Housekeeping

• We gain 3 xp from last session
  • Spent all 6 banked to up Actor and Scene to 4

Saturday, November 05, 2022 - training day

• We head to training day which starts bright and early at 11:00 am
  • Agnes, Blaze, Aoife, and I go together and arrive on time…as the only people that do
  • Moira shows up at noon, along with the rest of the folks that do
• We take the elevator up to an empty floor
  • There are catering staff setting up and some mats that haven't been laid out yet
• Blaze and Agnes hatch a plan to go through the ducts up to the floor where the court is
  • Blaze goes ferret and climbs up there with the plan to use the elevator there to go down to get Agnes, and then go back up
  • Blaze makes it up and overhears a conversation between Baron Berin and Baroness Sabrina
    • There's mention of Baroness Sabrina's friends in California who may want Atlanta to sandbag things?
• Blaze manages to send the elevator down and the rest of us that are there get on and head up to the penthouse level so Agnes can snoop in the library more
  • The elevator opens as Baroness Sabrina is walking by
  • Agnes sneaks off while Aoife and I go to run interference
    • Sabrina offers us the opportunity to swear vassalage to her, joining our freehold to hers
• Agnes finds a thick volume about antebellum Atlanta that has been rebound in the last decade or two
  • It appears to be a collection of journals and letters written by changelings during the civil war
  • She takes said book and heads back to the elevator
• We all meet up on the way to the food court
  • Blaze tells us some vague, and maybe not wrong recollection of what she overheard
  • Aoife pieces together that the "friends in California" are Shadow Court
• Moira and Agnes go to put the book in Moira's car
  • On the way back, they run into Magpie and another Boggan
  • Moira basically saves her from the conversational trap that is Magpie
  • Her name is Heart, and her eyes are inky black, and looks like one of the people from our group vision
• A clearly hungover, band of aging goths show up
  • (Storm of Souls)
  • A woman who is probably a Sidhe kinain (Sirena)
  • A man that is a stone giant (Stonetooth)
  • A tiger pookah (Augustus)
  • They tell us the name of the burnt redcap in our vision
    • They were eaten by a phoenix
    • His name was Cathesig (sp?)
  • I get their autographs to add to my hoard
• Heart is a cop
  • Her ex-partner was also a kithain
  • Was a problem, hurt suspects, she got tarred with the same brush as him
  • She and her partner both went through their chrysalis shortly before the Stone Mountain stuff 20 years ago
    • He became a troll
  • Asad tells me that she was eaten by a fell
• Talk with Baron Athelstan
  • He doesn't recognize the troll woman from our vision I describe
    • But he's interested in meeting her…wink, wink
  • Says to come by Oglethorpe and try and talk to Professor Dreamcatcher, a werewolf who is a professor of Native American studies
    • Laura Banali

What's behind the mystery door?

• We head back to our freehold to enact our plan of going through the locked door once the sun has set
• Moira uses the key to unlock the door
  • It opens into a small room that looks like it belongs to the house, five feet wide and 15 feet across
  • There are doors on either side and windows on the opposite wall looking out onto daylight
    • Outside the window is an irregularly shaped courtyards
  • Blaze and I simultaneously open the doors, her the left, me the right
    • The right door opens to a richly appointed study with hardwood paneled walls, very posh, smelling of leather, brandy, and fine wood
      • Two doors to the left
      • There are books on some of the shelves
      • A painting on the wall opposite the door I opened of a ship on a slightly stormy sea
      • There is a door next to the painting
        • It opens on a richly appointed bedroom
          • There is a giant door with a keyhole opposite the door we entered
          • There is a door on the left wall
        • Another bedroom, with a more country estate feel
          • There is a door on the left
          • A door on the opposite wall
          • A locked door on the right
        • Through the center door, is a bathroom with a door on the other side
      • Through that door is a rustic cabin room with another door across and a loft above, and windows on the left wall  that looks into the corridor with a door next to them
      • The door that should go into the courtyard opens into a room that looks out on the courtyard and is positively full of books with a door on the other side
      • That door leads into a fully appointed blacksmith's shop with a door on the left and a door on the right
      • The door on the right goes to the rustic bedroom, and through the other is the courtyard
      • We cross the courtyard and eventually find a door that opens to the study and we go back through to the stable
    • The left door opens onto a stables with several large stalls
      • The stalls are along the opposite wall from the door and are all unoccupied
      • There is a large door to the right side of the door we opened, on the same wall with a keyhole
      • There is a door on the left wall
        • It opens to a big flagstone floored storage room with a door on the left and a hole in the wall opposite that leads into a storage room
        • Through the hole in the wall is a big, vaulted cathedral like space with a door and 2 holes that lead further in
          • The door leads to the courtyard
        • The left hole leads to a large kitchen in the style of 200 years ago with a colossal locked stone door on the opposite wall, a pantry closet and a couple other doors
        • The right hole leads to an outdoor space with a small courtyard and cemetery
          • There are more doors one of which is narrow and leads to a stone room which contains more doors and a locked skull door
        • Moira unlocks the skull door which opens to a catacomb full of bones
          • Our phones' GPS tells us we're in Rome, like, in the heart of Vatican City
    • Our seemings are starting to come to the fore, so these spaces are probably either in or on the edge of the Dreaming