Session 5

We have been invited to a party with Isabella Nora, a member of the Vances. She is a 2nd degree member of the Vancian order, who throws good parties. Isabelle's house looks like a round tower, but the inside is larger. There are a bunch of people at the party, but only some of them are interesting.
 
When we go in, Simone has a vision of one of the party-goers sitting on a throne of bloodsilver, impaled by a number of bladed weapons, dead. She tells me about this. Fynlyn then thinks that that guy is a god that he fought with in the War, Red Comet Shatters the Mighty.
 
I use my quirk to find the most interesting book in here for me. +1 hidden knowledge from this.
 
Fynlyn goes to talk to Red Comet Shatters the Mighty, who is very happy to see him. Fynlyn gets a hug and chats with the god, who recognizes him. They smalltalk. Fynlyn introduces Locke and Simone. Locke just flat out calls the guy a god, which is awkward for a bit, but it was also awesome. Fynlyn invites him to come over for tea sometime.
 
Other interesting guests are:
 
Charles Abernathy (a goetic)
Gilda Morgan (a maker)
Bravish (a vance)
Oriah (a weaver)
Kyam (an elderbrin)
Isabelle Nora (a vance)
 
I introduce myself to Bravish. He's boring. I introduce myself to each person at the party and exchange 1.5 niceties. Things go well until he talks to Kyam, who goes off on a long ass series of puns and horrible jokes. Locke just eremetics away.
 
Simone and Locke introduce themselves to Isabelle, and they have a nice conversation about books. This conversation is going really well, when Simone acts jealous and kind of derails it.
 
Simone goes to tell Isabelle about having had a terrible portent.
 
I went into the bathroom and used Gnaw the Universal Mind to divine if there was anyone here who meant harm. I discovered yes, and that the name Parris was involved. (NOTE: I think this was a GM shift, as Jared suggested a better thing to divine for than what I was doing.) (I also used it to gain access to the spell Conjured Casement for the day)
 
Fynyln summoned an angel to spy for him. Simone poked around and found out that Isabelle the Parris recently broke up.
 
When the angel identified Parris, Parris dropped the illusion as one of the random party-goers, then ran at Isabelle, took her hostage, and then, strangely, started threatening Locke with his knife.
 
Locke rushes Parris. Fynlyn moves in to help. Gwyn disarms Parris, Locke and Fynlyn tackle him and get him under control. Locke gets Isabelle to call the local gerent, and Simone questions Parris, who is just a heartbroken little MRA dipshit. Simone interrogated him, but it doesn't sound like anybody put him up for this.
 
Everyone is impressed, and Isabelle in particular appreciates that we did not murder him. She teaches us Advanced Sortilege.
 
After the party, Simone, Fynlyn and Locke work together to find Limerant Street. Fynlyn sends his angel off to spy. Locke uses Gnaw to get a list of people in this city who know where it is.
 
The angel found that Limerant Street is in the Silver Hill neighborhood of Fartown. The person who can tell us how to get into there, according to my divination is a ghost child named Thomas. I had a weird visitation from a terrible entity, and a sensation that there is someone following me, and that they are looking for Limerant Street and someone named Axon.
 
Thomas does not remember how to get to Limerant Street, but he does haunt a house there.
 
Locke got a gift from Isabelle, a gold sortir.
 
TO MODIFY: +1 hidden knowledge, +2 acumen for the heroics, +2 crux, +3 joy, learned Advanced Sortilege