Adventure Diary USA

## 27 FEB 2015 Friday

### Gilbert's Activity over the past few days

Over the past few days, Gilbert investigates the happenings in the US. He determines 4 possible areas in which to gain more information upon arrival:

1. Locals
2. Army
3. Journalists
4. Anti-Cult Movement (ACM)

Use of the kabbala increases Gilbert's Netzah up one level. The Red Swirl means Gilbert's enkaibated is down 2 levels.

### Visit with Gaston

We decide to use Alexi’s the Spirit of the Pack to find more information about Harriet Woodberry. The results lead us to believe that Harriet is dead.

We try to use Alexi's "Blue flames of the last moments" to determine if Rosamund (Keance) is alive by reading the behaviour of the fireflies. We are unsuccessful.

We decide to go to the US. We have to go to Paris and contact Gaston (Justice) who will put us in touch with Vatra.

Gaston says that the official story is that the military had reason to believe that the vessels were killing themselves and they tried to stop them. The army claims they set themselves on fire in the big hall. All are dead.

In the US, the Templars are organised and mainly in control. The army is an arm of the Templars acting against the Vessels. The events at the Vessels farm has created a PR problem. The army is trying to make amends and smooth over the scandal. The army is in Lafarge trying to look good.

Justice and Pope both have agents there working under the cover that they are from the UN to investigate what happened. Vatra is in a simulacrum named Richard Nduhuura**.** The Pope woman’s name is Ferida Hadin. They have to be careful not to draw the attention of the Templars. The story from the locals is based on what the newspapers say. They believe it is fake news. There is a group of therapists from the Anti-Cult Movement (ACM) that is in town to help the locals. The farm is off limits and heavily guarded. The ACM is assumed to be the Mystes.

### We travel to the US

We travel to Paris then Minneapolis then to Lacross then take a bus. A few doors away from Phil & Deb’s Tap, the envoys from the UN have established themselves at the village hall. Major Reinhart’s office is at the Police Station but the soldiers are across from the Methodist Church.

## 28 FEB 2015, Saturday

### Arrival

We get three rooms at the River Valley Motel on South Bird Street next to the post office and behind the village hall. All the journalists are staying here.

The guy at the hotel tells us that there was a massive ritual suicide by a cult. He will not talk about it. There were hundreds that killed themselves. They used to go to town like normal people but they weren’t normal. They were on a compound and they all got raped everyday. They worshipped Satan but behaved normal when in town. Now everyone knows what was happening because of the journalists.

### Magical search for Keance

We try to locate Rosamund again but fail.

Gilbert goes to explore while Alexi plays the music for another try. He recognises a lot of the people but they don’t recognise him.

Gilbert returns and Alexi succeeds. We try to find Keance again. The fireflies fly southwest. We follow them. We go walking across Silver Street and then reach the Kickapoo River and cross it. The keep going and reach the river again.

We decide to drive south for half an hour to Bosstown to try again but the direction the fireflies go indicates that Keance is quite far away.

We learn that the corpses of the soldiers were taken back to the morgue of Fort McCoy an hour to the north. There is no mention of the corpses of the locals. This makes people believe there was nothing left of the bodies. We realise that the reports in the newspaper change from nuanced opinions to a united front of what happened. There is a conspiracy theory that the military attacked first.

We go back to the hotel and slip into Ka-sight to see if anyone is under a spell. There are 4 journalists in the city. One man and three woman. Gilbert slips into Ka-sight and finds nothing amiss.

We don’t get much info from the journalists at the hotel.

That night Gilbert looks for soldiers at the park but comes up bust.

## 1 MAR 2015, Sunday

### Gilbert finds family

We go to the Free Methodist Church. At the church, there is one little kid about 10 years old that goes total Ninja to get our attention. The service ends. Gilbert slips out to look for the kid. Fabien goes into Ka-sight to scan the room. Fabien sees two nephilims. One is a young black dude and the other is a central American woman. It is Richard and Ferida.

Gilbert finds the kid a bit away from the church. Gilbert goes to say Hi. He learns that he is cousins with the kid, Arthur. He takes Gilbert to see his grandmother 2 blocks away. Grandma is a 60 year old butchy dyke and doesn’t seem surprised that the kid brought Gilbert. She isn’t as trusting as the child but is surprised that it is Gilbert. Her name is Kimberley Woodberry. The child is not a Woodberry. She is now Kimberley Folds. Kimberley had a daughter who rejected the Woodberries. They are away so Kimberley is taking care of Arthur.

Kimberley says events did not happen as the newspapers said. The articles make no sense. The army has been putting a lot of pressure on the locals to be quiet. One of the locals trying to sue the army was framed for drugs. People got the hint and are afraid.

The army supposedly came because something was happening but the army came before there was any sign of anything happening. Some saw a scout go through the city before the shooting. An hour or so later, there were big trucks going through the city. More shooting. Then the fire. Gilbert is the only apparent survivor. She would like Gilbert to claim ownership of the property and watch the shit-storm.

## 1 MAR 2015, Sunday

### Speaking to Vatra and determining the next move

Sarah arrives. Sarah goes to the church to join Fabien. They approach the Nephilim. They introduce themselves. They had heard they were coming. They tell us that it is hard to get valid info. They believe that the head of the army Major Reinhart has spotted them immediately as Nephilims, so they have been stuck and not able to collect information. Vatra is very frustrated. They walk away with us to a discreet spot so that people don’t associate us with them. They suggest the following areas for more info:

1. Talking to the firemen.
2. Major Reinhart is in the police station so they may be in the safe in the weapons cage.
3. They also believe the military camp has a copy of the orders on why the army was sent.
4. The bodies are at the same camp so Alexi can use that.
5. We can also go on site to figure out what is there.

They can see that the remaining reporters are simply here to be the voice of the army. They recommend hitting up the Major for info or going on site to find out what is happening there. The site is guarded by about 6 experienced soldiers.

### A visit to the fire station

We go to the fire department. Fabien uses the Hive Mind to connect us. Sarah and Gilbert start taking photos outside. The firemen are polishing their engines. Sarah asks if we can go in and take some photos. The firemen show us around. We take lots of photos. We ask to slide down the pole. We come in and slide down the pole. We ask about the fire and they all look uncomfortable. Gilbert slips into ka-sight and sees nothing out of the norm. Sarah flirts with a younger fireman. She slowly brings up the fire again. She succeeds in her roll to get them to open up. They fail their roll on resistance.

We learn the following using the Hive Mind: Water did not affect the fire at all. The fire was artificially fed. It completely consumed the main hall. It melted everything. It was very localised and caused little collateral damage. They saw dead soldiers that appeared to have been shot. Army vehicles sustained bullet damage. There were a lot of army vehicles but very few soldiers. The fire burnt out on its own. The firemen do not believe the Woodberry’s are capable of bomb-building. They think the fire came from inside. The army is very upset about how it unravelled and they believe the Major was acting in a rogue way and the hierarchy is pressuring him to hush things up and fix it. Reinhart took all records they have but they are going to give Sarah the photos they took on their phones. There are a lot of military. Gilbert notices that some of the army vehicles are a lot more discreet. The first wave of army was hush hush and the second wave was everything else. The soldiers are from a training facility and should not have been part of an actual attack. The two waves happened over night so there were no Woodberrys out and about. There are always 4 soldiers at the front with more patrolling.

We now know that Templars attacked and it went wrong. We leave the fire station and undo the Hive Mind.

### Breaking into the police station

We do some reconnaissance of the police station. Sarah summons Astramance. She asked what the worst case outcome of going into the Police Station is. It's not so bad.

Fabien uses his bead to build a map of the police station. Gilbert calls the Torchlit Labyrinth creature to hide our actions. Fabien opens the wall to enter the weapons room. Fabien hides the inside. The safe has a combination lock. Sarah uses the spell to open the side of the safe.

We get reports from the firemen, morgue and eye-witness. Gilbert uses kabbala creature Tamale - white cat with wings to copy the docs to his brain.

We back out of the police station. We return to the hotel to find that Gilbert's brain is not as good as mobile photos. We recall the cats to make new copies on our phones.

In the files we have the transcript of the firemen: The hall was burnt by high temps. It proved that the vessels had accelerants. The flames reacted with water making it worse. It does not appear magical. All bodies inside were consumed. Only soldiers were found dead. Most were shot but some had wounds as though attacked by animals or they may have been poisoned. Rosamund may have been using magic to attack them.

A transcript of the orders sent via radio: the first wave was organised of experienced soldiers to surround the camp and catch everyone. There was a big commotion when meeting with the vessels because of firing resistance. The second wave was soldiers in training which didn’t go well. No one from the first wave survived except for the Major.

*The contents of file folder 1*: A lot of photos of the valley and interviews of some anonymous person who explained how the camp worked and the routine. It made it clear it was a Nephilim-run place raising people to become simulacrums. It appears that the person interviewed is Gilbert meaning that the info most-likely came from the 4 in Ardeche.

*The contents of file folder 2*: One email sent before attack to Major informing the presence of 3 Nephilims at the vessels and photos of people being welcomed by Rosamund and Henry. The military tried to track the email with no luck. The attack was made less than an hour after the email. They were the Nephilim coming from France to get new simulacrums for those Nephilim injured in Ardeche. Vatra confirms this. Email was from a “mole” we suspect.

### Looking for details of Gilbert's induction

Gilbert summons Gyran to remember the visit by the angel and how that happened. It was very beautiful androgynous angel reaching out and telling him that he had been selected and that he needed to go to France and find a farm in Ardeche to learn about his destiny. It is quite fake.

We decide to call Fizz. When Adele and Fizz were trying to figure out there was a weird conjuction happening, Zora (learned through divination - she is a manush) said there would be new Nephilim. They tried to investigate and found the story of Astre and it didn’t end well. They anonymously heard from someone that they found one of these new Nephilims and was sending him her way. Fizz felt it was normal that someone would do this and didn't question it.

Gilbert summons Astramance to predict the worst case scenario if we pass on all the information we have to Vatra. There is not much information that would allow him or Ferida to harm us. We call Vatra and turn over all the info and photos. Is the information in the packet valid? Yes these were the people from Ardeche

## Mar 2nd 2015, Monday morning

NB: Date confusion....seem to have two different Mondays...

The remaining tasks on the list obtained from the discussion with Ferida and Vatra are:

1. ~~Talking to the firemen.~~
2. ~~Major Reinhart~~ ~~is in the police station so they may be in the safe in the weapons cage.~~
3. ~~They also believe the military camp has a copy of the orders on why the army was sent.~~
4. The bodies are at the same camp so Alexi can use that.
5. We can also go on site to figure out what is there.

As they found information on the army's orders in the Police Station, the group decides that it is best to attempt to infiltrate the military camp to allow Alexi to communicate with one or more of the dead soldiers whose bodies are being stored there.

### How do we get into the military camp?

Various possiblities mooted

* Fabien suggests using Skinwalker Beads so they can look like soldiers and walk straight into the camp.
* Gilbert proposes trying to coax 'information' from the soldiers that he expects to find wandering around in the park after dark
* Alexi suggests that Sarah could put on a 'USO' style show at the camp to allow them to get in and search for the bodies while the Majority of the camp are distracted
* Fabien (?) suggests that they could forge and email from Major Reinhart stating that a civilian doctor was going to come to the camp and perform autopsies on the bodies.

The consensus decision was for the fake email/autopsy option. Fabien heads to a nearby town, La Crosse, to attempt to do the hacking from an Internet cafe...

### When hacking goes hideously wrong....

Fabien attempts to make the hack into the army computer network. This task was classed as 'very difficult' and Fabien, unfortunately, failed epically to achieve it. [Roll of 1]

The result was that Fabien found himself suddenly sitting in front of a computer in an Internet cafe with no memory of where he is and how he got there. The last memory he has is of his apartment in Lyon and contemplating going out to get bread.

Fabien, still very confused, realises that he is in the US. In disbelief, he gets up, leaves the cafe and walks down the street. In short order his is stopped by the police, accused of being a terrorist and is arrested and remanded in the La Crosse police station holding cells. He is told that he will stay there all night until the FBI arrive in the morning to 'interview' him.

### Meanwhile, 'Find Friends' to the rescue

Meanwhile, Sarah, Alexi and Gilbert are in contact with Fabien throughout the day as he provides updates on his progress.   At around 7pm that evening they suddenly lose contact with him.

After having no communication with him for over an hour Gilbert uses ‘Find My Friends’ on his phone to locate Fabien’s phone and sees that it is located in  police station in La Crosse

A quick debate about possible courses of action SAG decide to enlist the help of Ferida and Vatra

### Ferida and Vatra are *not* amused, by us OR each other.

After contacting Ferida and Vatra, they meet and explain what has happened.  The assumption is that Fabien’s computer activities in La Crosse - illegal hacking into the accounts of a known Templar, Major Reinhart , were discovered and he was arrested.   Both of them a extremely concerned that the police, at least, are Templars.   It is also likely that hacking, being a federal offense, will attract the attention of the FBI - whether through conventional legal channels or through the Templar communication network,  and the longer Fabien is left with them the more likely it is that they will ‘extract’ information from Fabien that that group would not want known.

* Vatra advises a precision extraction from the police station by breaking in at 3ama
* Ferida rolls eyes at suggestion and suggests using subterfuge.

Ferida is concerned that a captured Nephilim is either In Shadow or the captors know how to capture a Nephilim and have laid a trap.

Ferida makes a case that they need to get more information about what is actually going on before making a move on rescuing Fabien. She suggests paying a late night visit to one of the La Crosse policemen and try to get more information from them

Sarah, Alexi and Gilbert decide to go with Ferida’s advice

There is some discussion about the potential use (or not) of Alexi sending a message to Fabien using his occult powers(?) however, if the assumption is that he is in shadow then it may be more confusing than helpful for him to receive such a message.

Ultimately Sarah, Alexi, Gilbert and Ferida travel to La Crosse to break Fabien out of the police station.

### Adventures in La Crosse police station

The group arrive in La Crosse at approx 10pm and locate the police station.

They identify that there is one police officer in the station at the front desk.

Ferida suggests that there must be at least one other police officer present in the town who would be off duty i.e. they may be able to provide some information about Fabien’s incarceration.

Sarah Alexi and Gilbert, however opt for a more direct approach and convince Ferida that she and Alexi should go into the station.

Ferida suggests that, given Alexi is Selenim and that they are known to be impervious to the effects of orichalcum, Alexi could go in first and drop a potion, which she would provide to him, that would reveal the presence of any Orichalcum in the building - in fact, she is unwilling to go in unless some effort is made to check for orichalcum first.

### Sex changes are not just for Clown Fish...

She then pulls out a powder from her attache case, sprinkles it on herself and her appearance magically changes in to that of a man - she will be known as ‘Farido’

Farido gives Alexi a potion containing a ‘swirling mist’ which Alexi is to drop in the room. The mist will turn red if there Orichalcum present. Once she is certain there is none, Ferida will follow Alexi in

Farido then challenges Alexi to

* construct an accurate backstory before going in
* to think about cameras and how they might avoid being recorded

He decides that he will be a Spanish tourist claiming to be lost and looking for the Raddison Hotel La Crosse

### Spaniards on tour - does magical coercion count as consent?

Alexi goes in to police station, carrying a satchel and an English/Spanish phrase book, speaking Spanish -

He explains that his phone battery is dead, and he can’t find his hotel. In the process of pretending to find the paper with the name of hotel on it, he drops all his stuff - including his ‘cologne’. This allows the vial to break on the floor and release the gas which does not turn red.

Farido then comes in and Alexi explains that the policeman behind the counter is helping them find the hotel.  Farido rolls his eyes, tell Alexi he is an idiot and should go and clean himself up while he talks to the policeman

Farido leans over the counter, crunches something in his hand and is suddenly acting more masculine than he was previously.

Meanwhile, Alexi goes into the bathroom and eavesdrops on the conversation

The policeman, who was, initially, very distant is now very chatty.

Farido calls Alexi back in in Spanish - “Are you done yet” and says they have to go to the hotel in a rush.

Alexi thanks the policeman who is a *lot* more friendly and behaving like they are buddies

As they leave Farido teases Alexi and nods in a manly fashion to the cop

The cop is starstruck in a bromance kinda way

### What Farido learned...

As soon as they step outside, Farido/a becomes a closed off shell but tells Sarah, Alexi and Gilbert all she has learned and done

* Fabien has been arrested under suspicion of terrorism
* Ferida says that, the police have found Fabien’s wallet and ID and now Fabien has been ‘flagged’ by the FBI
* The FBI is coming in the morning
* Farido sprinkled powder in the station that will diffuse through the building and connect Alexi to Fabien because they know each other
* Powder will make Fabien visible in Ka-sight (in moon)

Ferida seems unaware that, as a Selenim, Alexi’s Ka-sight will not allow him to see the powder, however, it is clear that Sarah and Gilbert will be able to see it.

### Where is Fabien?

Gilbert slips into Ka-sight and he can see that Fabien is in a cell at the back of the building.

The cell is half below ground level because the station is built on a slope, however the outer wall of the cell is accessible to those on the outside of the building

Gilbert suggests that he opens up a hole in the wall however they need to do something about the cameras.

They concoct a plan to

* Entice the policeman outside (Alexi intends to use conjuring - the last escape of the free to force the compel the policeman to exit using the front door) and temporarily incapacitate him.
* Sarah will summon the Kabbala creature ‘The quicksilver mirrors, ministers of resemblances’ (aka ReplicateMe) and contract the creature to assume the form of the policeman (effectively a golem).
* Sarah will then control the golem remotely and he will re-enter the station, go directly to Fabien, let him out of the cell and then escort him out of the building.
* They will then release the real policeman back into the station with his memory wiped so that he doesn’t remember doing it

There is again some discussion about the idea of sending Fabien a message to help him recover from being in Shadow prior to breaking him out however it is decided not to do this.

Sarah summons ReplicateMe

* A shimmering humanoid made of ‘heat mirage’ appears
* It is standing waiting in silence
* Sarah makes a contract
* The creature wants to know
	+ if it will put it in danger
	+ if the cause is honourable

The contract succeeds and the creature waits to be told who it is to imitate

### The Conjuring - blooper reel...

Alexi uses a the Last Escape of the Free conjuring to entice policeman out of the police station

Unfortunately, the conjuring fails dismally and the entity creature bursts through the door and scares the policeman into the toilet

Sarah, Alexi, Gilbert and Ferida quickly re-adjust their plan

* Sarah modifies the toilet wall into a door using a spell
* Ferida drops a phial onto the floor - policeman passes out
* Sarah directs the golem to imitate the policeman
* Sarah’s perception suddenly switches to the golem
* The Golem takes the policeman’s key and the pass card

It becomes apparent that the Kabbala creature cannot see in Ka-sight which means Sarah cannot see the path to Fabien laid out by Ferida’s potion.   Sarah uses intelligence and spatial puzzle solving to remember where Fabien is in the building

The Golem then goes to the cell in which Fabien is locked.   It cuffs a very confused Fabien, takes him out of the building and hands him and the key over to the Alexi and Gilbert. The Golem is then directed to go back into station without Fabien and return to the toilet.

### Fabien needs to CTFD and Sarah gets plucky...

Gilbert tells Fabien, who is looking anxious, to relax. Gilbert convinces Fabien to remove his watch

which triggers the exposure of Fabien’s metamorph. His skin suddenly turns gray and looks like 10yo burns

In turn, Fabien is shocked out of being In Shadow and returns to controlling his simulacrum

Sarah releases the creature and she thanks it.   She also asks the creature what kind of things it likes...

* Apparently it likes polaroid/photobooth photos

Sarah reaches into the policeman's pants and plucks out a couple of pubic hairs for Alexi!?

Ferida then opens a hole in the wall by drawing a circle on it

Gilbert wants to learn how to do this but Ferida says not until he opens his second level.

At this point they realise that they have left Fabien’s phone and ID in the evidence room....

### Once more unto the breach, dear friends!

Sarah resummons the creature and negotiates another contract to replicate the policeman again only this time she promises to bring the creatures some photos

* Contract succeeds
* The golem enters the station again, guided by the voice of Iowho has figured out where the evidence room is, and finds Fabien’s personal effects
* Ioalso discovers a large book of mugshots which the golem picks up
* The Golem and Ioreturn to the bathroom and Sarah releases the creature from the contract
* Sarah hands creature the mug shot book and the creature disappears

Ferida makes another hole in the wall and they leave the station

### Fabien is back in the room and tries to hack....again.

Alexi suggests that they need to to do something about erasing the digital evidence of Fabien’s arrest.

Despite his earlier hacking failure, Fabien suggests an attempt to hack into the police computers and deal with the evidence

Fabien, Alexi, Gilbert and Sarah, accompanied by Ferida go to the internet cafe at midnight

Before attempting the hack, Ferida gives Fabien a gas potion which temporarily increases his intelligence making the success of the hack more likely

Fabien succeeds in breaking into the computer system

* alters his police files by changing ID and photographs to that of a known terrorist
* deletes all of the video footage of the nights events
* Makes a backdoor which will allow them access to the police system until someone discovers it and the code self destructs
* Creates an alert system which will flag if anyone searches for us

Ferida requests that she and Vatra be included in the alert system

They try to barter for some alchemy knowledge in exchange but this doesn’t fly with Ferida

## March 3rd 2015, Tuesday

Fabien was traumatised last night and will be laying low.

### Midwifing the Rune

Alexi’s Celtic expert has deciphered one of the Futhark foci called Midwifing the Rune. It is Very Difficult. It allows you to perceive the ideal situation of the appearance of a rune that you only know through research on the core of someone you know.

We can either go to see the dead bodies to interrogate or go to the valley and observe for ourselves.

Alexi gets a conjuring called The Purple Medusa which allows him to make someone unconscious. He must be less than 2m from the target. It paralyses the target but they can still feel everything. If done on a Nephilim, it curses them for 1 point of black moon.

### Gilbert and Alexi make a plan to get into the fort

* Fabien is going to try to get us into the fort by calling in favours by acquaintances.
* Alexi asks to contact a senator they know and write a letter to Major Reinhart’s boss that there is a favour they need: a photographer and his assistant are taking portraits of soldiers after traumatic experiences.
* We do obtain the documents necessary.
* We decide to make a copy of Alexi while on base to help Gilbert while taking photographs and then the real Alexi can explore on his own.
* Gilbert uses the spell “I modify the passport to Diplomacy Passport Identity Gilbert Thorn” to change his passport.

### Entering the Fort - assigned a guide

We go to the gate with our papers and IDs. They let us in with our equipment. We are assigned a soldier to show us around. Our guide was not at the Vessels of the Aquarians. We explain we are looking for people that have seen shit. He leads us there but makes it clear that there is only so much that they can discuss. We explain we are looking for the emotions.

We are taken to a fire-station/medical department. We talk to some of the medics. We need to convince them for access to the morgue.

### Gilbert spell bounds the guide so he takes us to the morgue

Gilbert uses a spell to make our guide want to take us to the morgue. “I modify our guides mind to be “freedom servitude” to encourage him to take us to the morgue. Gilbert fails miserably. The spell works too well. He basically grovels to make us happy. We get him to take us to the morgue.

We ask him to tell us everything he knows about the Vessels attack. He tells us:

* the Major sent the experienced, very well trained soldiers.
* From what he gathers, it went well at first then went wrong. They were killed.
* The Major asked for emergency reinforcements put trainees into active combat.
* The buildings were on fire and there wasn’t much to do but contain the fire and then contain the drama.

Gilbert goes into Ka-sight and sees that there are air fields going chaotic around the soldier due to the misfired spell. Gilbert collects a bit of his hair.

### Alexi talks with the dead

Dead soldiers are 2 sun and 4 torment. Alexi plays for 5 minutes for the Fluttering of the War torn heart to appease the soldier and Torment is removed. Alexi attempts to talk with the dead through necromancy. We put the guide outside the door to lookout for us. Alexi conjures a creature to help. Alexi fails to communicate with the soldiers with a roll of 1 but he uses his “fava bean” (heart stone) to save the roll.

He is aware that it was not official army. A form of counter terrorism. There is more to it. He doesn't know if it aliens but there is more than what we know.

If he was in charge of keeping the valley safe how would he do it, he would put some obvious people as a distraction. But then the real defence would be hidden. Probably not in the valley, around. Not a lot but enough incase there is intruders.

During the fighting. The Nephilim fought back, then all of a sudden they stopped.

The Nephilim just stopped fighting - they didn't appear to have won - they just disappeared.

Alexi hears a whispering voice asking "What brings you here?" Alexi asked what happened. He replied "I got chocked, I couldn’t breath and died." After he died, there was more fighting. He is sure that "someone was attacked by a garden gnome with a poisoned weapon. There were flying wolves that attacked soldiers. They fired at everything but all ended up dying. The building caught fire. Nothing happened for a long time then the other soldiers arrived." He saw no one come out where he was. The firemen arrived and he was packed away.

Working backwards from being unable to breathe, they got an order from Reinhart to kill or stop or immobilise some people at the Vessels of the Aquarian. They were shown photos of the people there. They were clearly Nephilim. They were told to shoot at them but not kill them. They were told to go through the buildings and collect anything that looked old and to go through the pockets of the Nephilim.

When they arrived, they were shot at and then it all went to hell. Some of the Vessels were shooting back. Then weird stuff started happening. Lots of screaming. Stragglers were gathering in the hall. That is when he died.

Some of the locals were shooting with hunting rifles. Better than farmers.

As far as he knows, none of the antiques/relics were found or the Nephilim’s incapacitated.

He remembers one or two people getting wounded on the way to the hole.

If any artifacts were found they would be kept with the Major.

The soldier is aware that this was not official army business. It was a form of counter-terrorism but he doesn’t know if it was aliens or what but he suspects it is more than what we know.

If he was in charge of keeping the valley safe how would he do it, he would put some obvious people as a distraction. But then the real defence would be hidden. Probably not in the valley, around. Not a lot but enough incase there is intruders.

They were fighting, He saw the Nephilim. The Nephilim attacked. The soldiers got wiped and then the Nephilim disappeared. They just stopped.

All the dead appear to be low-level templars or similar arcana.

### Wiping the memories of the guide after Gilbert makes him unconscious

Gilbert uses a spell to make our guide unconscious. “I modify the guide’s thoughts Subconscious Dreaming Sleep.” He falls asleep. Alexi runs the "surgical shattering of the mind" to remove his memories of going crazy. He will remember doing his job efficiently but not going into overdrive.

We leave the base.

## March 4th 2015, Wednesday

### Planning what to do next

1. We need to find a way to make ourselves undetectable. Bruno suggested “The Silent Presence of the Leafy Valley” Kabbala until he realised we didn’t have it.

Could look for:

* Residues of spells, doors to akashas, creatures of the Kabbala, Ferida used one to reveal orichalcum.

### Back into town - chat to Vatra and Ferida

We go back into town and talk to Ferida and Vatra. Two different ideas to get information:

* Vatra sneaks in at night, kills everyone and then uses the time we have. The problem is that there might not be enough time to investigate.
* Ferida would figure out what happened by studying what spells were used and what happened to the fields. A massive fire would have created dragon effects and left fields changed. A sense spell could tell us what happened.

Io suggests that we turn the soldiers into undead but Gilbert is against that. If we could find the hidden soldiers and neutralise them while keeping the communication going would work. (Use Audia to make the sounds.) We need to know what they are using to communicate, paralyse them and then we have at least a night to explore. We can then modify their memory so that we can do it again later.

Gilbert uses a spell to increase Alexi’s hearing and eyesight.

### How the farm is being guarded

We check Reinhart’s papers to find out how the farm is being guarded.

* There are two soldiers at the entrance,
* 4 in the forest working in teams of two separated by 20m and they patrol the valley.
* They communicate by radio every 15 minutes.
* They are camouflaged and not easily seen.
* Someone at Larfarge is also monitoring the communications.

### Plan to get into the farm

* We plan to get the two guards at the entrance and replace them with look-alikes.
* Alexi is going to sneak up to be close to the guards for when Gilbert shrinks them from a distance.
* Ferida gives us sleeping gas to put the guards to sleep after they are shrunk and contained.
* Gilbert will create golems.

There is an akasha because of the big fire. It may not be important. If they have been taken into an akasha then it is because they are all crazy cult people and would be full of angels. There could be traps from the living Nephilims. Traps can be found by looking for remnants of the spells in Ka-sight. We might have to use Kabbala for finding traps (worst-case scenario). Map beads to see if there're hidden structures

### Gilbert & Alexi works on spells

1. “I perceive the patterns intelligent” to help us understand what we are seeing.
2. to shrink the guards
3. to locate akasha doors “I sense door akasha”
4. to see infrared
5. to find a stase
6. I perceive in sonar dolphin will give echo location.

Kabbala stuff: Malkut is protection, Netzah knee-jerk reactions , Hod is psychie mind, Netzah is death, life, healing

Gilbert is researching keywords for spell-casting on Thursday morning at a library and online. This is done by searching by element. He also researches Kabbala creatures for a making us undetectable.

	1. Reveal traps - Malkut
	2. Protect from magical attack - Netzah
2. Analogy words
	1. water words
	2. look for a spell to do something
	3. Door (no) Portal
	4. Hidden (no) - Mask (Water)
	5. Reveal (n0)
	6. Trap (Moon)

## 6 March 2015, Friday

### Preparation for Visiting the Farm of the Vessels

Friday is spent preparing for our visit to the farm of the Vessels. We spend the time performing alchemy and topping up.

Gilbert calls the Torchlit Labyrinth to ask about creatures who might hide us while moving. This appears to be above our level. There is a Malkut creature that can hide us in a organic object like a bush called the Silent Presence in the Leafy Shadows and Gilbert is given the sigil. This creature requires you to remain stationary. There is a creature that can travel with us and warn us when someone can see us. There is also one that makes the person who detected us lose sight of us for a second and then not find us again. Gilbert asks for the names and sigils if possible. When asked what kinds of gifts they like, they indicate that they are always happen to accept things that shed light.

Sarah goes and buys walkie-talkies and then summons Astramance to ask a question. Sarah gives the walkie-talkie to Astramance to play with. Sarah says she wants to learn more about the world from which Astramance comes. Astramance indicates that the best way to learn about a world is to be invited there to explore.

### Plan for the farm of the Vessels

We head out to the farm of the Vessels to execute our plan: We are to head to the entrance just out of sight. Wait for the guards to not be nearby. Alexi will wait in hiding for the guards. From a distance, Gilbert will shrink them. Alexi will gas them with gas from Ferida. We then create golems to repeat the guard checks allowing us to explore in relative freedom.

The spell for shrinking is: I modify the guards smaller further spyglass.

### Visit to the Farm of the Vessels - Part I

Alexi puts himself in place to await the arrival of the guards while Sarah, Fabien and Gilbert watch from a distance in hiding. Things do not go well for Alexi. While whistling, Alexi trips and is discovered. Gilbert immediately fires off the shrinking spell “I modify the guards smaller further spyglass” and succeeds in shrinking the guards. Alexi quickly recovers and gases the shrunk guards to incapacitate them.

Sarah uses the Replicate Me kabbala to copy the guards in life-size.

Sarah gets more information on the Shards of Astre

Sarah goes up a level in her magic with a roll of 20 allowing her to get a free 20 roll to ask any question. She opts to sense all the fragments of Astre:

1. Sarah has the water shard.
2. A statue of Mary with an Earth Heart of Christ in a beautiful church in France contains the earth shard.
3. Martinson has the black moon shard.
4. A young man with snow white hair that is blown by unseen air has the air shard in Australia.
5. A group of several statues of Mary in France have the fire shard.
6. A boy with red hair, freckles and pointed ears (like Peter Pan) has the moon shard.It is not located on Earth.
7. A young, slender woman radiating with sun with black eyes in a European city has the oracalcum shard. This woman appears to be Sarah’s nemesis and is hunting Sarah.
8. A golden ram in an anti-terre has the sun shard. The anti-terre appears as a huge cave deep under the Earth and is terrifying. Sarah knows her pentacle is in danger. In the middle is a patch of golden grass and on a hill there is a ram that is made of gold which makes Sarah feel peaceful - around the ram is golden sun energy. The cave is in the astral plane and it is not an akasha.
9. As the visions the visions recede, Sarah thinks she hears Astramance talk to her saying something mundane like “You should visit someday.” Perhaps Astramance is a shard of Astre of what remained of Astre after the split.

There are at least 8 (possibly 9) shards of Astre as described above:

1. Water
2. Earth
3. Black Moon
4. Air
5. Fire
6. Moon
7. Oracalcum
8. Sun
9. Astramance (fragment or clue to another element?)

Gilbert casts a perceive spell and succeeds in helping Sarah deduct what she saw. Only Sarah knows the result of this spell.

Seemingly, all the fragments are attracted to us. The water shard is located where Fabien was born and where Fiz lived. The air fragment is linked to the white hair guy who is linked to Fabien. There is a feeling that the fragments are linked to specific locations and specific people of importance in our lives. The people Sarah saw are either the people keeping the fragments or they are the clue to get the group to the fragment. There is a fragment where ever those people are.

### Visit to the Farm of the Vessels - Part II

Fabien attempts to create the second golem and succeeds.

Sarah, Gilbert and Fabien all cast spells to get night vision and they all succeed. Ka sight reveals that magic just took place and that there are two moon creatures posturing as guards (the golems). No oracalcum can be sensed.

We head for the buildings. In the middle of the houses, one of them (the hall) is a pile of rubble. In ka-sight, the field of fire around there is very agitated.

Gilbert senses for an akasha (rolls a 20). He senses none. He thinks that some anti-terres have appeared. Fabien tries to locate the door and he now knows there is no door. The anti-terres  must have formed after the attack as a result of the fire and the subsequent negative publicity about the Vessels and the fire.

### A Fire Dragon Effect Attacks at the Hall

We head for the hall. There is a mass of vitrified burned things. In ka-sight, the fire fields are roiling. A fire dragon effect appears as a line of fire and attacks.

Fabien summons the peacemaker to stop the dragon effect from attacking. He succeeds. Everyone feels shitty about being aggressive. There is no aggressive action for 15 minutes.

Alexi calls Ferida and asks how to combat a fire dragon effect and learns little. IIo is a dragin effect hunter but refuses to help us. The biggest risk is that Dragon effects will attack pentacles by draining magic.

Sarah calls the Glowing Halo of the Truth Seeker to protect from magical damage. Sarah succeeds in protecting herself by 4 points. Each person of the group gets one saving point.

Alexi steps aside to concentrate on raising some dead soldiers from a shallow grave which he found. The Moon Crow of Panic is cast on Alexi from an unseen foe. As Alexi is investigating the strange bodies, he becomes creeped out and he can’t shake it. He adds one level of difficulty to everything done.

Gilbert scans the immediate area with ka-sight. He discovers that there is a second dragon effect on the building across the street from the hall (a weak moon effect). The moon dragon effect disappears. He shouts a warning.

Fabien calls the Armours of the kabbala. It increases his fire-ka by 1 level on attack.

Sarah casts a spell to get sonor: “I perceive in sonor dolphin.” She starts to use sonor and finds a hollow space under the vitrified floor.

Gilbert summons the Silent Holder of the Moonshield. He has a big straw hat with liquid green eyes. He is holding a huge silver shield. Gilbert asks for help. The creature can hold the shield above him and knock off a projectile once. Gilbert succeeds in the contract.

Alexi reanimates one of the dead bodies under the ground. He commands the person to dig his way out.

Sarah summons the Armours of the kabbala under moon and succeeds.

Alexi tries some necromancy but fails.

Gilbert calls the Imperishable Fabrics of Time for the water armour of the kabbala. He fails with a 1 and becomes cursed by 1 and enkaibated by 1.

Alexi adds a tentacles to the buried dead guy so that he can dig himself out of the grave quicker.

Gilbert heads to his house in an attempt to gain more time to prepare his self-defense for the inevitable battle with the fire dragon effect.

The Peacemaker disappears.

Gilbert summons the water armour of the Kabbala and succeeds. He also takes one of the strength pills. He is now out of commission for 5 rounds as he attempts to don his armour.

The fire dragon disappears from the hall.

Sarah looks for a large body of water using a spell. Comes up empty.

Fabien tries to open up the ground to see what is underneath. He is unsuccessful.

Alexi wakes the other dead guy in the shallow grave.

### The Fire Dragon Effect Attacks at Gilbert’s House

Meanwhile in Gilbert’s house, the fire dragon effect appears and attacks. Gilbert yells, dodges and tries to use the peacemaker as a stall for time but the peacemaker if offended and refuses.

Fabien and Sarah run to Gilbert’s house to help.

Alexi uses one of his magical punches to attack the dragon effect from a distance but fails.

Gilbert successfully dodges the next dragon attack and jumps into the shower and cranks on the taps to use the water as a weapon/defense against the fire dragon effect.

Fabien arrives and tries his flying needles.The dragon dodges the attack.

Sarah modifies the water in the house to mist: “I modify water into mist rain.” This causes damage to the dragon as it cannot dodge.

Gilbert flings his needles at the dragon. Sarah’s and Gilbert’s attack cause 5 points of damage to the dragon effect (half the total) causing the dragon to flee/disappear back to its lair. We assume that the cavity under the hall must be the dragon’s lair. We decide to use the snow in the valley to flood the dragon’s lair and kill it. We run back to the hall.

Alexi tries to activate spider feet but fails.

Fabien gives all of us gecko juice to make us very strong to hold on in case the torrent of water about to hit drags us away.

Sarah opens the hole under the hall and in the middle of the hole is a very unhappy dragon effect.

Gilbert uses “I modify snow to water” for line of sight and it all drains into the area of the hall turning it into a swamp killing the dragon effect.

### Gilbert Finds an Odd Photo

Gilbert realises that something was odd in his house. He goes back to find a lot of dampness. On the wall is a new picture of a book cover of Gilbert’s but it isn’t a book he ever published. In the details there is an email address that is not Gilbert’s. Ka sight shows the photo to be normal. Gilbert takes a photo of the photo on his phone but also takes the original off the wall examine later.

### Alexi interrogates the dead soldiers

Alexi’s dead soldiers witnessed magic. There were fast moving shadows/ninjas. The magicians (?) seemed to die very fast. The people were herded to the back of the hall and they couldn’t see anything else. The ninjas said they were sent by the angels to save them. The noise lessoned and then the fire started.

### Things to do in the next session:

1. Finish investigating what happened to the nephilim and the Vessels.
2. Make amends with the Peacemaker.
3. Go to Rosamund’s house and get an object which we can use to track her.
4. Determine what the black ninjas were.
5. Follow-up Gilbert's photo.

## March 7th, Saturday, 2am

### In Gilbert’s house

#### A discussion with Io

Can she summarize the findings of our previous session?

* Someone has clearly manipulated the situation that occured on the site
* The 'Ninjas'
	+ were behind the abduction of the vessels
	+ seem to have manipulated the soldiers (presumed Templars) and nephilim, causing the true nature of both sides to be revealed
	+ during the ensuing fray, the rescued the Vessels of the aquarians
	+ sound as though they were humans but didn’t behave like they were capable of magic
	+ are definitely Minor Arcana of some sort
	+ used lies and manipulation
* From what Io knows of the Minor Arcana it is unlikely to be The Mysteries or the Templars
* Really, they need to ask someone who knows more about Minor Arcana...
* The whole thing Could be a play to by one or more of the Major Arcana (eg, Major Arcana of Justice) to cripple the Major Arcana of Pope (whom whom we already know are connected to the Vessels of the aquarian) but it would be unusual of a Major Arcana of be unusual of a Major Arcana of to not utilise magic in doing so
* Io doesn’t know exactly who did do it but it seems clear it wasn’t the Templars or the Major Arcana of pope

### A photographer examines a photo

#### Gilbert examines the photograph of the book cover

Io suggests that the book seems like an exploitable clue

* it was deliberately left for Gilbert as identifying the picture and the agent’s email as being possibly fictitious would only have been possible for Gilbert

* Had to have been someone who knew that
	+ Gilbert wasn’t there
	+ that Gilbert would come back and
	+ had reason to contact Gilbert

Gilbert doesn’t think the photo has been doctored - just that he doesn't recognise it or the memory of when it was taken

#### Fabien tries to hack the email address

The obvious choice concerning the false email address is to send an email to it however, some *pre-email* hacking might prove useful

* DNS trace leads to an anonymous Google domain
* Fabien hacks the email address - achieves roll
* Result is that the IP trace is impossible

Alexi suggests using a Kabbala creature that can help us examine the photo/book/memories

### The triplets of Jal'Dara

#### The Summoning of Gyran mist-eye

Gyran is known to like incense. The closest thing they have to this is some perfume in Sarah's hangbag. Sarah donates some Opium perfume in her handbag

Gilbert calls upon *Gyran mist-eye, the deep net of the sunken memories, triplet of the docks of Jal’dara* with the aim of remembering where and when the photo was taken. Gyran appears

Gyran is

* dressed in embroidered veils, half covering his face

* he has a smoking bowl in front of him

Gyran agrees to help Gilbert

* Identifies that there is a memory there but Gilbert is unable to focus on it

* This tells Gyran that the memory has been altered

Gyran suggests that his sister Shoranne, may be able to help

#### The Summoning of Shoranne the gourmand

Gilbert calls upon *Shoranne the gourmand, reflection of the broken mirrors, triplets of the docks of Jal’dara* with the aim of getting help with the altered memory. Shoranne appears

Shoranne;

* is a water element
* likes moths and chopsticks
* is a woman with silvery hair
* similarly to her brother Gyran is covered in embroidered veils
* has faintly glowing silver eyes
* She is surrounded by feebly flying moths which land on her then take off again
* She also has bowl full of moths
* She casually picks up the moths with the chopsticks and eats them

Gilbert requests help with the altered memory and asks how Shoranne may be able to help

* She shows the memories of other people who were present when the given memory occurred
* It will be experienced through the eyes of those other people who were there

Gilbert offers Shoranne some chopsticks from Thailand….that were made in China

Shoranne agrees to help Gilbert

* She eats a moth and her eyes become more luminous
* A holographic version of a scene appears
* Gilbert can see a version of himself sitting at a desk in the hotel room he was in before having his ‘dreaming of an angel’ dream…
* the hotel room was in South America
* In the room is Frederique, taking the photograph
* Both of them seem to be in a good mood and having fun with the process of taking the photos

Shoranne suggests that they could find out more about the scene by summoning her brother the 3rd triplet - Eomenic

Before he summons Eomenic, Gilbert asks Shoranne about Jal’dara

* It is a cool city on the coast
* There is a massive lighthouse
* She refers to it as ‘the starting point’

Gilbert asks what *world* The triplets are from but she evades the question multiple times

###

#### The summoning of Eomenic the third eye

Gilbert calls upon *Eomenic, the third eye, echo of the vivacious memories, triplet of the docks of Jal'dara*

Eomenic;

* is an air element
* likes turbans
* appears as a gypsy/vagrant/Indian person
* has a massive beard and a huge blue turban that covers his eyes
* Allows you to relive a memory but slowed down and viewed with more clarity, picking up details which were not *consciously* pick up at the time.

When summoned in conjunction with the other two triplets

* allows you to relives a scene that you have experienced and to understand the *intention* of anyone who was in the scene at the time and how they perceived the memory

Gilbert requests that all three do this

* Suddenly finds himself at the docks of Jal’dara
* It is very busy with people and stinks of fish
* The triplets are sitting together and people passing are showing clear signs of disdain at their presence

Gilbert attempts to make a contract with The triplets and succeeds

* Suddenly he is back in the holographic image of the hotel room

* Gilbert discovers that, at the time of the photo being taken, he;
	+ knows that Frederique is a long term close friend with an established connection
	+ knows that he is a Nephilim
	+ knows that Frederique is not a nephilim but is aware that Gilbert is
* Both of them know what the photo was going to be used for - i.e. that they knew what would happen to the Vessels of the Aquarian

* Gilbert is quite comfortable with what will happen and it seems to him to be more of a playful joke than anything and is very pleased with himself however;

* Gilbert is anxious about *something* that will happen soon

* it is not something to do with the Vessels
* Gilbert knows that at some point in the future he will need to rely heavily on Frederique and is comfortable with this
* Gilbert knows that while there are only two of them present at this point in time they are part of a bigger group

* He knows that his Nephilim name is Satyagraha

#### Nobody puts Satyagraha in the corner...

"Satyagraha" the word is

* a name meaning ‘polite insistence’

* also the name by which Gandhi’s referred to his philosophy of passive resistance

Satyagraha the nephilim is

* a powerful, established nephilim

* *not* an Agarthian
* stronger than Gilbert is now but had, for a long time, hit a wall in his quest for progression to advancement toward Agartha

The triplets convey to Gilbert that they have very much enjoyed the process and all awarded Gilbert with allied points

They will gladly be summoned again

Suddenly they find themselves back in Gilbert’s house

### Back in the House de Gilbert...

As they return to the room a new person appears out of thin air

* He appears slightly surprised that there are so many people are around

* He is a tall gangly redhead who looks very much like Eddy Redmayne

He introduces himself as Escobar

Gilbert drops into Ka-Sight and determine that Escobar is not Nephilim but is actually human with a smallish Sun Core

Alexi does some selenim stuff to determine of characteristics of Escobar

* [to be filled in by Cam maybe?]

#### QandA for Escobar

##### Alexi asks how he appeared?

* He used a Mandala to travel through an astral plane
* Claims he is a friend and wants to get to know FAGS and travel with them

* Says he is a Bohemian

* Part of the *Kumpania of the Rom*

##### Alexi is having trouble understanding how a member of the Romany can have such underdeveloped Sun-Ka and asks if he is ‘initiated’?

Escobar responds that he *is* initiated, he is real and is telling the truth

* His parents are politicians and were very often absent from the caravan he travelled with

* As a result he grew up with the influence of his grandparents
* Much of his education was ‘from afar’
* His father was a Romany politician and representative of the International Roma Union (IRU)
* Consequently he was always at the IRU headquarters in Prague and was distant from Escobar’s life

* Escobar claims his sun core is small because his parents were constantly trying to influence his upbringing toward political leanings?

Alexi is still confused by the idea that he can travel with a Mandala but still has such a small sun core

##### Io asks if he is 'on his own' and where his caravan is

* Escobar seems confused by this question

* Initially he says yes, then no, then yes, he *is* on his own

* His caravan travels around Europe
* He is of Slovenian descent

##### Io asks what brings him to these far away places

* The leader of his caravan, Shkotimis, suggested that he should experience life with people of different backgrounds outside of the caravan
* He has always been inquisitive but there have not been the right people around him to encourage that inquisitive nature

##### Io asks why he chose to appear in Wisconsin

* Shkotimis, who was like a father to him in the absence of his own father, knew of some Rom that travelled to the US in the past, to seek out guidance and help from family members who had migrated

* The suggestion was that he might like to travel to the US to seek these migrants out

* He began travelling toward this *idea*, not to Wisconsin specifically, but was drawn to this place by doing so

* He doesn’t, however, know what it is about this place specifically that drew him

##### Gilbert asks where his Mandala came from

* Escobar drew his own Mandala

* It was partially taught to him by the older members of his Caravan and partly learned by his own observation.
* Not normally something that someone would learn to do at such a young age however, because his parents were away so much he was looked after, and therefore influenced by, many different people in the caravan.

##### Alexi asks about his interractions with other Rom Caravans/Peoples

* Escobar’s caravan intersects with a several other caravan routes around Europe

##### Alexi asks what the greater form of magic is that he is using.

Io feels compelled to point out that Bohemians know more about immortals than the immortals do

Alexi and Gilbert are still uncomfortable with his small sun core

##### Gilbert asks if he is human

* He is confused by this but responds yes

* Bohemians are the human friends of the Nephilim

* They keep the memories of the Nephilim

Escobar makes a point of stating that he has been very ‘kind’ in turning up right at this time and place

##### Alexi asks if Escobar is open to allowing Alexi to feel his feelings

Alexi does some selenim necromancy with his flute then reports back that Escobar is feeling

* accomplishment
* flustered
* excited
* curious
* worried
* suspicious but open

Alexi also ‘farts’ with his Futhark [whatever that means]

* Escobar has a rune in is sun core
* It looks like a capital Raido
* Alexi has this rune already but no-one else does

#####

##### Alexi asks what a nephilim is to him

* Complex creatures that are really good to have as friends…
* They are magical beings who can move the elements to create magic

##### Alexi asks what a selenim is to him also

* Escobar deflects this to answer another day

##### Alexi asks if he has an understanding of the difference between Nephilim and Selenim

Gilbert really wants to hivemind but the others are not interested in pursuing this

Escobar manages to avoid answering this question

##### Alexi asks if they would E would be welcomed on meeting other Bohemians

* Escobar responds that, like any large group of people there are likely to be differences in opinion however there is nothing specific about him or his caravan that would raise concerns

#### Escobar asks a question...

Escobar asks where the house is and to whom it belongs

He assumes he is in Wisconsin because that is where Shkotimis said the other Roms had gone but doesn’t know where, specifically, in Wisconsin he is

Alexi openly wonders if the *Roms* were the Vessels of the Aquarian

* this theory doesn’t stand up to scrutiny because the Vessels were bred specifically to host Nephilim

##### Alexi asks Escobar what is so special about Wisconsin that the Roms should have wanted to go there

* Escobar says there were several places to which the Roms travelled including Wisconsin, New York and another place he can’t remember

Fabien theorizes that, perhaps, *they* (meaning Gilbert, Fabien, Alexi and Sarah) were originally Roms who then became hosts to Nephilim

Escobar tells them that this is not possible as Bohemians cannot ever host Nephilim because their Sun-Ka is too strong

Alexi again points out the Escobar’s sun Ka is quite weak and infers that he MUST be a baby Bohemian

Escobar is slightly affronted by this and replies that it doesn't work that way and that he is 33yo

Sarah quips that so was Jesus when shit started going down for him

#### Remembering Orleans and how shit went down....

Alexi reminds everyone that, in Orleans, there was a fire that was a plexus of pure sun Ka

* such a thing was thought NOT possible but they never followed up on this

* It was also the case that Zora allowed them to observe her with Ka-Sight and she, too, had a small sun core

##### Alexi asks Escobar if he can see or interpret the future, past or present

* he cannot do that but he knows a lot about the past

* he, somewhat confusingly, says that he knows more than he thinks he does

* he is knowledgeable about history

* at certain times he is very good at having good intuition

Alexi is satisfied by this, finally declares that he believes Escobar and that they should now leave

### Leaving Gilbert’s House

Before they do they need to:

* Clear the memory of the people who were shrunk and gased

* Rebury the raised dead with the tentacles
* Figure out whether there is anything else that should be followed up with the leads they have gathered; those being:
	+ The email address on the book
	+ All of the information they have collected about what happened in the town they are currently in

#####

##### Gilbert asks Escobar if he can trace another being’s journey through the astral planes

* Escobar is not aware of the astral planes operating like that

#### Cleaning up the detritus of the night

Alexi uses the surgical shattering of the mind to wipe the shrunken guy’s minds

The spell used to shrink the guards was so effective and persistent that it is unlikely to ever 'wear off' and further spells are needed to reverse the effect

Sarah successfully uses a modify spell twice to unshrink them

Alexi requires a couple of open pits to deal with the men with tentacles

Fabien and Sarah use modify spells to create two pits for the dead people

### After the cleanup

They return to the hotel with Escobar

They get Fabien to send an email with a trojan horse, to the email address in the hopes that they will be able to trace the origin of the reply

It's clear that the email will be very difficult to trace

They send an email to the address (which takes a while due to Fabien's rolls still leaving him as more of a hack than a hacker...)

While Fabien is working Alexi asks Escobar whether Nephilim or Selenim can travel by Mandala

* Escobar can use the effect of the Mandala to facilitate others to travel, however, he cannot do it by himself

Alexi declares that he is very drained and needs to go back to Orleans to recharge

Before he can do so, the email reply comes back

#### Gilbert hears from Joan Crawford...

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### If only they could find an expert on the Arcanas....oh....wait....

Sarah recalls that is is the Arcana of the Pope which feels they have a right to possess humans

Alexi recalls that the minor arcana of the Rosecrucians were using nephilim as a ‘power battery’

They need more information about the Arcanas

Io suggests that they consult with someone who knows a lot about Minor Arcana

Alexi asks Escobar what his interpretation of the letter

Escobar wants to read the letter for himself because he has some kind of aural comprehension defect

He asks what they want to know about about the minor arcana

They are trying to figure out which minor arcana is responsible for kidnapping the Vessels of the aquarians

Escobar says he thinks he may able to answer that

Sarah rolls her eyes and says ‘Jesus’ - then directly and facetiously asks which Aracana Jesus belonged to….

Escobar has some information of on this

#### Project Jesus

‘Project Jesus’ (PJ) was initiated by a selection of different arcanas

* 10.  Wheel of Fortune

* 0. The Fool

* Other groups

PJ was an experiment in which the incarnation of a ‘new-born’ nephilim into a foetus

This had never been done before and backfired badly

The experiment became known colloquially as ‘The Jesus Incident’

* Jesus grew up and refuse to follow the teachings of the nephilim
* Went into the desert then came back, revealing the existence of the Kabbala to the world
* Refused to obey any rule from any immortal
* In the end he had to be killed by another collection of Major and Minor Arcana

The blame for his death was put onto the Templars and the Rosacrucians

The Major Arcana of the Tower (The house of God) was, predictably, involved in covering things up

* They also put pressure on the Major Arcana of the Pope and the Major Arcana of Justice to cover up the mess with the Vessels of the aquarians

It turns out that the Bohemians regard themselves as protectors of the Arcanas

Alexi asks Escobar for a complete list of the Arcanas and he says he will ask his grandmother for a complete list of the Arcanas next time they see her

###

### So what does this all mean???

Conclusions from all of this

* The ninjas are likely to be from the Minor Arcana of the Rose plus Cross (R + C)
	+ The Templars use brute force
	+ The Mysteries use magic
	+ The Synnarchy use of money
	+ R + C use of lies

* The R + C
	+ are often misnamed as the Rosecrucians but they are not the same thing
	+ also known as 'the Cup'
	+ versed in information and counter information
	+ *often the information you find out about them turns out to be lies [hmmmm....Ed.]*
	+ they manipulate other people and bigger forces into opposing each other
	+ advanced in the mastery of their sun Ka
	+ elusive and perform sneak attacks
	+ The R + C appeared with the 'Revelation of the Rosicrucians published in the 16th century
		- implicated a number of prominent figures of the time as members
		- Some admitted to being members and others denied it
		- Many thought that the 'Revelation of the Rosicrucians' was the exposure of a hidden arcana
		- Others thought that it was misdirection by a much, much older Arcana dating back to before the mysteries to the time of Atlantis
		- None of this has been proven
	+ The ultimate goal of the R + C
		- fairly unknown
		- doesn’t appear to be about directly attacking nephilim
		- more about protecting the humans *from* the nephilim - if needs be
		- Seem to be very good at *using* Sun-Ka

### And so we come full circle...

It therefore makes sense that the R+C orchestrated the attack between the Templars and the Pope and, during the affray, slipped in and rescued the Vessels of the aquarians

They also likely constructed the file that was sent to the Templars telling them that the Nephilim were actually there

Previous discoveries implied that there was an ‘inside man’ who was feeding information about what was going on on the farm to the Templars (i.e. Gilbert)

This implies that the Gilbert has been working for the R+C without knowing it

R + C usually have strong Sun Ka which resonates with the fact the Gilberts friends on the farm ALSO has strong Sun Ka

### Sarah’s has a theory...

The nephilim, Satyagraha was either a member of the R+C or working with them

Frederique is likely also a member of the R+C as were the others on the farm

There was a need for Satyagraha to go deep ‘undercover’ and, at the same time have no conscious or subconscious knowledge of doing so - indeed to even remember that he is a nephilim

Satyagraha probably *volunteered* to have his memory erased/suppressed

* this was what Satyagraha was anxious about in the dream recollection

Frederique represents his pathway back

* this was why Satyagraha would have to rely on Frederique
* Gilbert wouldn’t know this now though

Gilbert’s memory of ‘the angel’ was a false memory incepted as a cover story

Whatever the plan of the R + C it required the presence of Satyagraha without him knowing who he was

It is likely that Gilbert himself put the photograph of the false book cover in the house as a clue/trigger for Satyagraha into finding his way back inside the suppressed state.

* The further implication of this is that the letter deserves some further examination as it is likely coded

It is unclear whether Gilbert’s simulacrum’s memories are important to the plan or incidental to it

It may be that it was just Gilbert’s simulacrum’s position in the Vessels of the aquarians which him ideal to put Satyagraha where he needed to be

While Fabien has awoken ‘in shadow’,  Gilbert thought he had but thinks those memories were all fake - that said, there was one period where Gilbert genuinely seemed to have awoken 'in shadow' and walked into a door???

It is not clear whether the ‘appearance’ of the new nephilim/selenim [[Fabien]] and Alexi are similarly hidden conspirators OR they are accidents of the conspiracy - given that they appeared at the same time

The reason for the conspiracy is NOT

## Saturday 7th March 2015

Some questions we have:

* Who is Gilbert/Satyagraha working for?
* rose + cross vs roscicruscians?
* To Escobar: Why is your sun-ka not as bright as expected for someone with your knowledge?
	+ History and knowledge can be gained in other ways. His knowledge is as a bohemian. They can tap into a collective knowledge from people in the present in past. The soul of a good bohemian does not dissolve like other humans, it goes into a special akasha where all the good ones go. Necromancy therefore does not work on bohemians. According to Alexi with other humans they half dissolve and the half that remains a selenim can tap into.
	+ Bohemians can confer knowledge in a similar way to the kabbala.
* What is a Sun-Ka plexus?

### Heading back to Orleans

We decide to go to Orleans in the afternoon; on the plane Sunday 8th March 7am will arrive in Orleans. Alexi left ahead of us. Alexi went to Martensen to the kingdom (antiterre) to recharge over a few days but meets us at the airport. FAEGS are going to the terrain vague. We are entering a manush camp. Zora is a manush. Escobar is Rom. There is one caravan/convoy (travelling group) there. Zora (30 year old) is still there and she arrives to welcome us as well as Johanne, Ahun (Isabelle) and Odorio.

Alexi goes into ka-sight and looks around. He sees the omphalos and sun-ka plexus.

Fabien goes into ka-sight beautiful fountain of colours - structured and controlled - appealing and colourful. Sun plexus is bright and burns your eye. Really cool as it shouldn't exist but its there. Escobar uses his harmony to look around. He wants to see what is here and what is happening. He looks a bit like us in ka-sight but its not as unsightly as nephilims. The terrain vague is quite small - he can see an established nexus with all the elemental kaâ€™s 6 elements 5 plus black moon. Can see two earth nephilims, ahuman with strong sun-ka (Johanne) and he can see the elements in FAGS. No other zoomorphs like Io. Harmony is not like sight itâ€™s like being harmony with the environment and able to sense it all.

### Some bohemian background

Zora asks how we know another bohemian - we tell her how he found us.

All bohemians have romney ancestry. There are 4 Kumpanyi of bohemians. Each are composed of different convoys:

1. The manush - the magic and the fields - messengers and explorers,
2. The roms - historians and politicians.
3. The gitanos - fighters
4. The gypsies - the ones that lives on rivers - gathers of informations and communicating with major arcana

Bohemians are nephilims friends, never be afraid of bohemians. Overseeâ€™ers of the major arcana. The mesh that holds things together. They remind people (major arcana) of their roles. They have their hands in everything and every historical event. The most significant of which was the fall of akananaton. To support the endeavours of the nephilim. Significant event - WW2 - trying to rid the world of bohemians.

Fabien to Zora: How does the sun plexus exist? Z: itâ€™s a bohemian trick, Fabien would not be able to comprehend it. Not necessary to have one for the omphalos, itâ€™s not for communications between bohemians.

Alexi uses the blue flames of the last moment to triangulate the nephilim in Rosamund - directs us towards Australia. One of the shards of Astre is there - Air fragment? However our plan will be to go to Mexico first.

### Mexico and why we are going there.

Alexi - Â born and raised there. His parents went to USA for work and died in a car accident. Xochimilco. Raised by grandparents Magdalena Rose De Torres and grandfather was absent and aloof secret drunk and had a huge passion for butterflies - barely remember him for some reason. He told stories of butterflies being born white and gaining colors from the Â flowers they feed from. Zora shared with Alexi a book called the Soul Thief, shared a magazine article that Alexi then found a book on. The image of the man on the back of the book matches the image of the man he knows as his grandfather.

The problem is there is a few things that don't align. Alexi spoke to his dead grandparents - however grandmother said that his grandfather had no passion for butterflies. When Alexi spoke to his grandfather - he could not remember the island or the stories told as a child.

Island of the dolls - bequeathed or waiting for the heir of the torres family. The heir has not come to claim it. The island is popular as it is very creepy. El mary pesa would do stuff there. See bookâ€¦

Flash to japan to what looked like a young version of his grandmother but could not be her as its current times.

El ma posa - he communicates with dead in exchange for peoples soul when they die. Recently people who made contracts with him saw him and he had not aged a day. Necromancer that has not aged a day.

### Next time:

Use the triplets to find alexis memory of his grandfather...