Part I: The Converging Six

**Part I: The Converging Six**, sometimes known as the Synchronized Six, is the first installment of Six Chances. It focuses on Olivier Chance.

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## Plot

### [0] Re-union

#### 0.1, 0.2: Prince Swindler

Olive is attending Professor Morgan's lecture on vitae at New Ram University. Since he knows his guards' rotation, he chooses to slip out the classroom when one of his more lax guards takes the place of his head royal guard Alexander Charming. He hides away from them in a tree and is then visited by a phantom of his deceased sister Lavender Chance. While admiring the cityscape, he spots an arrow surrounded with flame-like vitae hurtling towards him from an unknown direction. Instead of using his conducting to defend himself, he allows it to hit him.

Meanwhile, Cadence Morello, disguised as Antonio Figeroli through transmutation, sits inside the TwinStars Pub in the Twin Cities of Gemini. She is trying to get information on conductors stolen from the Romano Family from a man named Tulio there. She tricks Tulio into revealing that he’s been selling conductors on Romano Family territory before revealing her true self to him. But before she can bring him in or ask him anything else, however, an explosive in the bar goes off and knocks her away.

#### 0.3, 0.4: Soldier, Pirate

Werner is preparing an ambush against a group of Aquarians near the Aquarian-Capricornian border. Despite their being medical officers among them, he orders his men to open fire. In the aftermath, one of his men stumbles out of cover at the horror of what they’ve done. Werner tries to get him to sit back down but is shot in the shoulder by a vitae ray from a surviving Aquarian.

Maria is raiding a foreign ship. She engages in battle and tears apart an opposing crew, despite Conta’s concerns. In the middle of all the chaos, she is charged by a boy who holds an explosive conductor. The conductor activates, knocking her right off the ship and into the waters.

#### 0.5, 0.6: Chieftain's Daughter, Peacekeeper

Atienna is at the tribal dining hall with the other chieftain families. She ignores the conversation and busies herself reading a book, until she is brought into an argument by her brother Bachiru and her friend Safiyah. Bachiru wants to aid Sagittarius who has come for their help because they’re being dragged into Capricorn’s and Aquarius’s conflict and because they are former war allies, while Safiyah wants them to remain uninvolved. Atienna manages to calm the argument and continues reading. Then she sips on poisoned wine and falls unconscious.

In the Serpens Establishment, Jericho is told that he is approved to take on additional cases by Alice Kingsley although she personally disapproves of it. He discovers he’s been assigned a case to act as a middleman between Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Capricorn in the Capricornian-Aquarian border conflict, despite wanting to be put on an ELPIS case. He walks down the steps of the Serpens Establishment and closes his eyes after feeling nausea at looking at a local reservoir. Then he is pushed down the steps by an unseen person, leaving him gravely injured.