Adventure Diary: Mexico

## Monday, 9 March 2015

### Summon the Triplets of Jal'dara

We gather gifts for the triplets and set up near the omphalus. We call up the fountain and begin collecting people. Sarah calls the Triplets to find out if they can help. They can read a willing selenim. Sarah successfully contracts with Gyran. Sarah summons the second twin and succeeds in a contract. Sarah summons the third and succeeds with a contract.

### Alexi appears in Jal'dara - asks of grandmothers memory

Alexi suddenly appears in Jal’dara. He is probably the first selenim to ever go there. Alexi tells them of a memory of his grandmother telling the butterfly story. Shiran says there is no such memory. He asks about his grandmother’s memory telling him to never follow a butterfly. Shiran keeps looking at him and then flicks a butterfly out of the air that is very feisty. She swallows the butterfly and they are in pain. The other twins share the pain. Alexi sees a young version of his grandmother looking at a tree and looking at the bark. The bark is glowing in a spot. She says it is like these souls are butterflies attracted to our little Prince of Flowers. She is impressed by this. The image shifts and he is sitting in his grandparents house. He sees an old woman say to him something biblical about souls and heaven and pearly gates, etc. The memory has been powerfully modified that makes even them struggle to get the information. Alexi is proud of himself and the young grandmother is proud of him but the triplets cannot access the young grandmother’s mind/memory.

Alexi also asks if they know of someone called Misaphael. They do not know.

They relay everything to Gilbert.

We leave and head out for Mexico in a chartered plane.

## Tuesday, 10 March 2015 midday

Alexi rings the author of the book. He asks to meet with him again. He can meet us for dinner on Tuesday. We are flying on a chartered plane. Before we leave, a delightful old lady arrives. It is Io in a new simulacrum.

### Fields in Mexico feel complicated and crystalised

As soon as the plane lands, we all feel quite unwell because the fields are complicated and not nephilim friendly. In Ka-sight, we see that the fields are different in that they are not as fluid and they appear almost crystallised on the outside. This will impact how we do magic. Io tells us that there is a lot of black moon in central America and it is fucking up the fields.

### Sarah contacts Astramance - sephirah's learned

 Sarah pulls out her walkie talkie with Astramance and she is told it is dangerous here. Sarah asks if she can spend some time with us while we do things and give us warnings on what might be happening. Which sephirahs does she function under?

* Malkut - lookout

* Yesod - predicts worst case scenario
* Hod - air - slightly difficult - safety and being cautious - analyse consequences of an action or decision
* Netzah - fire - Slightly Difficult - reflect any damage taken by the target that she is protecting and inflict it on the assailant.

### Alexi calls Martensen to ask about El Mariposa

Alexi calls Martensen to ask about the book. El Mariposa is definitely a selenim. When a human dies, the soul is anchored to a decomposing body or an item that is important or a location. It is possible for a necromancer to re-anchor a soul. You need a dead person and a new anchor. A living person cannot be anchored. If there is a way to do that, it is unknown.

Sarah asks if Martinson could reverse engineer a tethered live person. What is the purpose of tethering living souls? It is capturing sun-ka to use for other things.

### Pendant info

Alexi asked Zora how she got the pendant. Zora got the pendant from Fizz. Sarah asks Fizz where she got Alexi’s pendant. Fizz pinched it from Alexi and gave it to Zora to enchant. Fizz knew nothing about Gilbert. Zora received it via post.

### Sarah summons the triplets - memory of Mary pendant: Black Moon/Sun-Ka is blocking the memories

Sarah tries to summon the triplets to search another of Alexi’s memories. We look into the memory of when Alexi got his Mary pendant. They have difficulty with the memory again. Alexi sees a stall/shop. There are little crosses, virgins, etc. Alexi grabs a pendant but he is an adult. In a second memory, he sees an emotional old woman very well dressed and there is a boy in front of her wearing his Sunday best. She unhooks her pendant and it is a similar pendant but not the same. Alexi’s intent on buying the pendant appears to be blocked. Black Moon or Sun-ka is being used to block the memories. The memories have been removed. They left only imprints. The memory is protected and cannot see the protected layer.

### Sarah asks Martensen about memory replacement

Sarah asks Martensen about how to remove and replace a memory. Memories are sun-ka. It may be the memory of the simulacrum. The selenim may have had his memory altered if he was willing. It is easier to change existing memories than creating new ones.

Dinner with Gabriel Ramirez - Author of The Soul Thief

### We go to dinner with Gabriel.

Sarah connects us all via the Hive Mind and Gilbert stays behind.

Sarah and Alexi go to the table. We now all understand Spanish. Gabriel is a neck-beard nerd. He welcomes the two. He asks if they are fans. He claims he doesn’t know who is playing the roles in the movie and that they will have to talk to the casting director. Alexi says they are more interested in the writing of the book. Gabriel tells about how he started writing about it. Someone told him about the story and he started to research it. Gabriel thinks Alexi is just a fan.

Gilbert researches the local government.

### Sarah does futhark - suffusing, but Gabriel is resisting

Sarah does futhark suffusing to get him to reveal information using Perthros. Sarah suddenly feels drained. He was about to say something then catches himself and tries to turn the conversation around. Alexi sees Sarah lose some luster. Someone may be draining her sun-ka. Sarah loses a point of sun-ka. Gilbert slips in ka-sight to see what is up. Gilbert sees Gabriel’s hand is glowing. Sarah’s suffusing succeeded but Gabriel succeeded in resisting.

Gilbert casts a spell to free up Gabriel’s mind.

### What we learn from Gabriel - The real author is Anatoli

We learn that Gabriel didn’t write the book. The writer is a really dangerous guy who kills people. He was an old-fashioned Russian guy. He came with the whole story in a file. The guy’s name is Anatoli Artenyev.

Gilbert casts the spell to make him more pliant again.

### Go back to Gabriel's - cocaine and phenergen

Sarah goes back to Gabriel’s place with him. Gilbert and Alexi follow. Gabriel is wildly drunk. Sarah asks for something for a headache and Gabriel offers cocaine. Sarah sets up a line of phenergen. Sarah snorts some coke while Gabriel snorts the phenergen. Sarah senses the rune in the core. Gabriel is unconscious.

### Sarah locates a safe and gets the contents

Sarah uses alchemy to detect traps, etc. There are cameras on the balcony. There is nothing in the house. There is a safe in the bedroom. Sarah lets Gilbert and Alexi in. Sarah puts a hole in the safe and takes out the contents. There are cash, drugs and papers in the safe. Sarah uses Tamali to copy the documents. The stuff is put back in the safe and the hole closes. The data is transferred onto our phones.

### Cleaning up

Alexi removes all memory of the events. We clean up the apartment so that nothing is suspicious.

### Documents from the safe - book info

We go to a hotel and read the documents. We have all the info in the book. It has been packaged by an informed selenim. We have the address on where to find Anatoli in a barber salon in Mexico City. We have the name of the lawyer controlling the ownership of the island. The lawyer is the same lawyer that sold the grandparent’s house. Fabien believes the info is compiled second hand from several sources and one of the sources knows El Mariposa personally.

## Tue 10 Mar 2015

### **Dot Points of a Selenim**

Head to dinner.
Gabriel has a neck beard. We are fans of the book.
Someone told him about the story, he didn't believe. He checked a few facts. It reflects Mexican culture.
The paper - lawyer has the deeds. Waiting to be claimed by the heir.
Ask for Arenesto's details. Won’t give up personal information.
Cover image is a composite of the details.
We look at his Futhark and he is hiding something.
Use suffusing to embed the opposite on him. Sarah loses Sun Ka - confirmed this through Ka Sight.
Gilbert casts a spell to open him up.
He spills. He didn't write the book. He was the one typing. He wove the information into the book.
It’s a mafia kind of guy, super dangerous. Russian guy. Russian guy came to him with the story. Gave the file of all the details.
The name of the Russian - Anatoli Artemyev
The documents that he got from the Russian are at the apartment.
Sarah and he head back to the apartment.
Make him fall asleep. Let us in.
I make him forget.
Sarah gets documents from a safe.
Head to hotel. Read documents
Everything that is in the book is in the documents.
The package has been organised by a Selenim who knows what he is talking about.
Get the address of how to find Anatoli. A barber salon in Mexico.
Have enough information to find the Lawyer.
The Lawyer is the same lawyer who sold my grandparents’ house.
Fabien looks into things - the information seems to be compiled second hand from several sources. One seems to know El Mariposa personally.

## Tue 10 Mar 2015 (continued)

We arrive in Mexico. Escobar meets us and we have Io with us who looks like Grandma Yetta. --->

### Xochimilco - Alexi's hometown; to speak to his dead grandparents.

We go to Xochimilco where Alexi grew up. We travel to the cemetery so that he can speak with his dead grandparents. Alexi is going to use the Toxic Winds of the Starlit Skies to clear out the cemetery. Fabien activates the Hive Mind so that we aren’t frightened by the things that Alexi is about to do. Fabien succeeds in contracting the Hive Mind connecting us all.

Alexi starts to perform his magic to clear out the cemetery. People panic and run. For Gilbert, it triggers a memory of bashing his head against a door in a hotel. Escobar almost panics but the Hive Mind protects him.

Gilbert uses Princes of the Torchlit Labyrinth to hide the immediate area for Alexi to work his magic in speaking with his grandparents.

**Alexi** **sees an old woman whom he remembers as his grandmother from his visions but he has no memory of actually meeting this person. She definitely is not the woman he remembers as his grandmother.**

**Alexi** **sees an old man and recognises him as his grandfather. He speaks to his grandfather.** Alexi asks the following questions:

1. Where did I come from? Here.
2. What happened to my father? He died in a car accident in the US.
3. Where was Grandma born? In Spain.
4. What was my father’s name? Manuel Emilio Catalan.
5. Do you know anything about the Isle of Dolls? Nothing particular.
6. Do you know El Mariposa or why you are pictured in the book? He says he has never looked like that.
7. Do you know the person in the photo? No.

### Alexi calls Martenson so that we can ask him some questions:

1. Can Selenims have children? Yes, but the children would not be Selenims. They would be undead. They would be human hooked on Black-moon.
2. What are the complications of changing simulacrums? If you are in an akasha and die, the simulacrum is thrown off the akasha; if, at that point, a human mind is traveling into this akasha in sleep and is there before you evaporate, then you can hijack their mind and take their body.
3. Would the Selenim be intact with memories? Probably not.
4. Do you know of La Llorona and her relationship to El Mariposa? He knows that Selenims in central America took the roles of divinities. All of the South American gods are disembodied Selenims. When the cultures change, they either lose powers or adapt. Perhaps La Llorona is a Selenim that adapted to the Spanish invasion.
5. Can a Selenim become a homunculus? Yes. It is rare and difficult and very few minor arcanas know about Selenims but it is possible. Martensen will kill any homunculus he finds and will also kill the creators.

Martensen hangs up and goes back to bed.

We thank the Princes of the Torchlit Labyrinth and release the Hive Mind.

### Meeting Ricardo Ramos - lawyer

We go to find the lawyer, Ricardo Ramos, who has involvement with all of Alexi’s affairs. Alexi has arranged a meeting. We can go to his apartment any time.

We go to his apartment to meet Ricardo Ramos. Alexi plans to tell him that he is a potential heir to the Torres family.

Fabien summons the Hive Mind and succeeds. Gilbert goes in with Alexi while the others wait in hiding outside. Ricardo welcomes us in his over-the-top, fancy, Trump-like apartment/office.

Alexi reminds Ricardo that they spoke via email. Gilbert goes to the bathroom to switch into ka-sight and to try to see any shapes in the core of Ricardo. The apartment seems normal in ka-sight to Gilbert but he is not in the room with Alexi and Ricardo.

### Alexi thinks he might be the heir to the Island of Dolls

Alexi tells Ricardo why he thinks he might be an heir. Ricardo says his name is not the name of the people who own the island. Ricardo says the island belonged to Manuel Emilio Torres. Alexi declres that his grandmother’s maiden name is Torres. Ricardo is impressed by that.

Gilbert comes back into the room in ka-sight for a quick look and does shape in the core again. Ricardo is human and there is no weird field-play anywhere.

Ricardo has the following rune: Wunjo meaning joy, carelessness, wind, good news, pleasure.

Ricardo is intrigued by Alexi’s information. Ricardo asks if he has more proof. Alexi asks for more info on the island. Ricardo tells the same stories we already heard about the dolls and the creepy nature of it. Alexi asks how he became the lawyer in this case. Ricardo tells us that he was contacted by the owners in 1982. Alexi mentions that this is his birth year and Ricardo is surprised to hear it. Ricardo does not have the contact details of the people who contacted him. The previous owner was Luvia Rosa Allende. The owners sent the documents via post.

Alexi hires Ricardo to work for him. Ricardo has the previous and current titles and provides copies of the titles. Gilbert reads the titles to share the info with the group via the Hive Mind.

Escobar decides to perform divination on the character of Ricardo (element: Air). He needs 15 minutes to do augury (taking the auspices). He finds out that the lawyer is highly corrupted. Ricardo will do anything for money. In this matter, he is done a lot for money. He is most likely lying.

Alexi asks for the original letters again but is turned down.

### Magically interrogating Ricardo Ramos

Alexi performs the Purple Medusa on Ricardo freezing him. The others enter form outside and Fabien puts a Choker of Truth on Ricardo (alchemy).

Gilbert suffuses Pertho to encourage Ricardo to tell the truth.

Fabien summons the Princes of the Torchlit Labyrinth to stop any screaming from being heard.

Gilbert uses revealed-danger alchemy to look for traps. We find a safe behind a painting. There are basic locks but nothing out of the ordinary.

Gilbert opens the safe using a spell to make a hole.

Alexi starts asking Ricardo questions and learns the following:

* He was paid to transfer the title into the Torres family in 2010 and to counter-date it to 1982.
* It was all done through letters which were burned.
* He was paid very well.
* He had no idea if someone would claim as an heir. No one has come forward to claim before.
* He was paid in cash. The letter request had a lot of money in it.
* He became a lawyer for Alexi’s grandparents via an anonymous letter and he pretended to be a public lawyer.
* Anatoli Achimov is a person who is very interested in Alexi and Manuel Emilio Torres. Ricardo gives us a phone number for Anatoli’s second in command. Anatoli came in person and terrified him. Anatoli is a psychopath. This happened less than a year ago before the publication of the book. Anatoli said if anyone came to claim the land that he was to be informed. Anatoli is a Russian psychopath who arrived a few years ago and has carved out his own space in Mexico by taking over other organised crime areas. He is into lots of illegal things. He will kill people himself. He had not made the connection between the island and his grandparents house.
* He knows nothing more.

### Policeman knocks at the door

There is a gentle knock at the door. Gilbert looks through the peep-hole from a distance using a spell. It is a young fairly attractive policeman. Ricardo is not aware of why the police would be there.

Gilbert uses a spell to make himself look like Ricardo. Gilbert can suddenly feel like he has an amazing understanding of magic and should have gone up a level but did not. We need to find out why!

Gilbert tries to sense orichalcum but detects nothing. Escobar uses harmony and does determine that this person has Black-moon on him but he is not a selenim. He may be a Black-moon-junkie, undead person. We decide to wait and see what he does but cannot tell he if has left after a short time.

Gilbert looks magically through the peep-hole again. He again feels like he understands the magic and can raise up a level but it doesn’t happen. The cop is still waiting there and being very nonchalant about it.

We now have an upset lawyer who wants to know if we are going to kill him and an undead cop outside the door.

Gilbert summons Astramance but rolls a 1 and is enkaibated 2 points and freezes Astramance.

Fabien summons Astramance and succeeds. He asks what is the worst thing to happen if we open the door? Astramance says that we might attack him in a way that makes his superior think that we are a real threat. We release Astramance.

Gilbert opens the door. He looks past me and at the office. He says he heard a disturbance. Gilbert asks what he thinks he heard. He claimed neighbours called. Gilbert invites him in and he finds nothing.

### Undoing the magic and wiping the memory of our visit from Ricardo Ramos - The policeman want to take us to his superior

The cop declares that he knows Gilbert is not the lawyer. He says he wants to take us to his superior and will not harm us. We agree to go with him if he waits outside. We undo all the things we have done and Fabien and Escobar wait with the cop while Gilbert and Alexi clean up inside. Io helps. Alexi mixes a sleeping tablet into tequila. Ricardo falls asleep and Alexi removes all the memories of our visit. A roll of 20 means he remembers nothing about us.

We all head out to the cop.

We go for a short ride with the cop and arrive at a fancy mansion around 8pm.

### **Dot Points of a Selenim**

Lawyer - Ricardo Ramos
In the pack of the book - on of the people knew El Mariposa personally.
Head to Xochimilco to the grave yard,
We hivemind so the Nephilim are not scared,
Call the toxic wings of starlit sky to get rid of everyone in the grave. Clears the grave.
Escobar freaks out (even with hivemind) and runs (after roll).
We roll as hivemind to see if we can calm - we find out that Escobar has a panic fear of Black-moon.
Hide the area with Nep magic
Use necromancy to see the death of grandmother
See the woman of the Grandmother the vision of a woman from my visions - but of whom I have never met the person.
Grandfather - I recognise as grandfather. Memories are wrong but the person is right.
Speak with Grandfather.
Island of the Dolls - grandfather knows of it.
The picture of the soul thief that I thought was my Grandfather is not my Grandfather.
Martensen: He knows that Selenim in South America took the roles of divinities. At the time most of the gods were disembodied Selenim. When culture changed, you lose powers or adapts.
Set up meeting with Layer - Ricardo Ramos - can come around anytime.
We go to Ricardo Ramos.

We head into the apartment.
Chat. On the document the island belonged to - Manuel Emilio Torrez
Ask about the island. It is a plot of land in the channels of Xoocimilco. Crazy man who nailed dolls to trees and it looks really creepy.
How he became the lawyer - he was contacted by the owners in 1982.
The previous owner was Luvia Rosa Allende - contacted through post.
Make a copy of the titles. Wont show the originals.
Escobar is doing some magic - wants to ask "how trustworthy the lawyer can be". He 'thinks' about this for 15 minutes - which is 'not difficult'
Lawyer is highly corrupted.
I paralyse with purple medusa - will use the snake to make memories gone.
Put on choker of truth - Fabien.
Gilbert adds a truth Futhark.
We add beads of truth that burn if he lies.
Look for traps, find locks and safes.

We hide the area.
We release. He is very silent very scared,
How he became the island of the dolls lawyer
He was paid to transfer the title in 2010 and counter date it to 1982. He doesn’t know who asked him. Was done with paper that he burned.
Original title was genuine. Luvia Rosa Allende
Were you expecting an heir. - he had no idea if anyone would come.
Has anyone else come forward to claim - no

How were you paid - cash
Letter - from ?, not legal - burned. First letter had a lot of money. Second letter to pass on the document.
Grandparents estate - contacted anonymously - asked to be public defendant to sell the business.
Letters and cash - to do stuff - corrupt lawyers.
Anatoli Atymev - does this name mean anything - this person seems very interested in me, or Manuel.. has been told to contact him as soon as he found out about me.
We get the number of AA second in command.
Anatoli came to his apartment. Less than a year ago before the publication of the book. Was asking a lot of questions.
Bribed him - lawyer told Anatoli.
If anyone came to question needed to contact.
Anatoli - Russian, Psychopath. Arrived out of nowhere a few years ago. Carved himself a part of Mexico by killing some mafia people and taking over some turf. Second in command used to be 2nd in command to someone else.
He is into prostitution, gambling, drugs. Will kill people himself.
He had not made the connection between the island and my grandparents.
He does not know more than he has told us.
He has just done what he has paid for. He understands there is a bigger plan, but does not understand why.
Knock at door. A young, attractive police man.
Bohemians have a magic called 'Harmony'
Escobar looks in harmony - policeman has Black-moon - I suggest he is undead.
Fabien calls astromance (after a 1 fail from gilbert). What is the worst case scenario if we open the door.
"The worst case scenario is that if we attack him, and we attack him in a way that makes his superior think we are a real threat"
Gilbert goes to the door as the Lawyer. He looks at us - looks past to the office, then looks at him.
Make him forget. Clean up and head out to the cop.
Meet the cop. Get in the car and go for a short ride and arrive at 8pm at a very fancy mansion.

# Side story: off to the palace and Escobar's Inner Astral

## Wednesday, 11 March 2015 - Alexi, Gilbert & Sarah hunt for Alexi's past with Xochiquetzal's aid

Alexi and Gilbert are still in the Inner Astral for a short time but have split from Escobar and Fabien.

Alexi finds the clue of a creature where the focus is in the crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp at the Place de St. Laurent in Paris. Alexi gets his melody and knows that it must be conjured in the crypt. The catacomb is empty. Alexi plays the melody.

He sees a ghostly tall shadow stopping at different skulls. She solidifies as she walks. She is the Cryptic Mind. She is reading info from the skulls. Those who conjure her can ask three questions. Alexi asks the following 3 questions:

1. Who are you?

I am the Cryptic Mind. I am here to help you. A ghostly skull appears and flips into a lyre. It flips again and becomes a cube. On each facet it is a person then a Bohemian then lots of flips and images. It stops and forms an image. She is a creature who was created by a selenim. The summoning music encodes who created her when she is summoned. She collects bits of info from those around her and puts them together to form a picture. Her creator had her focus hidden by a Bohemian so only someone who is a friend of a Bohemian can find her focus. She can only be conjured under ground. Each time the Cryptic Mind is conjured, she is created anew and must piece together all information again from those around her. This includes information about her own identity. It is a courtesy to ask her who she is so that she can divine her own identity before answering two more questions.

2. Who am I (Alexi)?

Alexi sees his grandmother, a butterfly, Paris, etc. It stops and he knows that he really doesn’t know who he is. He is definitely the fruit of an intentional process but we don’t know the process. His memory has been modified. Mais was very involved in the process. Very probably, Alexi is part of a big master plan in a deception. We have all been left a thread to unravel who we really are. Mais is Alexi’s thread to follow his way back to his identity. His grandparents are not really his grandparents. He is not Alexi physically. His thread is El Mariposa. The golden quipu is some kind of knowledge that has been kept for Alexi. To unleash or get access, he must find Xochiquetzal to find Tlaloc to find Mais. The Russian is not going to be one of the steps in his research. He must look for someone else looking for the quipu. The other older selenim/god who is hosting us is not part of our quest but is supportive.

3. Who is Gilbert?

He is a nephalim that has been closely acquainted with the Rose + Cross and has decided to incarnate into a human called Gilbert who is a member of a breeding program possibly with the intention of destroying breeding program with the help of Rose + Cross. This was done as a side project while he was needing a new simulacrum. He has voluntarily lost all of his memory while keeping a thread via Frederich who is part of Rose + Cross. This is an unusual ally to pick. Gilbert’s nephalim didn’t trust Fizz enough to tell him more than that he was coming. Gilbert probably knew Fizz at some level which means that Fizz is keeping a lot of information from us. Xora has also been keeping a lot of information from us. They are the ones keeping us woven together. According to them we need to find all the fragments of Astree because we are bound to them and also bound to Fizz. Fizz is one of us but has not removed his memory. We need to go through the same paths as Astrid. Because she had all her memories, the experienced destroyed her. We need to go through the same path without all we know and this might allow us to survive. Frederich is currently in an akasha that we are familliar with. Gilbert had visited it with him. Frederich and Gilbert worked in Akashas together.

We snap out of the inner astral so that we can conjur the Cryptic Mind to ask about Sarah.

We go into the basement of the mansion to conjure the Cryptic Mind for Sarah. Sarah uses the Hive Mind to join us all.

Alexi conjurs the Cryptic Mind. She appears. He asks the following three questions:

1. Who are you?

*See above*

2.  Who is Sarah?

Sarah is a suicidal musician who is now the simulacrum of Cybele. Cybele was a nephilim with a reputation for being a powerful nephilim who made artifacts and hoarded them. She is a golden dragon metamorph. She fucked up drastically in the past making a situation so bad that the Myst Weaver put a curse on her as well as others forcing them to only be awaken at the same time from their stases. When she was in Ireland, she was involved with Lugh and finding the selenims. They stole an artifact from the head of the selenim they were fighting. She experimented on it and it went bad and contaminated many nephelim. James put the blade in his core saving everyone. Cybele was condemned to her stase for 500 years but someone who probably wasn’t Lugh trapped her in limbo so she couldn’t be woken for 2000 years. She apparently discovered Futhark. She was the only nephalim able to master it. She has gone insane from her imprisonment. To deal with her insanity, she was wiped clean. That has shuffled her element (earth) and now she is moon. Her mind wipe happened in the kabbalah where Fizz was present as well as Astramance. Fizz briefed Sarah on who she was and put her into our path. Her thread is the Myst Weaver. The person holding Cybele’s memory is James but she needs to speak with the Myst Weaver to find her true story. Sarah’s nemesis is from the time of the Myst Weaver curse and holds the orchalcum shard. She might be one of the 12 others under the curse.

3. Where should we go looking for Xochiquetzal?

Her name is Gabrielle Bayardo at the Casa de Xochiquetzal.

We decide to go to the Casa de Xochiquetzal and donate money to the house. We are welcomed in by an elderly lady. When we ask to see Gabrielle, we are made to wait in the waiting room for a while. Gilbert goes into Ka sight. There is nothing abnormal about the building. The fields are weird and rigid and unpleasant but this is normal for Mexico.

Alexi does a localisation which lets him visualize any corpse within 80m. He doesn’t detect any.

We are taken into her office. It is a bleak room like a Spanish nunnery.  Behind the desk is a dramatic widow all dressed in black lace. She welcomes us and asks us to sit. Alexi offers a large donation. She thanks Alexi and asks what he wants. Alexi says he is looking for Mais and Xochiquetzal. She asks who Alexi is. He says he doesn’t really know and that only Mais can actually answer that. She wants to know what his connection is with Mais the Aztec Goddess of women who die in childbirth. She says “Are you doing a paper on ancient Aztec culture?” Alexi explains that we believe she is Xochiquetzal. So Alexi takes off his charm showing himself. We all expose pentacles. She asks what brings younglings to her office. She wants to know why we need Mais. Alexi explains that he needs to find Mais to learn about himself.

She asks if he is new born. Alexi explains his past and that his memories are gone.

She does not know where Mais is. Only Tladloc knows where Mais is. She does not know where he went. Tladloc was an artist under the name “Diego Rivera” so we should look up his art. When we find him, Alexi should tell him that he is rude and she is not going to go looking for him. He knows where to find her.

Sarah asks when she was born. 200AD. She was born in northern Peru.

She wants to know why Mais would be interested and what prompted us to find her. There are powerful Selenims around. We are bound to meet them if we travel around. She wants to know if we are working for a Russian friend which we deny. She says that some other people are looking for Mais and wondered if we are following the same trail.

She directs us to look at Le Fuente de Tlaloc.

We thank her and leave.

We go back to the mansion for the evening.

## Thursday, 12 March - Tlaloc's water realm

We head to the Fuente de Tlaloc. It is at the end of an underground river. Diego Rivera painted the pool. Gilbert looks in Ka sight and sees some foci in the paintings. Overall the paintings are all connected to the fields. Gilberts studies the foci to determine what they are. The part that is most woven into the fields is the one with the man.

Gilbert takes photos of the foci.

The painting on the floor of the pool contains a map of the local river system. One item stands out as different in the river system. It is a frog. We guess this might lead us to Tlaloc.

The frog marks the location of Cenote Esmeralda.

We head for the Cenote Esmeralda in Alexi’s sea plane. We arrive in the evening and stay at a hotel. We take a tour of the TajMa Ha. The legends say that the Mayans used to send their youth into the cenotes. They could not go further than Esmeralda. They had to wait and listen. If the call for the gods was heard clearly, they could dive with the gods and join them in their kingdom. Divers have been sent to find that there is no pocket of air anywhere in the underground water.

Gilbert goes into Ka sight. The fields here are lot less oppressive. The earth and water fields are strong. There is light under the water but he can’t see what it is. There is a gentle current of water but the current of water KA is flowing towards the light.

Gilbert casts a spell to find an akasha door. Although he does not detect an actual door, there is a pull to the light.

Gilbert casts a spell to use the dolphin sonar vision. There is a tunnel that has a perpendicular smaller tunnel branching out. The light is coming from that perpendicular tunnel.

We decide to hire scuba gear to do a night dive after hours. We return to break in. Sarah uses a spell to open the gate.

Gilbert checks Ka sight to check everything and the light is still here. We are all using magic to help see and we have torches.

Sarah goes first, Gilbert second, Alexi third. We follow the light. After 20m, we arrive into another cenote. It is very beautiful but where none should be. Gilbert uses a spell to see if we are in an akasha. We are not in an akasha but something is off. There is a door but no sun-ka. We are in an elemental kingdom most likely a water kingdom. It is all very pleasant and peaceful.

There are a lot of tunnels. Some are small some are huge. Some have furniture. It is a network of cenotes. One looks like an alchemy lab. We find a lovely one with furniture. Sitting there is a very ugly man that is half frog. He is very aware of our arrival.

Alexi approaches him and asks if he is Tlaloc. He is. He welcomes us. He introduces himself as the God of Rain. Alexi tells him his past. Tlaloc says Alexi is not a new Selenim. Alexi is at least a few centuries old according to Tlaloc. He is surprised that Alexi remembers his simulacrum’s knowledge. We give him full disclosure.

For some reason Alexi is bound to XochiPili (Mariposa) and Mais. He had not heard about a project by them. He is confused because he is not an enemy. He knows that Mais asked him to guard the door to a quest. The door to the akasha is in his home. He is waiting for any selenim who wants to go on a quest.

He gives Alexi an abacus. Each gold stone is 10 points. Each black stone is 1 point.

He puts us on to the **Sun Trail**. He isn’t sure what the goal of the quest is. He thinks it might be for Alexi’s knowledge.

## 11 March - 12 March: Dot points of a Selenim

### 11 March

 My face appears - flips. The face of my grandmother - flip - butterfly - Paris - etc fragments more etc. Then stops.
What I know is I don't know who I am. Whether I was created or born or whatever - I was the fruit of an intentional process. She knows that I have been lied to and my memory has been modified. Very likely Mais was involved in the process. She knows that very probably I am part of a bigger master plan of deception. All have been lied to/given partial information. But been given a thread to unravel. Mais is probably the person in charge of my thread.
 Need to find:
 Where should we go looking for Xochiquetzal?
 Ushered into her office - think spanish nunnary. White walls, dark furniture. Metal fileing cabinates on the side. Paintings on the walls. Saints etc.
 Xocqetzal was born North of Peru - 200AD.

### 12 March

 We make it to the door of the Sun Trail quest. The knowledge of Mais and Xochi.

summary:

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Wednesday: visited xochiquetzal; cebele reveal

Thursday: fountain

Friday: cenote in the evening: followed to find Tlaloc’s kingdom

## Saturday 14th March 2015

### Tlaloc guides us to an akasha

Mais asked him (Tlaloc) to host the entrance to an akasha in his kingdom. Sun trail designed for selenims that are keen to explore Mais’s heritage. Tlaloc guides us through tunnels and cenote and suddenly opens to the outdoors and there is a forest in front of us. Gilbert recommends to Tlaloc to go see Xochiqutzal. He bids us adieu.

Escobar and Fabien exited the inner astral. They are both here but Escobar is struggling to interact with people so he will tag along.Alexi plays a melody on his flute. Cryptic mind: Can only be done underground. Fabien hiveminded everyone.

### Cryptic mind:

1. **Who is Escobar?**
	* Bohemian
	* Rom
	* Historian
	* Being lied to by his family
	* Bound to his cousin (Kiwano) in ways that he doesn't understand but others in his family do and they are not telling him
	* He may have a link to the Mistweaver - not a clear relationship but the name resonates with his culture
	* Very versed in history and secret history, minor arcanas, major arcanas - like wheel of fortune and the strength. Rose + cross minor arcana
	* Tells stories which alters perceptions and behaviours
	* Divination (true) - about the future.
	* (Sun-ka divination is about what is) not about Escobar
	* His magic relies on something (source) but he is hiding it from us.
	* He cannot travel through astral planes as he told us. Cannot travel using mandalla as he told us - he misunderstood.
	* No siblings
	* He didn’t know he had a cousin until he bumped into him in the inner astral.
	* Dark inner secret between mother and her sister. They also share an inner astral. Grandfather and her uncle also share and inner astral.
2. **Who is Fabien?**
	* Human: no hidden bits
	* Depressed loner
	* Nephilim: old - willingly joined a group of other immortals to unravel what happened to the Astre entity
	* Anchor - white-haired man that probably lives in Australia
		+ White-haired man is a magical entity - who may be a nephilim that reached agartha or a kabbala creature, powerful dragon effect, more than your average nephilim
		+ Elemental creature
		+ Does not approve of this quest - knows about it but he’s respecting his wish not to tell him about it. He is probably holding the box with Fabien's memory not Fizz,
		+ He has a longer history with Fabien than history between Fabien and Fizz
	* Adele moved into Fabien. Working with Fizz and knew what was going on then the explosion happened and Rachid became Fizz and Adele became Fabien. Must’ve known what was going on before the explosion. Carefully planned after memory wiped to regain abilities. (Pentacles are the sum of all knowledge - wipe memory - wipes pentacle.)
	* *To know more about Fabien's true identity need to research Adele’s history*
3. **Alexi wants to know what the connection to the Japanese woman? What does he know about her?**
	* She's a selenim - powerful, female.
	* Looks like your grandma
	* Not ready for you to see her
	* Memory in your head used her likeness?
	* Emotionally connected - was Alexi's tether and has his memory
	* Is she Mais? Stands to reason. Cihuateteo - goddess of woman who dies in childhood
	* This would mean Alexi is El Mariposa aka Chin in a different body

### The Sun Trail Akasha

The Sun trail was created by Mais. She told Tlaloc that "when a selenim asks about her" then Tlaloc was to lead them to the door. A selenim (Mais) linked this akasha to an elemental kingdom (apparently this is an important fact!)

**Note:**When you take an item into an Akasha that doesn’t align (with the theme/spirit of the akasha) then that item goes back to its elemental state/building block - clothing (suit might change into basic linen) and phone/gun (into a lump of metal) etc…

Go through the door: there's a moist lush forest. Ka-sight is much the same in the akasha but a little more pure.

Localisation spell to find quipu?

### Find a Mexican-like village

Wonder through the forest - reach a village. Old time Mexican village. Stone pyramid, huts of mud and thatch, bright coloured clothing and baskets etc. As soon as the locals see us they are pleased - especially pleased to see the nephilims - they give us food and clothing and they treat us like gods. They believe nephilims are gods because we are pale.

An older man - Apo - walking with his llama comes up to us and asks what we are doing here. We seek knowledge about Mais. He doesn’t know Mais or Cihuateteo (a strong goddess) - he doesn’t know her by name but knows a goddess about women who died in childbirth . She is dark and moody and is somewhere in the olmec realm. He protects them - does his job.

### We meet Keakan - Selenim version of a Kaim in an akasha

Keakan is the god that protects the village and lives in the temple. We go in to the pyramid to talk to him. Simple temple, alter with crusted blood. Apo goes into the room and Alexi follows - it's a rectangle made of greystone, has engravings and some gold here and there - not much. Apo introduces us and mentions we’re gods from far far away and asking about the goddess. We can feel there is a presence - like a dark cloud hiding in the shadows. The creature is made of moon when seen in ka-sight. Selenim version of a Kaim in an akasha. He’s wondering how dare we... nephilims what are we doing here? He asks Alexi if he needs help? Alexi tells him we are friends. He warns him that nephilims are liars.

### We each take a gold coin

He does not know much about our quest, all he knows about the sun is there are symbols all around the temple and coins in the walls. Little holes with coins and when you touch them they fall out. We each take one. Looks like a sun made of gold. Each coin is the same.

### Apo takes us to another village/akasha

Apo welcomes us at the back of the temple. He wants to cross a river to another village we help him take his jaguar, cactus and llama. We solve the riddle. We go in a boat to the next village/akasha. Suddenly we are not on the river anymore. There is a golden thread pulling the boat forward - as we get close to the ball of amber we are suddenly back on the river and we arrive at the end of the river in the ocean and beside what is a native village.

### Human Templars on 2 galleons are killing locals on shore

Two massive galleons also milling about with people. Our boats stop on a sandbar. The villagers are very excited by seeing all the gods. The boats look like the real deal just really big. The villagers give us food and clothing. They are all very eager to welcome us. Galleons open fire on the villagers - the boats reach the shore and the spaniards are killing all the villages on shore. Io notices they all have templar logos on them - they are all humans. Travellers. Boat is radiating sun-ka.

### We flee to a nearby cave in the forest

A villager takes us to a cave in the forest, she can’t go further. Fabien summons the Hide it kabbala creature and gets 20, hides entrance to the cave. At the centre is a metal drum with 2 metal sticks. The drum only resonates when you follow your own rhythm. Alexi plays to the rhythm of his pulse. The walls crack slightly and start spinning, they are made of circular pieces and the rock crumbles off and reveals gold. As they spin the symbols on them form a map of the akasha. The map is now on Io’s compass and disappears and the spinning walls stop and this closes the entrance and reveals another pathway. Gilberts summons Gyran to record the map. In ka-sight nothing around to see. Walk through tunnels in the dark but we can somehow see. Can hear a large rumble and we can see light ahead.

### Out of the cave onto a cliff edge

We come out on a cliff with a raging river in the canyon below. The river flows to the right, wind is howling to the left, rocks can be seen in the river. Theres' a tiny ledge that goes left against the flow of the river. Alexi uses spider-hands, Fabien gives each one gecko juice for increased grip (FAGI). Role on agility goes well for all of us. We are making our way down the ledge. Go along the canyon until ledge becomes a path.

### We've arrived at another village and enjoy their Moon-fire ceremony

The river opens up into a lake on the side is a village with a beautiful temple. We head there… welcomed again. We ask about the temple  - temple of the moon. Chimalca is the chieftan of this big village. She welcomes us. She asks what bringing us here? She tells us the Moon fire ceremony is on tonight and we can come along if we like. The moon sets things on fire. They have big mirrors and they angle one towards the moon and reflects into the second and then a third and after a moment the wood it’s reflected on catches fire. Happens every full moon. We stay and watch.

### A galleon is on its way and we try spells to sink it or slow it down

In the morning everyone in the village is a little frazzled and we hear people call out in surprise. Down in the canyon there is a galleon. We ask the chieftan if we can use the mirrors, advised this will not work - only works with moonlight We try spells to make holes in the sails or the hull of the ship. We want to create a "door" into the sails/hull. Took a number of rolls to get it right but when we did, it didn’t work.

### Moon mirrors altered with golden coins - burn the galleon!!!

Quick tour of the temple, the three mirrors of the moon are stored there, made of silver and they have a symbol of a moon, the coins fit perfectly in the centre of them. There are symbols on them that are the elements. Earth, wind, fire, moon, water. We pull the mirrors outside and now the beams are narrowed and controlled and towards the galleon. The sails burn and the boat goes backwards and crumbled on the rocks.

### Stairs revealed in the temple

There’s a carving of a condor in flight (with a hole in its chest) in the temple…. Maybe try the mirrors on that now. When we remove the coin it comes with the moon symbol so now we have the full set. As we put one of those into the hole in the centre the walls crumbles and it reveals stairs leading inside the pyramid. We go down the stairs, Chimalca does not follow.

At the bottom is a room. One side different carvings on panels on the other side is a mummy with a jade mask on its face. In ka-sight it looks like another door to an akasha.

## Back to the Sun Trail

Recap:

* Mais (woman in Japan aka Cihuateteo) is in a fusional relationship with Tlaloc (nephilim). Tlaloc would know where to find Mais. By following Tlaloc’s Sun Trail - deciphered symbols in a painting of fountain - went to cenote. Akasha made by Mais/Tlaloc is made of elemental magic - no sun-ka like a normal akasha. So this one was made by a nephilim. Mais asked Tlaloc to welcome any selenim that wanted to know more about the akasha and this quest.
* Aztec type akasha  - templars on boats, used mirrors to burn them and sink them.
* We collected the coin of the sun, collected the moon pendant. They link together to form…
* Went down stairs - symbols on the wall, and on the other side of the room is an old mummy with a jade mask.

**Fabien deduces that there is more information in the room.**

Alexi goes into ka-sight: Around the wall is a line of sun-ka - so it is a door.

Escobar sees an opening into another akasha

Alexi: inspecting jade mask - made of jade with glass eyes.

Fabien: removes the mask from the mummy and looks through the glass eyes - can see little inscriptions in the glass - appears in front of us:

> "As the night becomes day, the snakes curl together, the dead find their peace, and the condor flies."
>
>

### Solving the riddle of symbols on the wall

* Its dusk: we move the squares; put the snakes together, the skulls to the floor and the bird up to the sky, then we hear cogs and door opens into a different building. We go to step into the building and suddenly we're in our akasha boat.
	+ Floating above a grassy sea - in front of us is a bubble of amber - we are pulled towards it and we reach it we walk into a new temple.
	+ All nephilims have a ball of amber - compass - a tiny representation of every akasha we’ve ever been in can be seen in it.
	+ We have reached a sea shore which is the 2nd level of an akasha - this also means magic will have 2 points of difficulty. Less chance of contamination - less orichalcum too.

### Arriving at a 2nd level akasha - In a crumbling Temple, 3 people above us in a room

* We are in a crumbling temple - find a room where the ceiling had caved in.
* there's a door in front but its blocked by rubble from the ceiling.
* 3 People are standing above the ceiling and looking at us.
	1. Inca woman. Name: ?
	2. oldish conquistador ("professor" has 2 guns and whip that’s made with orichalcum) Name: professor
	3. warrior beefy inca - has a bludgeon. Name: Kuruga

* The woman (1) is beautiful - looks at us like we're dirt and says "We don’t have time for this riff raff." They leave Kuruga behind. (1) and (2) are human; but (3) is not.

* Fabien tries spell to modify wall into a door, but cannot roll high enough.
* Gilbert does the roll and gets an 18. To use earth magic need rocks/walls as a substitute. If we succeed great but if we fuck it up might use another earth substituye like the floor. God rolls a 15 to see if it would succeed - needed a 14. Lucky. Gilbert uses the wall as his substitute. Creates an opening in the door where the rubble was, we scamper through. As soon as Kuruga sees us, he runs after us.
* Gilbert wants to transform the bludgeon into mud. He tries a second level spell, but fails on the first roll.
* Alexi does a call of the purple madusa to paralyse the beefy inca. Rolled a 20. He is now paralysed.
* Gilbert rolls a 19 to transform the bludgeon to mud - substitution: Failed therefore something else disappeared??.

### Outside the Temple - follow mountain crest to a fort

* Outside the building we are in a mountainous area outside of the ruins of this temple. In front of us there is a path on the crest of a mountain. We follow it. In front we see a fort… native built.
* People ahead with bows and arrows. They have seen us but are not aggressive. They are locals. We are welcomed warmly. 25 soldiers welcome us.
* Their commanders name is Kraka. He welcomes us to the fort of the eagle.
* They stop invaders from getting to the mountain village.
* Gilbert asks if they have seen others going to the mountain village. There was one, she claimed to be a priestess but couldn’t have been since she went the wrong way.
* We exit the fort and walk along the crest of mountains and loop around back to the same fort.
* What else is here? 2 doors; one habitation building, 4 walls

### Templars are Approaching

* Alexi in Ka-sight can see sun-ka in the distance coming towards us. 12 or 13 people coming towards us. The soldiers have closed the door of the fort to protect themselves. They are walking very slowly.
* Gilbert observes them with a spyglass spell -  succeeds. Substitutes some water from a bowl. 13 conquistadors dragging a cannon. The soldiers try to lock the door but the bar to lock it is missing - it disappeared when we needed an earth substitute earlier.

### Firerunner - gunpowder explosion

* Fabien: sigil for kabbala creature: FireRunner, one level higher required for the distance. Succeeds with the contract. She will run straight for the gunpowder barrel. She runs and creates a trail of fire. The templars scramble for their guns, they try shoot but miss. She gets the barrel and it explodes - cannon rolls down the mountain and there is flesh and bones everywhere. 3 templars run the opposite direction and the rest are dead or dying.
* Alexi disappears to feed on them.
* Kraka thanks us and he is very grateful.

### Wooden Bridge Riddle

* We take the path to the left as suggested and we lead to a canyon - as it gets narrow to a wooden bridge/plank leads to a device. The device has gears and balls to turn a cog. (Click the picture below to enlarge)

* Escobar tries to add 2 and fails - falls into fountain.
* we realise it turns smaller and larger diameter cogs.
* Fabien succeeds by putting one ball in the left one.

### Exit to Machu Picchu

* A passage opens behind the waterfall - we exit on the other side of the mountain - Machu Picchu at the time when it was still used. Festive and beautiful.

* Welcomed by the children and people, they lead us to the leader of the village: Viracocha and the priest: Papacamayo.
* Welcomed in front of the sun temple. Prove your worth if you want to go into the temple.

### Quiz with sticks and triangles

* 6 sticks to make 4 triangles
* Solved by Alexi: made a pyramid.

### 2nd Quiz

* Then the priest draws 9 dots in 3 x 3 matrix
* Draw 4 lines and cross all nine points.
* Gilbert and Escobar solve this.

### Inside the sun temple

* Suns painted on the wall, balcony overlooking the valley.
* Has a time device - sundial there.
* We look around the room and there are two suns one on each side of the wall.
* In ka-sight nothing in the temple.
* Alexi: Listening to pavan - nothing out of the ordinary.

### Sundial inscription

* on the floor is written:

> "When Inti, the burning sun, meets the twin peaks, then will Coyolit, the shining star, be reborn to guide the way. And as the sun leave the arms of the moon to rest on Pachamama’s breast, she will open the door to Tseila, the city of gold”.
>
>

### Unravelling the words:

* The sun sets a beam of light hits the side of a mountain and a green light/reflection is visible on the mountain.
* We follow up the goat track towards the green reflection.
* We come across the same 3 people we met before. They are waiting for us.
* She (Inca women (1)) has a bow aimed at us and he (professor (2)) has 2 guns aimed at us.
* As we get closer (1) tells us to back away - go explore somewhere else.

### Shrinking them

* Gilbert tries to shrink them - he succeeds with the spell, substitute is a water bottle. The water substitute doesn’t work. Gilbert can feel himself dehydrating and the professor and Kuruga shrink down but she does not.
* She has a bright sun core.
* Escobar can see using harmony that she is a dreamer. She’s astral projecting.
* Alexi wants to use a conjuring to make her exit out of this dream. God says this not doable.
* She warns us not to try any spells on us again. Threatens.
* She’s probably of the rose + cross.
* She will shoot us with the bow and arrow if we get any closer.
* Escobar tells her a story - rolls a 20. Tells her that she’s asleep, she suddenly disappears as she realises this is a dream.

### We keep moving along the path.

* Alexi takes the orichalcum whip.
* Fabien steps on both the shrunken men. Gilbert is not amused!!!
* We follow the path to a statue in front of a cliff. It’s Pachamama and we use the medallions on her breast and a door opens.
	+ It’s full of gold but as we step through we’re back on the boat.
	+ We’re adrift - we pull out our compasses. It is a complete map from what we saw near the drums in the cave … it’s a map to the cities of gold.
	+ We go to the city of gold:
		- there and there is one man. Mask of gold. Black robes/hair.
		- Welcomes us to Tseila the city of gold.
		- He asks us if we have sun tokens - he takes them and puts them in his hands and opens them again and there’s 9 of them.
		- Only one is made of gold. We weigh 3 and 3, then we can do 1 and 1… to know which one it is.
		- He tells us that selenim and nephilim can work together to complete the sun trail. We’ve all been given a sun coin - it disappears into our chest but when we think about it, it appears in our hand.

## Sunday, 15 March 2015

### Raul Molina's funeral

We have now finished the Sun Trail and we step out of the akashas and back into the kingdom of cenotes. We give Tlaloc a recap of what happened.

Tlaloc asks us a favour. He has read an obituary and wants us to investigate it so that he doesn’t have to leave his kingdom. The obituary reads as follows:

Raul Molina left us this day. His soul is in need of comfort if it is to awaken to life again. If you too, fear never to awaken to a new life, come join us at the funeral ceremony. Ethernus Funeral Home, Sunday 5pm. “May the path to the upper light open to you, as you reach down to help the fallen”.

He explains that the mention of the fallen is a nephilim trying to get another nephilims attention. The path to the upper light is Agatha. Awakening to another life is to find another simulacrum. A nephilim has died and someone is trying to help him find a new simulacrum. Tlaloc sees it as a cry for help. The funeral home is located in the city of Merida.

We agree to do this for Tlaloc. (Gilbert, Fabian, Sarah and Io.)

We drive to Merida and arrive at midday. The funeral is at 5pm. We decide to gather some information:

1. Who is Raul Molina? We find an article from 3 days ago about a fire in a metalurgic factory at night. A homeless man died: Raul Molina. They do not know what caused the fire. The factory is in one of the industrial suburbs of Merida.
2. Who wrote the obituary? We contact the paper to find out that P. Lewis wrote the obituary.

We head to the factory to check it out. The factory is closed. It is big and ugly. We slip into ka sight and feel that the fire fields are a little agitated.

Fabian opens a door in the wall of the offices. Gilbert checks out the room in ka sight. Nothing seems amiss. Sarah senses that there is no fire plexus in this factory.

We find an area that has been destroyed by fire but has been cleaned up. In ka sight, the fire fields are especially agitated. That could be the source or result of the fire. We don’t really find much of use so we go to the funeral home.

When we arrive, there are two employees. A man at the door welcomes us and points us to where the memorial is being held. A woman is in the room. The coffin is closed.

Gilbert slips into ka sight and sees that all is normal. Both employees are human. They are not Templars (especially because there are no women Templars).

A man in a hat walks into the funeral home. He stops at the door, sees us, and he shifts into ka sight. He rushes at Fabian and grabs his arm and begins to drain his fire ka from his pentacle. Fabian uses his flying needles in defense. He absorbs the magic of the alchemy spell which distracts him from draining Fanian’s pentacle. He grabs something from his pocket and we suddenly feel completely disconnected from the magical fields. Io throws an alchemical ember that bounces off of him. Gilbert tries to shoot at the man. He misses.

The man starts to drain Fabian’s pentacle again. The sprinklers turn on and he flinches and lets go of Fabien. He heads for an exit at the back door to avoid the water. A posh man at the front door calls out and tells us to follow. We follow him. The other man is screaming in anger and the woman employee is screaming in fright. We jump into the posh man’s car and we drive off. He asks if we are all ok and if anyone is wounded.

Fabien’s pentacle is intact. The driver is very attractive. He asks if we are fallen. Fabien sees in ka sight that he is a selenim. Gilbert shows his metamorph. Gilbert thanks him. The posh man apologizes for putting us in danger. He does not know who the attacker is. The posh man’s name is Salambo. He drives us to his place at a motel. He arrived to Merida recently because a friend of his came to Merida from Scotland 2 months ago to investigate something and has been missing for a couple of days. Salambo tried to find him but found his friend’s house burnt--especially in the lab--and found that his friend was in his stasis. He waited for the next elemental day to reincarnate Ephialtes (formerly Raul). They used to live together in Scotland when Ephialtes received news from a friend that something of interest was happening here. When Ephialtes was reincarnated, this man who attaked us at the funeral attacked Salambo immediately, Ephialtes died again and Salambo ran away. Because he is a recent selenim, he has no ability to do anything.

Ephialtes is a very talented alchemist and has created some alchemy that everyone can use. He is very gifted in prime, alchemy and spells. Solambo has a massive box of this alchemy to use. We agree to help Solambo. We are given boxes with a ring of the particular element to control the items in the box. Sarah picks moon, Fabien picks fire and Gilbert picks water.

Sarah calls James to enquire about the man who attacked us. Sarah describes in detail what happened. The only human that would have that sort of ability would be someone from the Mysteries because they are parasites. James isn’t sure who exactly they are or why they attacked us in particular. He could be a dragon effect but they aren’t usually human-shaped. It probably isn’t a selenim because he would have to be very powerful to do that. He may be a powerful kabbalah creature.

We learn from Solambo that when Ephialtes/Charles is in his stase, all is calm. When he is reincarnated, they are attacked. He wants to figure out who the creature is and get rid of him. He has not tried removing the stase. It might be useful to take a look at Charles’ house.

The first time it happened, they were both in Scotland when Charles got a message from a friend named Fiora Calle in Mexico, She told him that she heard of something he would be interested in. Ten days ago, communication suddenly ended. We ask Solambo to set up a meeting with Flora.

He puts us into contact with Flora. She is from the Wheel of Fortune and studies fields. She is located in Yucatan. She found a report about an earthquake in Merida centred in a factory area. She sends us a link to the paper article about it. A nephilim there realised the fields after the earthquake were unnaturally tamed before going back to normal. Because Charles has a dangerous pentacle (a deformity of the pentacle) it was hoped that he might be able to learn more. Charles used to be part of her arcana.

She is unable to explain how we were cut off from our pentacles and didn’t know how to cure it but Temperance could help us. We need to figure out how to figure out what happened to us first. We promise to keep in touch with her. She reminds us that Charles is very fragile.

We thank Flora and head to the earthquake location the next morning.

## Monday, 16 March 2019

### Mary Industries and the Nervometer

We read the article about the earthquake from 7 weeks ago. We have a rough map. Scientists suggest there may have been an underground cave in. Slipping into ka sight doesn’t really show us anything over such a large area. We decide to look into more recent info on the earthquake.

Gilbert contacts the National Seismological Branch of the Geophysics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He asks for any information and scores. They give us the coordinates of the epicentre and it isn’t very deep. There were no aftershocks making them think that there was a cave in but a shallow one.

The coordinates take us a factory that is called Mary Industries which makes cartridges for printers. Gilbert gets Sarah to lube him up with the Chtonic Lubricant to sink into the ground to search for something under the building and finds the building goes two floors under the building. Io places one of her beads and gets a map showing us the way to the sub basement.

Fabien is using deduction to find a senior person in the building (Consuela) so that Sarah can claim to be having a meeting with them. Sarah claims to be a salesperson with her support team to get in.

We all arrive and say we have a meeting with Consuela to buy cartridges. The guard lets us in. We get into the main building and speak to the receptionist. She points us toward Consuela’s office. We sneak downstairs to find a research and development door.

We use the pulse of amnesia to disable the door. We enter the first basement and there are people working down there. Sarah convinces them we are part of an inspection. The man we are speaking to does eventually get suspicious. He does not think we should know about the second level. Sarah uses some of the moon glow powder to make her more seductive giving her an incredible amount of authority. He decides not to get in our way and opens the door to the second basement for us.

We rush into the second basement. The second level is a lab that is very technological. There are 4 people there, one of whom is the CEO Antonio Mary. They are all shocked by our appearance. Sarah gets them to tell us about the burglary. They said it was an accident and that there was minimal damage. The device has been stolen. They paid someone to try and find the device. Sarah gives them a hard time to draw out more info. They hired local thugs. Sarah demands the specs for the device. We learn that they are trying to scan candidate brains and then map it onto the computer. It didn’t work when activated and then there was an earthquake. They did not get a mind map because of the earthquake.We learn that they are attmepting to upload a consciousness. Sarah asks for an inventory of everything that was stolen, the specs and security tapes. She get everything on a hard drive. The research group expects to have the device back within a week. We get their contact info for whom they re supposed to be getting instruction and Sarah gives them a different number to contact: Fiz.

We leave and Sarah calls Fiz to let them know that Fiz’s number has been given as a contact. She explains what to say and what is going on. We make sure that the original contact number is redirected to Fiz.

Fabien takes a couple of hours to go through the hard drives. We learn that Antonio Mary is working on developing a device  called the nervometer to scan a mind and upload it into a digital consciousness. He is trying to do it as part of a larger project called Hiram. He has been working at it for 10 years. He is worried that things aren’t working. The stakeholders are losing interest. The controlling contact uses a codename and they are very secretive. Mary has never met that person. They have been rushing through testing to impress the stakeholder. The latest prototype had an earthquake side-effect. While working on fixing that, a lot of equipment was stolen including the nervometer. The police couldn’t help so he contacted the mafia to find who stole the device. They are close to finding it.

This whole thing definitely involves the arcana. The ordering effect on the fields is an unexpected side-effect of the device.

Real Life 11 October 2019

## Game Day 16 March 2015

Quick Summary

* We all join at the hotel in Merida and figure out the map which points us to the Lines of Nazca.
* Escobar has vision that looks a human was working with an Illuminati and had a devise. A Nephilim stole the device but something happened to cause the fire element to split.
* Io/Escobars mother advises that broken pentacle would be a dragon effect, but have intelligence (that aligns with the fact the machine was designed to empart a psyche into a computer).
* It seems we will need to fight a fire dragon effect with human intelligence
* Also Fabian rolled 1 and had his simulacrum come back again.

A message from God - encourages us to work through the sun trail map.

Alexi leaves the Sun trail to go join the others who are on a mission to help a Nephilim.  He arrives at the hotel room.

Fabian looks at the map in Ka sight.  The map looks like paper.

I come into the room and suggest we lay a Nephilim and Selenim pendant on the map - as it has been for working together.

Alexi and Gilbert put the pendant onto the location.  The map starts radiating light, but nothing more.

We tried different combination - nothing more happened.

Io suggests the centre sun is the x that marks the spot (20 roll)

Escobar uses divinisation.  He goes out to the balcony, with the map. When he brings the map out in the sun, the pendants radiate and burn the map.

(See new map)

It appears to be fold lines - we cut and fold.

The corners fold in to come together and form a map of South America.

It points to Nazca Lines in Peru.

Knowing that these lines have a Nephilim history, Escobar does a ‘Secret History’ to reveal that the area was not heavily claimed by Selenim.  Therefore it could have been something made by Nephilim.

Escobar rolls a General Major Cannon.

Major Arcana of the Star believes that the Nephilim are of extra terrestrial nature and that to reach Agatha is to return to the stars.  Is an Arcana that was mocked until Akanatan turned them into a Major Arcana. Maybe there were not just dreamers. There mission is to attract extraterrestrial beings back to earth or find ways to travel back into space. Were very involved in the American space program.  There centre is in France.

Paths that are open.

* Alexi - Quipu with information

* Map to Nazca

* Inner Astral

* Merida

* All the fragments of Astre

The 4 Nephilims - all they have is Alchemy, when the person attacked they were blocked from the fields.

The Nervometer causes earthquakes. We check, there have been no further earthquakes.

We review the details leading up to the point and believe that Ephialtes was the person who stole the Nervometer.

Fabian goes to role on deduction - 1 - so his simulacrum comes out (again).

Alexi tries to roll to put him to sleep with a Conjur, but does not succeed

Escobar rolls a 20 to ‘tell a story’.  He tells him that everything is fine, a bit of confusion.   Fabian calms down.

Sarah goes to suffuse a rune.  Fails.

Alexi calls the Lament of Sathariel to put Fabian to sleep.

Alexi spends the next few hours reading.

Escobar goes to the balcony to do divination, rolls 20, expert.  Looks to find who stole the Nervometer. He sees a man. You can’t see his face, just an outline.  They have a sun inside them, they appear to be made of glass. They have in their hand a gift, they turn to give it to another outline of a man.  Inside of the second there is a floating pyramid. A third outline, glass man shape. Inside the thirds man is elements roaming around in organised chaos.  The third person runs, then stumbles and breaks. Now there are 2 glass people, one with 4 elements and one with just fire. The fire element grabs the treasure and then disappears.

Summary - Merry is trying to give the treasure to an Illuminati when a Nephelim stepped in (Ephialtas).  To possibilities of the 5 elements to 4 and 1 - One person has fragmented his pentacle, or 5 people were together and one breaks away.

Gilbert calls Fizz and explains the above. Fizz rolls a 1.  Sigh.

Escobar calls his mother to ask.  She says (rolls 20) if he has an unstable pentacle, every time he tries to increase his imitated level which will echo through the fields and cause a dragon effect.   What he describes is a Nephelim who has lost a branch. If a full branch is turned into a creature, it would be more than a dragon effect, it would be much more dangerous.

Io confirms that a dragon effect born from a pentacle could have a human level intelligence, as well as the power level of the pentacle.  He was a fire element of 3.

The dragon effect will be a quite intense dragon, but it could be more powerful.

Call the Cryptic Mind.  Is there a way to locate the Nervometer? - no.  Can we rebuild it? - no. Based on the data, the scientists did not know there would be a magical effect.  Do we know if there was another part? No, it was a prototype.

It was built.  From reading the documents:  The CEO is doing the secret project, working for the secret organisation (Illuminati/synarchy), Working on project Hirim, transferring a human consciousness into a machine.  That the human to machine was a small part of a larger project. Felt that project Hirim was being closed, either because it had succeeded, or it was no longer on the agenda.  He rushed to try and make it work to stay relevant.

Real Life 25 October 2019

## Game Day 17 March 2015

Alexi charters a plane to Orlean to replenish

Can you trap a dragon effect? If he can’t change shape or evaporate - yes.

Sarah questions Astramance about whether she knows any kabbla creatures which will help with the control of dragon effects - in particular controlling or managing a FIRE dragon effect.
Creatures that can create dragon effects
Creatures that can leap out of the water and pull things in
Creatures that can use water to attack
Sarah then realised that she cant use Kabbala at the moment anyway
Sarah is still confused as to why she can communicate with Astramance despite not being able to use magic. This is because she is the one who is using magic to maintain the connection - this implies that she is very powerful.
Nour el Ain can also reach from her Kabbala world and pull us through - making HER very powerful too.
Nour el Ain and Astramance are of the same world

Normally when someone studies Kabbala they need to choose a world to study and then find the gatekeeper to that world and convince them to let you in.
Just because Astramance and Nour el Ain can do what they do does NOT mean that they are the gatekeepers

Sarah asks Fizz why Astramance was present at the time she was awoken
Fiz says its because the Mystweaver asked her to be - he indicated that she would find it interesting and she agreed because she felt a pull or connection with Sarah - the human.
Astramance knows of Cybele but did not ‘know’ her when she was at the height of her powers.

Io and Dragon hunting
Io is a powerful dragon hunter
Has acquired numerous tattoos of dragon claws
Io is present because Fizz asked for her to be
How would Io attack the dragon effect
She would use her water-based tattoos to attack it magically or kill it with physical damage

Alexi went back to Lyon to recharge and while there got some conjuring.

## Game Day: Saturday 20 March 2015

Alexi is in Mexico City while the others are in Merida. We can still only use Futhark and Alchemy.

Alexi is meeting with Mich. He is asking for advice about battling a dragon effect. Mich wants to know what that has to do with the Mafia. He tells Mich that the Mafia will not find what they are looking for. He wants to know how the dragon effect is connected to El Mariposa and is not convinced that he wants to help us.

Alexi explains the connection with Taloc and that we are doing this for Taloc (an old God). This convinces Mich to lend us a 14 year-old named Louis as a sharp-shooter. Alexi also asks for vicious dog skeletons. Mich will try to organise this and, as a Selenim, he asks if it needs to be freshly dead. He also suggests other animals like a lion. Alexi suggests perhaps a parrot or macaw but really wants a dog that can be trained––perhaps a dog used for dog fights..

Meanwhile, the others are working with futhark. Gilbert tries to find Isaz and locates it in a car garage where there is a woman waiting. Gilbert asks the woman why she is upset. She says that she has been stuck there for hours waiting for a part to arrive. She is afraid that the mechanics are waiting for night to rape her or that, at a minimum, they want to cheat her. The meaning of the rune Isa is the rune of ice, immobility, patience, meditation and psychological blocks. Gilbert is able to empathise and gains the rune.

In preparation for the fight with the dragon effect, Sarah and Gilbert infuse Algiz on themselves. Alexi has suffused Jera onto the sharp shooter.

## Game Day: Sunday 21 March 2015

The whole gang meets back up with Alexi and start to suffuse Louis with runes to increase his chances for succuss against the dragon effect. Alexi suffuses Naudhiz onto Louis. Sarah seeks for Ehwaz and succeeds. It takes her to a police car containing two police. The driver has the rune. It is the rune of progression, steps, teamwork, loyalty and trust. We all empathise and gain the rune.

## Game Day: Monday 22 March 2015

We continue to suffuse runes onto Louis. Sarah suffuses Naudiz onto Louis. Gilbert suffuses Jera onto him.

To help Gilbert empathise to gain the rune Naudhiz, Alexi conjures Micefael. Alexi tries to create a habitus. Alexi brings up his natural state of mistrust and Micefael connects Alexi to Gilbert. Gilbert sees a tall dark creature surrounded by shadows and that has skinny wings ending in black hands. The hands link Alexi and Gilbert. Gilbert feels bitterly that no one is trustworthy or reliable. The only one that can be trusted to do anything right is himself. Gilbert can now empathize to get the rune Naudhiz.

Alexi suffses Naudhiz onto Louis. Sarah suffuses Naudhiz on Louis. Gilbert suffuses Naudhiz onto Louis. Gilbert suffuses another Naudhiz on Louis. Alexi suffuses another Naudhiz onto Louis.

## Game Day: Tuesday 23 March 2015

Sarah speaks with Astramance and explains what is happening. Sarah asks if she can help restore Ephialte’s pentacle. Astramance does not know for sure that she can do it and is keen on trying it out; however, there will be no contract meaning that Astramance has to take all responsibility. She is willing to consider it at her own free will. She still needs Sarah to bind herself to it in some way. She wants Sarah to bind herself to Astramance’s world. Sarah considers it.

## Game Day: Tuesday 24 March 2015

Real Time: 22 Nov 2019

For the fight:

Sharpshooter.

Skeleton dogs.

Alchemy available.:

Distance controls - access to machines.

Hidden tide - controls water.

Blades and current - blades in water

Sarah decided to bind herself to Astramance’s world; therefore, Astramance will hopefully help put Ephrialte’s pentacle back together if we succeed in killing the dragon effect. The gang is infusing Escobar with the futhark luck while Gilbert looks for a fire nexus that is very near to lots of water.

Escobar gets Sarah to show the Jeran Rune and sympathises with the cycle element (Bohemians follow the cycle of travelling). Granted by God.

We need to do the following:

1. Suffusing Luis - DONE
2. Finding a fire nexus - DONE
3. Find a simulacrum - DONE
4. Fight dragon effect - DONE
5. Get Astramance’s help - DONE
6. Cure the nephilims - DONE

Suffusing Luis

We succeeded in suffusing Luis with 21 Jera and 4 Naudhiz in a few days.

Finding a Fire Nexus

Escobar locates a plexus at the coast near Progreso in the brackish water near hotel constructions.

Finding a simulacrum

Escobar uses divination to see a street in a dodgy, poor area. This is not enough info to go on and we must wait for another day to try again. Escobar tries the next day and he sees a little shop like 7-11. He sees a woman with worlds opening behind her. We find the shop using Google and we get the address. We immediately go there.

Alexi calls The Lament of Sathariel to embroider a pillowcase to make a person fall asleep. He succeeds. The pillowcase only works for one night. We will wait to collect the simulacrum.

Sarah/Cybel is a bubbling cauldron of frustration.  A storm waiting to erupt barely controlling the fact that she is very violent.  She has no time for niceties.

On Sunday, Escobar devines that there is an Apollo like person that is at a paintball place who has a rune that Sarah needs. Alexi finds someone that has the rune using ka-sight. Alexi, Gilbert and  Escobar roll to learn the meaning of the rune.

**Fight Dragon Effect**

We go to find the simulacrum. We find her near the shop sleeping with a tinfoil hat. Alexi bags her and puts her into our van.

We go to the plexus on the coast. There is a beach and then the lakes. There is a hotel being built there. The pools have been corrupted and polluted. Luis is instructed to find a good vantage point. Gilbert describes what the dragon effect looks like.

We plan to reincarnate Ephiates and then leave the plexus to go nearer clean water.

Alexi plans to use his skeleton dogs, Gilbert plans to use his alchemy (the hidden tide and blades in the current). Escobar and Sarah and Io will spectate. Alexi’s bird is acting as a lookout to warn us of people approaching. Sarah notifies Astramance of the plan.

Solumbo places the stase next to the plexus and awakens Ephialtes into the simulacrum. Solumbo removes the pillow case. Escobar and Solumbo explain to E what is happening and that she must come with us and trust us.

We run to the beach and Gilbert tosses his hidden tide into the ocean. E watches Gilbert and wonders what is up with the alchemy. Solumbo explains what is happening. E is in shock about his cruxim and lack of pentacle. E looks at us in Ka sight and is surprised by the group helping her. Her appearance is shifting and the metamorph is beginning to appear.

30 min later, the bird alarm goes off. A car parks in front of the building site and a black man starts walking our way. It is the dragon effect. Alexi signals to Luis to shoot. The futhark we suffused now comes into play.

His head is hit by a bullet but it isn’t as violent as hoped. The dragon effect takes the damage of the gun. He crumples on all fours and then rises and continues toward us. Escobar divines that more than half of his life is gone. Gilbert pushes the water toward the DE and throws in the blades as it goes by. The DE takes damage but continues coming toward Gilbert. Luis takes another shot using the rest of the futhark. He misses.

Alexi calls the Unbidden Tusks to attack the DE. It cannot be dodged or weathered unless the creature is made visible. The attack works and kills the DE. Gilbert pulls back the water. Io tried to collect the essence of the DE but failed. The DE is now about to evaporate. Astramance leads E out of the water. A touches the DE and the DE deflates and evaporates. E suddenly looks like a deformity has been removed. His pentacle has been fully healed. His only mission had been to fix his pentacle and has finally succeeded (although still a little contaminated).

The simulacrum now has very sharp teeth. Her eyes have vertical slits. She looks like a large, aggressive cat (lion/panther).

Astramance takes Sarah on a long walk along the beach.

The nervometer is found in the clothing and it has been locked into the on position. By turning off the nervometer, we regain our magic. All the alchemy is given back to E.