The Pantheon War Campaign/Session 16

Before:
*Haruspex & Humboldt go to the city
**Rather than doing brunch, they decide to mess everything up - including time!
**Zulkir is summoned by the many deaths of the various Haruspexes and the real (?) Haruspex decides to remain in the city
*The rest of the party deals with the after effects of time going all wibbly-wobbly. 
**Humboldt is dead *sad face*, and it does not look like a pleasant death (from anyone else's perspective)
**Someone else is dead though (either Tome or Haruspex) but we're not sure who without digging up a corpse.
This session:
*What do we tell Queen 
**Some random advice from no one (for future reference). "The kingdom is rekt. Wait for things to get less weird and then it will be wide open."
*Talking to the preacher man
**Q: "What loop does Haruspex being in the city close?" A: "Haruspex was the vector to make sure that I could start my journey. I help those who have been ravaged from the city, an art that can only be learned by spending time with Death. … I didn't know Haruspex before meeting him here, but the founders of my order did. Haruspex, or at least entities like Haruspex, brought death into the City. My order is from the City. My interests are no longer the City's interests - 'otherwise I would not be denying it small meals like I do.' My order does not exist in opposition to the city, but it is part of the machinery of the City. I was a novice when I left, and I don't know it's full function. There was a time when death was forbidden knowledge. In order for it to be managed, experts had to be created"
**Q: "Is Haruspex from the City?" A: "He's not from the City and I don't know how he became inflected."
**Q: "What is life like in the City?" A: "Rather circular" (Ziton mutters "Just like your answer to the question.") "Out here, the city pops in and out 'like thread being woven in a cloth', but most of you don't see the pattern. Here you have all the time the Cosmos has to offer. The city has a much more tightly woven sense of time, in essence it is like a circle."
***Is time actually a circle? Elesett ponders. She decides he's full of $#!+
***Ziton consults his knowledge of Lore and ponders if time can become "locally circular". He decides that it only appears to be so and the preacher can't distinguish.
**Q: "How did life come to the City?" A: "I don't know. I don't know whether it did or whether it was always there. My assumption is that it was always there. Perhaps relative to now, there was a distant point in which the city was fashioned, but who knows. The myth is that the Founder of our City yoked together the Elder Gods of "cause" and "effect" and in so doing created our City."
***Meta: If we stop the city, do we kill the Elder gods of cause and effect and cause the breakdown of the entire Aledrum setting? Or do we create the Aeldrum multiverse? 
***There are elder gods of the Beginning and the End, Tourgal and Dourgal, that keep time moving and in proper order. They are "father and daughter" and "mother and son". Among the more primordial Gods, even before Zulkir. Certainly no notion of them being yoked together like oxen.
****More ancient than Death
**Q: "Can someone create an obstacle to prevent the City from appearing?" A: "The places seem chosen to minimize attention and the odds of extraordinary beings (like us) would be less likely to notice."
***How do you defeat a parasite? The Elder God Ivermectin is famous and well-known
**Q: "Is it advisable to destroy the City?" A: "I'm not sure if that's a good idea given the nature of its time. I don't know if from the City's perspective, it's in all places at all times. I have memories of all the ways I could have been born and died and have met myself."
**Q: "What is the name of your order(s)?" A: The one to which I belong to now or the one that taught me about death. (Ziton - Why not both?). I currently belong to a fraction of my order that calls itself "Liberty in Death". The original order calls itself "The Maintenance Men", because we maintained the City through death."
**He declines an invite to come talk to our friends because we might be making bigger waves than both.
**Ziton shouts at the preacher man as he walks away, "Bye, Rand!". The preacher man does not turn around. Ziton decides his name is not Rand.
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