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Session 87: Animaesus and Tarrasques: The Dark Will vs. The Limited Light

General Summary

Faurwiin begins to have his sons and contacts within the city narrow down towards Anton's gathering and purposes behind the iron storage. What is he crafting? Surely, as well, with the assistance of the 1st House, 6th House, 3rd House, and Mel--or even with them or against them, as there seems to be a continued civil war at play in the undercity. 

Amu is with Karen of the 9th House, and Dauther of the Binder Lord Xantha, and they are in the Spillway of the City of Salt, the western most point of the city limits. She wants to leave, and she wants to know more about the wolfkin primordial and contruct, one that arrived in these last few weeks to supposedly protect the city. He convinces her to let him assist, summong a ritual to control the weather, and Amu also convinces Karen that her true actions of altruism would be helping Birdman. They are able to sneak to the primordials, and Amu stops her before she goes inside, for she will be crushed. They then make a new plan, to learn from Birdman and his former compatriots; they awoke a primordial, so they must know more about them to help her learn from them. They need to find a cleric, or someone else who can send messages through the divine winds, across planes and times. They end up finding Birdman on his way down the sewers. 

Faurwiin connects Alucard with Cheobo, Karin, and Clam, so they can begin searches against Anton's aims. Sentor will join them. 

It is here that an explosion comes from the 9th House District, and the glass tower that makes up the center of that 9th House vibe shatters. The glass joins together, and it morphs into a monstrous skull. However, Birdman, Karen, and Amu, continue below the city, to find Mel, for Birdman, to find Birdman, for Karen, and to ease the city to its next natural end, for Amu. Faurwiin, then, decides at the last minute to turn to face this explostion and to send Tenebris with Pocket to face this adversary, Strass'eh Sick, with him, his entourage of simulacra, and the celstial only. 

When tenebris arrives, Pocket tries to warn him that his aims are self, dark, and perhaps evil. That whom he chooses to face, this bronze squamata, a repitilian more akin to a bearded dragon. He will not seek this idea, not without other means in front of him: a duel, for what purpose? After all that has transpired? Still, Tenebris continues on, and he stealths closer, with Pocekt disappearing into the winds. Seeing the group with the bronze squamata, a mixture of centaur and other animaesus, with beasts and dinosaurs as pets and guards. They are enjoig a night together, with mead, food, and torches as light a warmth. They are obviously ready to move, these few hundred. 
Tenebris walks forward. In his reveal, a ratuees, who is drunk, first sees the planar elf, and then Strass'eh himself. The idea is proposed: a test, a duel: but what rules? At first Strass'eh does not want to engage, not like this, for he marches towards the city and that is where the fighting and the blood should fall, and there, if fate wills, there they will meet. Yet, eventually, he is convinced, in a way, so that Strass'eh can show his own people the might of the light, and the power of the gods that he represents, as this general, this new Walker, this Ender of the Tarrasque. With this, and another layer yet to be seen, the squamata agrees. They duel, and magic is ruled to be limited, but Tenebris is well prepared, so Strass'eh uses his own boons and potions, and eventually Pocket intervenes. This has Tenebris to speak up against pocket's involvement, and the squamata agrees, asking Pocket and the crowd to wait, to let this play out, not to the death, rules intended. Pocket then leaves, and he calls to some creatures nearby, or perhaps waiting, and a testudine comes in riding on giant dinosaurs. A stampede. The gathering begins to disperse, and Tenebris asks for the fight to continue. Strass'eh is done, and he gathers his mount and trails off. Tenebris then returns home to the 11th House. 


Birdman continues to follow Mel, with Amu and Karen following Birdman, and they locate Mel as she gives directions to her crew of undead. These monsters have already dispersed across the caves and tunnels, these sewers of the City of salt. They try to convince Mel to stop this madness, but she sees only blood, and a divine torment seems to take control of her. Yet, Amu is able to call upon her natural inclinations, a restore her consciousness and sanity to a greater extent. 

Faurwiin runs to the center of the 9th house district, as to others: Killian and the wolf Primordial, 6th house members, and others. The skull charges Killian and the wolf primordial.

Cover image: by Seth Love

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