Session 14 Downtime

Character Arcs

 

New Discovery - Hacking the Divinatory Deck

Step: Trial and Error -- I put the theories and practices I have learned to work and attempt to create a specific link between my cards, the object in my mind which allows them to be manipulated, the object in my mind which allows me to search for truth when I use Gnaw the Universal Mind, and the universal truth itself. Thus, I bring them into alignment, and am able to manipulate all four concepts as a single entity.
Climax: Eureka! -- I discover the secret I am looking for... see below, New Secret: Oracle.
 

Uncover a Secret - System

Step: Tracking -- I continue to build my relationship with the Princes, seeking to increase my Connections score with them and to learn about, find, meet and talk to the Hidden Prince. (+1 acumen)
 

Train a Creature - The Good Boy

I dunno, need to get this information from Jordan.
 

Fall From Grace – The Ruin of Reason

Cost: The Initial Misstep (-1 acumen)
Opening: The Descent – while reviewing my Project Moksha lab notes, I discovered that everything pertaining to Axon had re-appeared. Quite basically, thus undermines everything. (+1)
Step: Further Descent – If truth is important and knowledge can be managed, how come I was unable to manage the knowledge from Doug Benson's true? The entire project—the search for this knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, protection of knowledge—was meaningless, as in the end it came down not to who knew what, but to do was more willing to shoot the other in the head. (+1 acumen)
Step: Further Descent – the Locke which is summoned by Staring At Long-forgotten Yesterdays is being manipulated by some external power. My self, my memories, are not reliable… this means that my observations of the world are not reliable, and cannot be used as the basis for true knowledge. (+1 acumen)
Step: Further Descent – the wrongness of the notes in Chorian's book prevent understanding, or even investigation… the truth can be concealed even by mere evil. (+1 acumen; this was also worth +1 despair for the experience of being *unable* to continue with my experiments towards the truth)
Step: Lashing Out – Fed up with this, I give up. If Truth is relative and the self is not reliable, then Truth is not the bedrock thing it should be. I lash out, using non-truth and magic to make something new in reality, casting the spell Superfiction to make truth to the lie I have told a number of people, that hidden in a sealed chamber beneath Phoebus Observatory, I have found the ancient and lost Orrery of Anu, an ancient tool for studying cosmology and the connections between all true things, hidden there long ago by Kiska Kama, one of the observatory's first owners. NOTE: Locke was aware that his spell failed, BUT the thing was still there, exactly as I had wanted it to be. (+1 acumen)
Climax: Rock BottomI remove the telescope from its place in the observatory's main room, and replace it with the gigantic orrery. This signals a willingness to search for subjective truth, rather than objective, and more, a devaluing of the concept in general.(+3 acumen, +1 despair)
Resolution(+1 acumen)
 

New Practices

New Secret: Oracle (level 6, based on the secret Belomancy)
By using one of the traditional oracular tools, you are able to enter a transcendental state which allows you to tap the deep roots of truth which link your mind with the universal truth. The oracular power flows through you, allowing you to add +3 to the venture of your next divination.
 
NOT YET DEVELOPED New Secret: Hardened Wards (level 10) (Based on "+2 dice on a significant action, ongoing")
You have woven your permanent wards deep into the very nature of your being. You gain an enhancement of +2 dice on all defensive actions. This effect replaces the bonus from the secret Permanent Ward, which you must know before you learn this secret.
 
Normal XP Spends:
 
Acumen on +1 level each of dodge, resist, withstand and melee (large), +2 levels of Theoretical Magic, learn level 3 spell enhanced physique.
 
Crux on Feed Upon Spell (2 crux), Devour Thoughts (3 crux), Feed Upon Mind (3 crux)
 
Notes: The Long Forgotten Yesterdays, Heironymous gets to talk to himself as a kid. He is able to alter his past in a minor way, which is when he and Locke as 7 year olds got matching tattoos, which they still have. Fynlan however, has the same experience. Locke also RE-EXPERIENCES this experience, while observing Fynlan having it. I do this with another NPC, another Vislae who came out of Shadow... they have the *normal* experience.