Session 17

Simone, using her new language secret, learns to decode the terrible writing in Chorian Marsh's notes and Locke's death records. It is a form of eidolon, which tells other people to ignore it, but for us, says "Go back to Shadow, you did nothing wrong, go back." Simone recognizes that it is written in her handwriting. (This should be a step on the Ontological Interference arc.)
 
Simone's bedroom and Fynlan's study is now covered in that writing. In the vision of the dark room, we see that everything is covered in that writing. Also, the thing that was quietly observing, and it is now active.
 
We do Fynlan's task, which is to help Her Elegance. The Chief Attendant of Indigo Affaires for Her Elegance (a meter tall dude with an eyeball for a head) shows up at Fynlan's house. HerEle will be staying at the Hotel of Words in the Marquis Quarter. Attendant thinks that the visit will be uneventful.
 
This is what she looks like https://naturaltwenties.slack.com/files/U10E23AG6/FQMEBJYCV/screen_shot_2019-11-16_at_10.38.42_am.png
 
At the Hotel of Words, HerEle shows up a gigantic retinue of eyeball dudes. She eyefucks Fynlan, and says she chose well. Tomorrow morning at dawn, she will be traveling to another district in the city and requires her champion to accompany her. She goes upstairs, Fynlan gives the hotel staff a lousy tip.
 
We stay at the hotel, and the next morning. HerEle wants to visit the Strangeglass District. Simone and Locke go ahead, Fynlan joins her, Gwyn follows behind. Along the way, some troublemakers try to get to HerEle. One of the troublemakers throws a jar at HerEle, yelling, "You're not wanted here, Enemy of Spiders." Gwyn shoots the jar, and suddenly there are spiders everywhere! Gwyn jumps on the spiders... the spiders try to eat his clothes, but fail. He squishes them.
 
Ahead, some woman in dungarees says, "Hey, are you Locke?" We have a weird interaction, and she pulls a sword on me. Simone bubbles me, I try to eat her mind, she sequence breaks and breaks the spell. I try to disarm her. This fails. The fight continues. This woman tries to hit me with That Sword. I spend 3 physicality and block the damage.
 
I use the incantation THE HANDS OF GOD SHAPE THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS to rearrange the Marquis Quarter so that the woman isn't right by me, but the headquarters of the Defenders is. Fynlan runs in to get help.
 
When she gets around the corner of the building, they see that everyone is grouped up with the Defenders now. Frustrated, she glares at Gwyn, then teleports away. HerEle is upset, and decides to go back to the hotel. Once there, she gives a Fynlan a note and tells him to deliver it to Kudash in the Strangeglass District, and bring back the package he gives him.
 
It's an uneventful trip. Kudash is a silver fox. He gives us a very large but light old-fashioned suitcase. Fynlan looks in the suitcase, it is filled with taxidermied spiders that are each the size of a plate. We go back to the hotel.
 
In the hotel, a very pretty lady in elegant simple clothes, wearing a mask which shows a single tear. She offers to buy the box from us. Turns out she's a Truespider and she wants her dead family members back. It all becomes complicated but eventually Simone convinced HerEle to take Gwyn's manifestation of the Spidering Curse.
 
+1 acumen for dealing with the sword lady, +1 joy for fighting her to a draw. +1 acumen for convincing HerEle to take the substitute for the corpses, +1 despair for gm shift with That Sword lady