# Session S02 `=this.prev` | **`=this.campaign`** | `=this.next` > [!overview] > | **Session** | `=this.session` | > | --- | --- | > | **Session date** | `=this.date-session` | > | **Campaign date** | `=this.campaign-date` | > | **PCs** | `=this.pc` | > | **Active NPCs** | `=this.npc_active` | > | **Discussed NPCs** | `=this.npc_discussed` | > | **Active locations** | `=this.location-active` | > | **Discussed locations** | `=this.location-discussed` | > [!summary]- > To write. > %% > tldr:: To write. > %% ## Notes - Gems on hands - [[The Patriarch]] has 8 embedded gems on their hands. - [[Divine Nex]] has 3 embedded gems on their hands. - The first three are identical - Able to identify first 2, left to right - 1st – Fullerite - rods, tubes, stronger than diamonds) - Also called Everlast - 2nd Radium - Glows pale blue - 3rd – Mystery - Appears grey and dusty, but it's not dusty - 4th Mystery - Has movement like things are crawling - 5th Mystery on thumb - The stone is there, occular disstortion, see through - 6th Mystery - Pink towards the thumb - Gem looks mechanized, gears - 7th – Mystery - Looks foamy and spongy - 8th – Mystery - Looks like liquid - The five leaders all have three gems - Some others have two or one gems, but weren't quarreling with the 3-gemmers - Exit through white corridor. Long corridor. Seems longer than the globe. 15–20 minutes. - Get to choose 3 cyphers - [[Attractor]] - Keep: [[Disrupting nodule]] - [[Spatial warp]] - Use: [[Visage changer]] to look like [[Venus]] in a leather jacket - Keep: [[Machine control implant]] - Divine Nex asks why Venus is here when *she* asks what we're doing - It's Shin Obligations… obviously. (…right?) - The globe is green. - People seem to know Divine Nex. - A day's worth of travel. - They try to get us to reveal at least something of ourselves. - We get the sense that Squee doesn't have a background involving currency - Squee didn't choose to be here - Venus doesn't think eating apples is cool… (Squee eats apples) It's like eating plant skin. - Venus is trying to learn the rules as a "people" now… - Venus chose to be here - Divine Nex came to rest on "the fullcrum" (organization) - Jackie basically reveals nothing about her past or why she's here - Divine Nex says they feel sorry for her - Divine Nex talks with Squee - Translation book - Coin > the coin Jackie gave him - Squee points to themselves "Squee" then points to Jackie, "Lie" - Divine Nex was able to teach a word… - Landscape has changed past the city proper - Slanting, slippery, weirdly smooth and metallic sounded - Small game around a small pool (like an oasis…) miles away, 100-ft away - Jackie notices a humanoid figure that scurries into a vertical circle (like a Stargate… ish) - We all speak some variation of Axiom - Crying flarf = crying wolf - Divine Nex doesn't quite believe me - Leaders direct and there's some level of evaluation happening - Large door placed over the portal - The pyramid is called the [[Seat of the Fulcrum]] - Head towards the oasis - Venus and Squee float down - Squee looks like they're about to jump, and Jackie says Squee (simmer down), Squee (focus on Venus, focus on "down") - Jackie, with absolute confidence, scales the wall with rope. Divine Nex looks impressed. - Examine portal, one side is closed, one side is open - Jackie tosses a rock through the open side and it just phases through - Squee and Venus jump through - Venus decyphers the words - It gives a directional to the restroom. Not helpful. - Squee gets board and starts fiddling with a cypher - Jackie bends down to help set the time turner-like device ([[Temporal viewer]]) - GM intrusion, Squee sees the future instead hitting the wrong button at the last moment - Divine Nex does a spit-take at this - We see ourselves, different possibilities happening, most make the same trace lines - Divine Nex is still throughout the entire time, watching and judging - We see ourselves keep popping back into place, not able to leave - Venus detects a spatial bubble within this environment (the bounce back) - Jackie grabs her crowbar and starts wedging it into the door frame - "Squee" to Squee, "Squee" simmer down - Jackie persuades them to open the door (nat20) - Venus says something that they're dangerous… and they question it. - Bird-like creatures come out… buzzing sound when they talk. Pain. They are abhumans. - Venus, for 5 hours, uses telepathy cypher. - Jackie tries to David Bowie a glowglobe but it's not interesting. They have them. - She instead gives them her [[Disrupting nodule]] in exchange to let the three of them pass. - They like that. Take it, investigate it. - Open the door, go in, talk, see small device… and whatever the forcefield is around, gets turned off for a limited time - Squee gets impatient, because he really wants to see inside the place after waiting there so long… - Jackie tries to negotiate that Squee can go take a look… - Session ends with Jackie rolling a nat1, and Squee starts walking towards the door