaps in the mines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7504801, member: 79141"] [b]Session 68, Part Two – Mountainside Madness[/b] On their mule-back approach to Favela, they were ambushed by a rag-tag band of ne’er-do-wells, who didn’t know what they were up against and didn’t stand a chance. Their leader fled through the trees and was easily apprehended. He was a snivelling junior RHC officer – one of the many recruits Shaiaila Lundquist had been forced by circumstances to draft in to her local force, and one of a pair of officers sent to arrest Katlin Eisner, White Tongue cultist and sister to the druid Ochran. Without much effort they got him to confess his infatuation with Katlin, who had convinced him to murder his superior partner and ‘feed him to the pigs’. Since then, she had become Mayor of Favela, and had the townsfolk eating out of the palm of her hand. Worse still, she had been provoking Granny Allswell by using minor magic to create the sound of singing, playing children throughout the town – in particular, inside the walls of the Barret Damworks. She hoped that Granny would destroy the dam and flood Favela and Bole. Thus apprised of the situation, they went on up the slope into the mountains beyond the treeline. They found the town to be almost deserted, although they knew that more than three-hundred of the original thousand-plus inhabitants remained, hopeful that they might be able to rescue their children, kidnapped by gremlins in the first few days after the Great Eclipse. Braziers full of fire-gems burned everywhere – a dangerous fire hazard in a wooden town, but an obvious sign that the people feared the darkness here even more than elsewhere. They found the townsfolk gathered at the docks up by the reservoir. Katlin Eisner was conducting some kind of lottery and she had the townsfolk rapt, groaning with apprehension as each name was drawn. Uru watched from hiding and reported this back to the others. As the dismay of the crowd grew, he noticed the glimmering seed of a hivemind begin to form in the air above them. He alerted the others to this and then ran out of hiding in the form of the infatuated officer they had just arrested, yelling, “They’re coming!” They were indeed: the king and his retinue now rode into view and – before she could react or flee – Uriel grasped Katlin Eisner with telekinetic force. Leon was already standing invisibly close beside her and now applied mage cuffs. Korrigan used his new ‘macrophone’ (created by Wondermaker at his request) to address the crowd. They flocked to him and begged for help in rescuing their children, quickly overcoming any shock they may have felt at the arrest of their mayor. Disrupted, the hivemind vanished. Korrigan reassured them that their children were his foremost concern but proceeded to disperse the crowd for fear of generating more hiveminds (albeit of a different ‘flavour’). Eisner confessed her malfeasance with a shrug. “The world is doomed anyway. Why shouldn’t I stand highest atop the ruins?” The lottery was being held to decide which of the miners would go into the mines each night and sing songs to appease Granny Allswell. The townsfolk were afraid because – almost every night – one or more of the singers disappeared. With Eisner under arrest, and armed with as much information as they could gather from the rather confused and unreliable miners, they left Gupta with the important task of maintaining order in Favela (preventing Eisner’s escape, and the formation of any more hiveminds) and headed for the Redcap Mine. Before they went, Gupta reminded them of a song Jered Lawman and his band had been singing in the Thinking Man’s Tavern, when they went to interview the first crop of refugees to arrive in Flint. Perhaps he chose the number to help settle the nerves of the newcomers, or perhaps to fend off his own concerns? (As a new father, out celebrating the birth of his daughter with his girlfriend in the crowd). Whatever the inspiration, it was a jaunty remake of ‘All’s Well’, a tune miners drank to after a day with no mishaps in the mines. [/QUOTE]
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