2024-09-27 Nexus Peacebuilding - pt 2

General Summary

Scene: Tea on the ship continues

Flying Eiderdown aka Selene, chosen of Jupiter mentions that there are at least 5 Sidereals that she knows of in Nexus, but the 3 or 4 that she mentioned in the note she sent Stelsor are the ones that she doesn’t know the orders of.

Factor Blue Eyes mentions that Factor Byorn’s girlfriend died and that she wasn’t necessarily a Mortal.

Fortifier asks Blue Eyes how long Byorn has been like he is or if any events seemed to lead up to it.

Byorn was in Liveeasy about 9 says ago and was then seen leaving Nighthammer pool with no memory of how he got there.

Stelsor suspects the Silver Lady or Platinum Lady were involved (we knew them to cause memory lapses), but Factor Norma Jean interjects that those two wouldn’t dare.

Stelsor asked about someone in a black helmet

Snacks end, Morale Boosting Meal

Tidetamer namedropped Fer-Ai-Zo-Yun of Dis, Signatory of the Stygian Pact for The Epoch.

Scene: Peace Talks proper

Anacreon Thousand Brushstrokes points out that the current proposal doesn’t currently decide who gets the former Manacle & Coin holdings now that they are withdrawing from the city.

Factor Norma Jean suggests the Coin sell Liveeasy casino back to Plentimon of the Dice, God of Gamblers, Patron of Chance and Good Fortune.

Marpola Brancino and Combative Mattresses eyes turn gold at the idea of how much money the Tang-Zen Crime Syndicate could gain from this.

Stelsor Bladed Tornado lays out a map with onionskin over it. Flying Eiderdown aka Selene, chosen of Jupiter provides inkbottles with different colors for each faction.

The Lover, the Coin and the Guild were founding members of Liveeasy with roughly 1 third each.

The Circle notices that in the new partitioning, the Lover’s share is no longer really drawn.

Stelsor asks if the consensus of those present is that the Liveeasy should stop being a shadowland for the safety of the city.

The shadow of the ziggurat would cover Liveeasy, but there are parts of the ziggurat land that no one died in, didn’t become part of the shadowland.

Fortifier asks Byorn if he had anything with him when he was found in Nighthammer.

Byorn rambles about how he wasn’t found and nothing ever can be. He understands this, now that he has glimpsed Oblivion.

Fortifier asks Byorn what his last memory was before the Maw.

Byorn says he was looking for his Bonbon (Dark Bonbon of Perdition, champion of Shines-in-Numbers), and a ghost told him to go this way and he encountered a maze and there he found the Maw.

Blue Eyes is looking at Byorn like Byorn grew a third head.

Fortifier is surprised that Byorn could reach the Labyrinth from the streets of Nexus.

Blue Eyes points out that Byorn is skilled necromancer.

Bears-Fangs approaches Steele Cast

Bears-Fangs brings up Steele Cast’s encounter with Flora, which sets Steele Cast off. Steele Cast pushes him against a wall and demands to know how he heard this. Bears-Fangs attributes the rumor to Luna.

The Solar ghost that had possessed Flora Gesatti, Keirin Dawnstrider, was a prior incarnation of Steele Cast’s Exaltation.

The dalliance between Flora and Steele Caste had happened after her possession

Nyeah appears in a space near Fortifier, Byorn and Blue Eyes

She says that she has been dematerializing lately and blips back to the Underworld.

She looks at Byorn and states that “You’ve seen it too haven’t you.” and describes the Maw.

Fortifier asks what she know about the The Maw of the Void’s effects on mortals.

She says she doesn’t really know how it would affect the living; It is very rare for dead souls to enter the Labyrinth at all, much less reach the Maw at the center.

The Maw is the remnants of one or more dead primordials.

Fortifier asks Nyeah if removing the memory from Byorn might improve his condition. She says that removing the memory might permit him to heal.

Fortifier asks if Nyeah is immune to this Maw because of her Abyssal state.

Nyeah says immune isn’t quite the right term, she says, though as an Abyssal the Maw doesn’t dominate her free will like it does for Ghosts.

Fortifier senses she talks about the Maw as having desires and asks if it communicates.

Nyeah pulls Fortifier away from others to explain that some have been known to hear Whispers of the dead primordials.

Scene: Dinner

Toast, everyone drinks, though the undead drink their own kind of wine.

Darkwine with the tears of 400 ghosts to flavor it.

Nyeah asks Bears-Fangs how his business has been.

Bears-Fangs asks Tide-Tamer if he’s drank darkwine before. Tide-Tamer says he has, but it didn’t agree with him. The occasion had to do with the Ferule(?) which is a name known to Thousand Brushstrokes.

Stelsor plays footsie with Norma Jean.

Someone is walking down the stairs. It is Byorn’s majordomo and amanuensis, Shines with the Glory of an Unheralded Gleam. They take up a place behind Byorn at the table.

Fortifier’s Celestial Overseer Concordat detects this newcomer is a Raksha.

Shines explains he was detained and commends Byorn for seeming more lively today.

Someone strikes up conversation with Creon Flecktar Blood-spatter.

Flectar is apprenticed to Thousand Brushtrokes

Has magical blood splatter from those his slays.

Fortifier is intrigued and asks if this blood has special properties or is purely cosmetic. Apparently it is somewhat related to his Artifact weapon.

During dessert, Essence-of-Spice-Trade asks for 6 pieces of the cake and adds lots of cinnamon to him.

Stelsor puts Thousand Brushstrokes on the spot to explain what he as learned about the ziggurat collapse.

Thousand Brushstrokes reveals medallions that he got from Miribadi. This is him making good on our deal for him to claim credit for destroying the ziggurat that the Circle destroyed.

Shines shouts for everyone to duck while Byorn begins chanting something, casting a spell

Stelsor succeeds on a social roll to interrupt and calm him somewhat.

Fortifier and Shines are able to physically restrain him.

Byorn is no longer casting Death Door, but instead softly repeating the name of Bonbon of Perdition

Fortifier is mishearing it and is concerned these are the Whispers Nyeah mentioned.

Nyeah is covering her face with her hair.

Bears-Fangs tries to tell if Shines is reacting to the name and senses this is Shines’ sister.

When Byorn speaks the name for the 3rd time, Bonbon appears.

Character(s) interacted with

Assistant-Factor Nyeah, Anacreon Thousand Brushstrokes Shines with the Glory of an Unheralded Gleam Factor Byorn Factor Blue Eyes Factor Norma Jean Essence of Spice Trade, Architect of Nexus

Report Date

28 Sep 2024

Primary Location

Nexus

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