Adventure diary

## JAN 10th 2015 Saturday

### Explosion...

Alexi Catalan and Fabien Bastien both live in an apartment building in Lyon, France. Fabien is living in his own apartment and Alexi staying in one owned by one of his consultancy clients.
There is an explosion in the basement which knocks both of them unconscious.   When they awaken after the explosion, they are both aware that they are now, somehow, different...

After the explosion, Fabien leaves a statement with two police officers:Aristide Laurent and Mounir Elkaiz.

### Alexi and Fabien meet.

Alexi finds a cat and knocks on Fabien's door, to check if it's his.   The cat has a collar with the name Madame Rolande and an address on it.
The cat was owned by both Madame Rolande and a woman named Adele.
Adele and her partner,   Rachid's, shop was the source of the explosion in the basement.  The shop is next door to Fabien's building. Adele and Rachid are believed to have perished in the explosion.

### Mrs Rolande gives task of finding book

Alexi and Fabien go to the address on the cat's collar which turns out to be the retirement home of Madame Rolande. M. Rolonde asks Alexi and Fabien to find a book that she lent to Adele and which, she hopes, is still in the exploded shop.

Fabien, asks Neboja, a tenant of his in the building, to help break  into Adele's shop.  The book is nowhere to be found.   There are, however, flyers for a gathering, at midnight on Friday, at the Old Temple of Cybele.  There is also a laboratory, of sorts, full of chemistry  type equipment, in the basement which was likely the source of the explosion.

Janette Dupres comes into Adele's shop, claims her company - Ultimate Constructions - has purchased the shop and all of it's contents.

Locations
Map of Lyon <Right-click and open in new tab>

Later in the game we find out that
# Io the cat was the cat above; Io the cat is a friend of Fizz.   She is an "animorph":/Animorph Nephilim and turns out to be a useful resource for Alexi and Fabien

## JAN 11th 2015 Sunday

### Return to Madame Rolande’s without book. Book is about magic

Fabien Bastien and Alexi Catalan go back to Madame Rolande. She is disappointed that they could not find her book. She reveals that Adele is a witch, of sorts, and that the book is a magic instructional (grimoire?) book. Adele and Rachid are part of a cult – The Cult of Cybele.

### Facebook page called Cybele and Attis

There is a secret Facebook page called “Cybele and Attis” and the page admins are:

* Adele

* Rachid
* Marianne Duzbec

### Dinner with Marianne Duzbec - she has the book

Fabien and Alex send Marianne Duzbec a Facebook invitation to join them for dinner that evening. At dinner they find out that Marianne has the book they were looking for. She also tells them of a man named James who might have something called “the true sight”.  Marianne Duzbec then tells them of of a pendant that Adele has which confers on the wearer the ability to use ‘the true sight". Pendant is probably in a jewellery box at Adele’s place.

### Meeting of the Cult of Cybele

Alexi and Fabien go to the Temple of Cybele and attend the meeting.
Here they meet James and he is suspicious of both of them.
It becomes clear that Adele and James were not practicing the same type of magic.
As it’s getting late we agree to meet them the next day at a tomb where they will be basking in the energy of a deceased clairvoyant/healer.

## JAN 12th 2015 Monday

### Retrieving the pendant

Alexi and Fabien retrieve the pendant artefact the Eye of Horus from Adele’s place.
They meet up with Marianne Duzbec and James at the Tomb of Maitre Philippe.

### M. Rolandes book: Solving a quiz

Marianne Duzbec gives them M. Rolande’s book. They are required to solve a puzzle in order to read the contents.

They also try out the pendant and see the world in true sight Ka-sight for the first time. James wants to know where they got the pendant from.

### James reveals its about Nephilim and Selenim magic

James asks if he can try something on Alexi and Fabien to get answers and they consent to allow it. His eyes roll upwards and he looks at each of them, asking if they are trying to trap him – they both say no.
Both Alexi and Fabien are upset by the experience as it was intrusive and left them feeling powerless and manipulated.
Afterwards James apologizes for scaring them. James now believes they are stumbling in the dark and likely to kill themselves in the process.

Alexi then asks James about the story in the book. James reveals there are 6 known schools of magic: Three for Nephilim and three for Selenim

### historical info about James and Cybele

James reveals things about himself:

* he will kill us if we tell anyone
* he’s very old – thousands of years
* he’s looking for an artefact in Lyon. His family have been after it for 2000 years.
* he is a Selenim (he is neither proud of it or happy about that):
* Cybele was his lover – she unleashed the Blade of Lugh that turned him into a Selenim

2000 years ago there was a war in Ireland between Selenim and Nephilim. James went by the name Attis. Cybele used the blade and was punished and imprisoned by Lugh. Artefacts were captured with her. Cybele has a large earth artefact. The artefact should resonate and easily be found but with all the water magic in Lyon is making it difficult to locate. Cybele should have been imprisoned for 500 years and then freed, but she has not been seen since being imprisoned.

The artefact:

* bound to James; pulled him to Lyon but now he can’t feel it anymore. Fulgurance between lovers that pulls them together. James thinks someone is blocking him. He also thinks Adele and Rachid (both are Nephilims) have been captured. He thinks certain humans (templars) are behind the capture and seizing their shop/building.

## JAN 13th 2015 Tuesday

### Alexi gains Selenim Ka-sight outside the Cloud Museum.

Alexi, Fabien  and James  meet outside the Cloud Museum, Lyon. Use Eye of Horus pendant to reveal an air plexus – likely due to the cloud appearance of the museum. Whilst using the pendant Alexi gains the skill of Selenim Ka-sight, meaning he can do it without the pendant. James is confused as only immortals (Selenim and Nephilim) can see in Ka-sight.

### Fourviere Basilica

In the afternoon we head up to the Fourviere. The gold statue of Mary at the Basilica has very strong currents in Ka-sight, looks like looking into the sun. Human faith turns into magic.

### Madame Rolande is missing

We decide to go back to Madame Rolande, but she is missing with her possessions. The police (2 men) came to visit her and then she disappeared. We look for her at Adele’s but she’s not there. While at Adele’s shop we try out Ka-sight and find foci and James shows us how to do basic alchemy in the lab in the basement.

### In comes Gilbert Woodbury

Tuesday evening: Gilbert Woodbury knocks on Fabien’s door. Looking for Adele and Rachid, he seems genuinely surprised they are dead. Gilbert learned magic in a commune in the USA. He appears to have a religious streak and a magical/spiritual background. He found Fabien by tracking him magically. The cat is also back at the door.

## JAN 14th 2015 Wednesday

### Police interview Fabien

Police interview Fabien regarding Madame Rolande’s disappearance. It’s the same two policemen that interviewed him after the explosion (Mounir Elkaiz and Aristide Laurent).

* They know about Fabien’s hacking into Madame Rolande details and
* They know about the missing pendant from Adele’s home. Fabien reveals that he took then pendant, he think its magical but he subsequently lost it.
* They ask who Alexi is – just a friend.

### Farm in Ardeche destroyed

Combine action of Major Arcana of Justice and Pope against what they believe to be Templars

## JAN 15th 2015 Thursday

### Looking for James' artefact in Lyon

What we know about elements fields in Lyon: We know there is an Air Plexus where the two rivers meet at the Cloud Museum. Saw with pendant and our own Ka-sight.

James asked us to check out a few places (colouring in the map… need to link) He hoped that the sun-Ka from religious places would enhance the earth Ka and lead him to the artefact.

* **Church of St Mary** -
* James helps form a **convent of nuns at Place des Terreaux**. Now an art museum.
* Temple of Attis – in the centre of Lyon,. Converted into a church – **Church of Martyrs**. (don’t think we ever checked this one out)

Start:
Firstly we’re in the Traboule (area with all the courtyards and hidden passageways etc.) and go into Ka-sight:

* the earth field is fairly strong,
* water a little bit but not as strong.
Other than that it looks normal. This makes sense since we are between caves and water.
* Up at the **Church of St Mary** all we can see is a blinding sun-Ka and then from there we see earth Ka pouring down the hill and into the city

then we go to Place des Terreaux square.
In Ka-sight:

* the old convent (art museum) has earth fields and everything (specifically the Ley Lines) from the north is blocked by the water fields at the Place des Terreaux. There is only a slight trickle of earth Ley Lines heading south.

We stand on top of Ley Lines of earth going North-South: we cast a spell: I sense the Ley Line with the spyglass faraway. The Ley Lines connected like veins all over – this indicates that the earth field lines are actually strong. We see the line going south, down to Sainte Blandine Church. The line is getting weaker as it heads south.

We then went to Sainte Blandine Church and the earth field lines faded away and strong water fields formed. Something near here is blocking the earth fields. Thinking we might have to head into the cloud museum and find the artefact in there. We organise to have a personal tour of the museum the next day. We might try locate Madame Rolande before the end of today.

### Finding Madame Rolande, Zora

It’s late in the evening and back at Fabien’s apartment. Gilbert is summoning a creature known for tracking. Using the note from Madame Rolande they are going to locate her… following rapidly ran from the croix-rousse, but they lost her trace at a block near where the freeway crosses the peninsula. Looking around in Ka-sight:

* strong water fields,
* there’s a pocket near the river where there is a more balanced appearance of fields.

Go to that area and see a cat on a boat – It’s the cat. We board the boat and Madame Rolande is there. She’s excited to see us but Io not impressed.

Ask Madame Rolande a few questions as this is what we learn:

* She thinks we’re baby Nephilim and Selenim; she has researched Nephilim being born – which is usually impossible. The only one she knows of exploded Astre into fragmented pieces. They are not fit to survive this world.
* that Fizz who was in Rachid’s body, took Madame Rolande’s body as a new simulacrum and will take a new simulacrum called Farid soon.
* Fizz has a powerful pentacle with a lot of detail.
* Cat is a Nephilim too called Io.

Io is using a hiding magic spell on us to hide our pentacles. She cant teach us this as we are not advanced enough. The spell is linked to an object we are wearing all the time.

* Fabien’s father’s watch.
* Alexi’s pendant and
* Gilbert's pendant.?
If we take off the object then the pentacle can be seen.

Fizz introduces us Zora. She is a gypsy/bohemian and it’s through her family that she knew we were going to be born. She is human with a small sun-core. They are very good at predicting things past present and future.

### First fight

We are making our way home and 3 shadows are standing in front of us. Calling us names, want our wallets. Going to mug us.

* Main guy stabs himself after threatening and trying to throw a knife at us.
* One of the three, Alexi got in a head lock is now unconscious.
* The main guy and another run away.

Searched the unconscious guy: brass knuckle, cash – Euro100, pot, no identification. Alexi kept the brass knuckle..

Called James on the phone. He thinks it might be a test, but since we didn’t use any magic it might be okay. We hold the guy down as he wakes up. He wants to kill us. He says it was not personal – he was not trying to hurt us. Two guys – black guy and an Arab – told them to attack/ruffle us – showed them our pictures. We decided to let the guy go.

We called Fizz and we tell him/her all of what happened tonight. Alexi wants to come and “play” with the body of Madame Rolande after Fizz takes Farid’s body.

sounds like the two guys might be the two policeman encountered after the explosion in Lyon.

## JAN 16th 2015 Friday

### The Cloud Museum

At the Cloud Museum, the 3 of us plus James. Welcomed by Julien Girard who shows us the museum.

We ask if we can see behind the scenes – Alexi tries to manipulate him but rolls a 3 and so that doesn’t quite work but he can show us the storage area – under the museum, administration, etc…

Walks us through the exhibitions quickly, then head under the museum. Old farming equipment hundreds of horse shoes. Very high number of artefact. They have a lot of artefacts – maybe more than others. While Julien is distracted Gilbert and Fabien disappear off and go into Ka-sight. All water and a little bit of air. James is very depressed by that. He feels depleted and drowned probably because it’s water and not earth.

### Sensing the pull of water from the "Anearobic specimens" room

There is something that calls and resonates with Fabien – it’s water that is drawing him. Gilbert casts a spell “I sense the pull of the water with the spyglass far away” he feels the water pulling him along corridors. Julien remains distracted by Alexi. Gilbert arrives in front of a door called anaerobic specimens – with massive warning signs and the door is closed with pressurised seals. We look through the window of the door and there are hanging gas masks and bottles of oxygen. The door is locked and we need a swipe card to get in. Suspect specimens that degrade in oxygen.

We decided to get Julien’s business card, so we can track him later. Also, need to get his access card then alter it so we can get into the room of anaerobic specimens.

On the tram after work Julien is on there with his access card on the lanyard around his neck. Fabien casts a spell: “I modify the lanyard with the blade” this cuts is lanyard and it falls to the floor; he doesn’t notice.

### Fabien creates a card to get us into the cloud museum

Fabien uses a card reader to make a copy of the card and give it full access to all areas. The original card is dropped back at the museum reception the next day.

## JAN 17th 2015 Saturday

### Akasha at the Cloud Museum

We go to the cloud museum. James drop off Julien’s card at the front desk. Summon a Kabbalist to make the door to the area in the storage area of the museum look hidden. We make our way into the anaerobic area and swipe the card for access. Opens – airlock area with masks 4 of us – James + the 3 of us. James is looking at a 2000 year old metal door (bronze) – go into Ka-sight – looks normal for something made of metal – around it, it’s like the walls are made of sun – high concentration of the sun, feels like its etched in sun. This is a door to an Akasha. We are going to enter the Akasha but before we do, James’ appearance changes drastically – skin goes glossy and massive claws – blades made of crystals, Gilbert and Fabien use armour.

Open the door to an underground cave with an underground lake. In the middle of the lake there are man-made square pillars up to the ceiling of the cave marking out an island. On this island there are torches on the columns giving it a medieval appearance.

### Finding Cybele

In the middle of this island is a hospital bed with a person sleeping on it and lots of Iv fluids and machines hooked to it. Mid fifties dark hair. Go into Ka-sight and all the fields are water even the columns etc, women on the bed is covered in gold light emitting dust. James does not recognise the women but recognises the magic – he thinks this is Cybele. There is a bridge going to the island… the glittering is her magic – she was really good at making objects that were magical. She was sure that she had found a sun based magic in Scandinavia. This was thought to be impossible.

James goes to cross the bridge. Two lions appear from the water. Green one and a brown one. Circling the bed. He believes they are dragon effects – creatures made of magic, quite aggressive. Need to be destroyed.

### The white-haired man destroys the lions and saves Fabien

James pulls a weapon out of his chest and a powerful force/magic does something to Fabien. It increases his strength and everything is not difficult. Suddenly a guy appears next to Fabien. He is a young guy (20 something) with white hair. The guy destroys the lions for us, then James puts his weapon away and the guy disappears. James removes all the tubes and detaches Cybele from the machines etc. James has no idea who the guy was.

### Cybele en-stased

Cybele awakens – recognises James. About to touch him and then recoils and apologises. She looks at us and wants to know who we are. James tells her it’s been 2000 years. Then she just dies. James grabs a statue and puts over the dying women. I go into Ka-sight and see that the Nephilim is in the statue and the pentacle no longer exists in the women. This puts the Nephilim in stasis. We hurry out and unsummon our armour: we head out of the museum and unsummon the creature keeping the door hidden. James is going to find a body for Cybele.

Later Fabien hacks into the museum computer system to deletes all footage of the day. Checks the footage before deleting it and discovers that the last and only person to go into that room was Herve Failinis. We know that it is Failinis because we compare photos from google - Alexi's suggestion to compare the people from CCPL.

The akasha might contain the water fragment of Astre

## JAN 18th 2015 Sunday

### Debrief with Farid (fizz) and Zora.

Farid: North African guy - very welcoming. Fill him in on the last 24 hours. We were looking for something in the water field that was pulling us - It pulled us towards an akasha . 2 lions guardians of the akasha - one was green and one was tan. Chimeras (guardians).  James pulled something out of himself that increased  Fabien's abilities/magic. Sent Gilbert out so he wouldn’t get affected by this magic. This new guy appears next to me removes the lions/kills them and the akasha is then filled with black moon. Might not be able to go back in as the contamination might have stained it. Might have to ask James if we can go back.

Fabien takes off his watch and Farid looks at him in Ka-sight; can see an aura around him that shows he was amplified with magic. Farid, thinks might be a creature of the Kabbala, another Nephilim/akasha traveler. She thinks the lions were killed using the water fields. They were creatures of water fields and he modified the water fields to stretch the fields and make the lions disappear… also the weather has completely changed and she thinks the water fields are very depleted and that it might be from whatever happened last night. Cybele was kept in a human body not in a stasis which is unusual - perhaps not magic - humans keeping her captive. Maybe harnessing power. When we found Cybele she was covered in a sun-Ka dusting that was probably keeping her body alive. She has always bragged that if anyone was going to master sun-Ka she could.

Farid knows nothing about the families community of the preservation society of Lyon…

When Fabien has a shower today he notices blood colour red on the root of his hairs and nails.

### Private chats with Zora

Fill in the details: hand written

Call James and invite him to the boat. He arrives - he’s very excited like a new person. James, Zora, Farid and the 3 of us all together. James thanks us profusely. He didn't think we would actually pull through but he's very excited for that. We would like to be there when Cybele is reawakened.

### History about James, Cybele and the blade of Lugh

James can’t explain what happened with Zora and Farid around. So he will explain what happened but he feels like it is a suicide move to do so but he owes us. He used to be in Ireland 2000 years ago with Cybele and a bunch of friends. They were a happy bunch of Nephilims, Fomor Selenim which were there first, tribes of Dana - bunch of Nephilim immigrants to Ireland. Selenim were already there and they got into a war and they butchered each other. Lugh was their chief, and fighting the Selenim. Cybele was good at making magical shields, weapons, boats etc… during one of the fights they stole a blade of orichalcum = that can turn a Nephilim into Selenim. At some point during the war they stole the blade and gave it to Cybele. She thought she could turn it into a weapon they could use but she stuffed it up and it kept sucking in all the elemental chromatic fields leaving only Black-moon. Therefore leaving a big contamination specifically to Nephilim. Everything that tried to fiddle with it got contaminated by it. This blade was later called the Blade of Fire and the Blade of Lugh. Once the blade is out of its sheath it kills everything - Nephilim and nature because it sucks in chromatic fields and therefore plants and everything die.

Attis was trying to help Cybele out and he became contaminated really quickly. Dunking the blade into a cauldron of poison keeps it hidden and controlled. The cauldron is actually James. The blade is within his chest. If anyone finds out that he is the cauldron, he will be hunted. He keeps the blade inside him at all times. James used the sword to channel energy through Fabien, to quiet down the lions. The lions disappeared because of the white-haired man though.

There are less than 50 of blades of orichalcum - this one is the most powerful one of all. Everyone would be after him if they knew.

### Hervers Failinis

Asked James what he knew of Hervers Failinis. He doesn't know anything of him. This was the guy with access to the akasha in the cloud museum

### Ask Fizz for good places to go for learning about spells, alchemy, Kabbala.

* Alchemy was discovered in the Middle Ages - so hidden in architecture. Anything that in round arches - roman or gothic - alchemy recipes there.
* Magic Spells and analogical words are everywhere.
* Kabbala - in very old times 0 BC, but now in any for of art painting, buildings - anything that can be codified and can last. In Lyon - old Lyon the traboule - old painting in the place de terreau - museum of art. So can do research as well to find objects.

Head to museum of art: spans a lot of centuries - different ages etc. Fabien rolls a 7 so he finds something but probably not very useful thing - Finds a poster - newish art from the fifties - sharp anges - edgy, just a poster from an event but there is a focus in it. To decipher this one - need a knowledge of drawing or the art of the 50’s. After a long day Fabien focuses on the orange area in the poster (unusual colour) in Ka-sight and it reveals a spell called "Localising a plexus" - it's in spellcasting.

## JAN 20th 2015 Tuesday

### Gilbert's family in danger

Zora informed Gilbert that his family was in danger, Gilbert tried to contact his family in the USA and warn them that this gypsy had a premonition and the family was in danger.

### Bosc Ardèche - farm where Gilbert is from

We go to the Bosc Ardèche, it's dry, mountainous and very isolated. Gilbert wants to find out about the Woodbury family's origin and information about the pendant that hides the pentacle whilst visiting the farm/commune. There were 4 humans that were there and they trained Gilbert in Bosc Ardèche. Practicing sun-Ka magic (Cybele's magic?) - their magic makes them invisible or not noticeable.

### Bosc Ardèche - farm - burned

At the farm it appears there has been a mass suicide - the farm is burnt shell with no roof. The main beam in the ceiling has melted in the centre and that's really weird since it's made of wood. Gilbert looks for a sigil but finds none. In Ka-sight: fields are modified, remnants of magic must've occurred here. No sun-cores seen so the 4 are gone. Gilbert is examining the outside of the building after finding nothing of interest/value on the inside. The magic fields around the doors and window frames are weaker like they’ve been leached. Alexiand Fabien look around. Alexi can locate dead people - as he is a Selenim. In Ka-sight he sees 4 flashes buried a metre under the ground and he sees shaving of grey metal (orichalcum) in the air around one window and one door in the main building. The rest of us can only see depleted fields. We deduce there was a fight between Nephilims and humans.

***<<this is unclear need you guys to fill in gaps here>>***

***Gilbert talks to the Kabbala guy? and allows one of the 4 of us to go into the grave site to do necromancy and talk to the 4 humans that were buried and hidden here.  They were human remains of what were Nephilim. One of the dead (blonde 50 years old) is being spoken to with Alexi - simulacrum for 30 years. Says a young black man did this - shot them and buried them. when simulacrum was fighting back to the surface: memories: walls of fire and shooting, tried to run away but couldn’t. Was in an laboratory, creepy people around them. black guy was wounded. Francoise On subway station white tiles. trying to reach through a wall, freaked out, asked people where he was and got freaked out. Nadia: got shot a lot. Turned to pieces by rocket launcher. 40 years in simulacrum. Lots of police. Fireman. Red eyed guy that dragged her to the hole - black guy. Alexi takes photos of the 3 bodies for us.***

***<< to here>>***

Humans with a lot of weapons and orichalcum. Nephilim buried fallen simulacrum. sounds like Templars.

## JAN 21st 2015 Wednesday

### Village Sablière

It’s a nice day. James has to leave in 2 days. We decide to go visit the village Sablière - we go to the pub Elaine’s. We are welcomed by a man called Julot - bearish - farmer turned pub master - open shirt, French cap on the head, friendly. We asked about the farm; he replied thatit burned - massive fire a few days ago. All dead - no one knows exactly what happened - by the time the firemen came it was all done - 8km winding roads (30 mins). The house is fairly isolated and almost never see people from the house - only saw one of them regularly for shopping. They haven’t been back since - so suspect they’re dead. 5 of them they suspect - one of which was Asian (Gilbert).

### Julot is a Nephilim from Justice

James tells us to get in the car and then reveals that Julot was a Nephilim and Julot might have realised that James is a Selenim. He’s fairly sure that Julot is a metamorph. So one of the dead Nephilim at the farm might have jumped into Julot’s body.  James thinks he a satire like a faun. Gilbert and Fabien decide to go back into the pub - go into Ka-sight, so does Julot. He is very confused by the fact that our pentacles are hidden. He must have a spell or something where we cannot resist answering his questions or moving. He asks if we were sent by the Tower? - no is our answer. He wants to know why we’re investigating the farm. From the next question we can start resisting. He asks if we were friends with the Templars. Gilbert says they were not Templars. Julot wants to know what Arcana we're from. We have no malicious intentions. We resist and now we can move - he gave us a potion when were having breakfast, that's what froze us.

### Julot reveals that Justice destroyed the farm

We would like to find out more about the people on the farm. The Arcana of Justice would probably want to know this. Justice sent Julot him here, Justice attacked the farm. Akhenaten made the Arcana including Justice. Julot is going to organise a contact to meet us in Lyon -  who will ask questions about those people from the farm and why the Justice attacked them. Julot was contracted by the “Justice”, has only been there 2 days - was released from prison to keep an eye on the area - see if any Templars come past and ask any questions; or people from the Tower. The Tower Arcana - is very angry - they have been kicking and screaming to investigate what was going on on the farm - a lot of cover up that happened. Essentially all the covering up is against the rules. The whole attack was a cover up of some sort. Julot tells us we can contact him on his mobile. He tells us that 4 people were killed and their bodies sent to Privas.

### Some history about the Tower, Justice, Force, Merlin, Drakaon

The Tower thinks that there should be a massive separation between humans and anything magical. So where another Arcana has another plan and it goes bad then the Tower gets upset.  Justice are the police of the non-mortals. James thought that Lugh was the leader of Justice, but we learn he was the head of the force/Arcana of Strength. Merlin is now the head of the force. Merlin tamed (put it in a sleep) the Drakaon. The Force fight and hunt the dragon effects. Nephilim that have the same view on the world clump together. They are organised into 22 Major Arcana (cards of the tarots)

### Got to Privas

Takes us a few hours - plan get a look at the bodies. Fabien hacks into their files and reveals - 4 bodies extracted on the farm - skeletons were all that was left - all Caucasian 2 male and 2 female and were buried in a local cemetery. We go to the cemetery and Alexi needs to recharge. We cast a spell to remove the earth into an open grave - and find the bones. With some burned flesh attached. We take all 4 skulls.

## JAN 22nd 2015 Thursday

### Face reconstruction on skulls using spell and mud

We used a spell to make mud take on the skull give the appearance of life - a man and women was seen and they are not the people Gilbert knew from the farm in the country. Photo taken. These are non recognisable to Gilbert. Another man and a women.  Photo taken and compared to Facebook facial recognition - rolled at 20 - we find 3 of them and they are people that died in road accidents or old age - local to the area - all died at different times.

## JAN 23rd 2015 Friday

### Getting Cybele out of her stasis

Cybele is a earth Nephilim - she is in a stasis - and needs more energy to “charge her Ka” so she can come out. We need to find a plexus for her to come out of stasis. Alexi called James to arrange a visit to a small village to find a plexus. We will cast a spell for finding the plexus. A car turns up and there is James and a quiet lady in the back. We drive to a village of Perouge - medieval village on top of a hill. James walks towards the forest with the lady in tow - Fabien rolls a 19 and does a spell to locate an Earth Plexus: pulled into a glade - can feel the earth all around us. We all go into Ka-sight. Earth fields are converging into one. Feels a little dangerous and untamed. The lady is standing in the centre of the glade with the stasis in her hand she glows golden and then suddenly opens her eyes Cybele has returned. She is reflecting light like she’s metallic. She wants to know where everyone is. James explains that he has lost touch with the others, she says she will contact the others soon.

### Cybele carves a symbol into our pentacles

She sees the 3 of us and asks who we are, James explains. Her nails look like black claws, her eyes go golden, she goes into Ka-sight or something and says we’re hiding something. She looks At Fabien's watch and the other's pendants/medallions. She drew a symbol on each one of us. This gave us jera-symbol - carved into our sun-core/pentacle. It is rumoured that she could use these symbols, as a different type of magic. When she was found in the museum she had the same symbol glowing on her. She is acting a little crazy and airy-fairy. James looks at her in Ka-sight and she has lost a lot of her knowledge - the essence of a Nephilim. She seems to have lost a lot of her magic. James thinks its unusual that she was able to do it on both Nephilim and Selenim and do it right onto our sun-core.She wants to know where Lucharba is. James hasn’t heard from him in 2000 years. She says 6 days and he’ll be back.

### Futhark and Runes

She offers to give Gilbert a spell: "A shape in the core". She appears to be shedding skin like a snake, she carves a symbol into the ground and loses some of her claw. She circles symbol of Jera on the ground and asks Gilbert if he can see it. In ka-sight we can all see it etched into our sun-Ka's. She wants us to find and catch the symbols, and use them. Symbols are runes. When you look at a person in ka-sight you can see if they are carrying a rune and going through an intense emotion. Different emotions - different rules and then you empathise to catch the rune. Magic is called Futhark, divination is the skill and it's not difficult. Cybele is a rune caster.

### Mistweaver, the game, the curse?

Gilbert asks about our watch/medallions and how they work. What we know is: "Fizz swapped our original watches/medallions for the ones that Zora made. The new one are what hide our pentacles.". She replies that she doesn’t want any more trouble from Mistweaver - siblings fight and destroy cities.  She says we are babies. She was a baby once, on the island in Atlantis. Cursed by the Mistweaver. Something about a game? She says that Lucharba and her and the others were part of this game. Experiment, the curse was to be reawaken at the same time. They remain in a stasis until the last one dies then they all awaken at the same time. We think that the Mistweaver has to be a creature of the Kabbala. They are the only ones that can curse that effectively. Travellers must be the Bohemians e.g like Zora. People involved in the game destroyed cities and that’s probably why they were cursed.

James doesn’t know much about the runes. Cybele’s behaviour is like a naughty child. She finally falls asleep after annoying us in the car all afternoon. Her metamorph is a golden dragon. Hence what we saw with the claws and hoarding. James knows nothing about Mistweaver.

Lucharba is an air Nephilim. Will be likely reawaken on an air day (Thursday).

### Mexican Butterfly - Alexi?

Everyone who has a sun-core reflects different emotions, at different times. Emotions are like flowers and flowers attract butterflies. Different type of butterflies. Cybele keeps calling Alexi a butterfly over and over. Mexican butterfly. Emotions create runes, from emotions and Selenim can feed on sun-cores.

seeing the rune reminds of us our own transformation <<where did we see this, in Alexi??>>

Dagaz: transformation, new beginnings

## JAN 24th 2015 Saturday

Phonecall from Fizz: wants us to come past and visit when we get a chance.

### Can Cybele's memories be restored?

James contacted the Temperance - Major Arcana (healers) or see what can be done about Cybele and her memories. They’re not sure how long it will take to get her memories and normalcy back. James wants to wait for Lucharba to come back - the spell holding Cybele and Lucharba and other Nephilim in stasis has now been reset, so they will all resurface soon. This curse is cyclical and once they are all reawaken if they go back into their stasis they will remain like that until the last one is in its stasis. Cybele has a hoard of magic things somewhere. Although these things were taken after the war and don’t know where it is.

### Informing Fizz, Zora and meeting Io

Told about Templars and Gilbert’s missing friends. She is concerned about the Templars etc. Fizz informs us of “Io” the cat that can guide us. Fizz and Zora don't know about futhark. They say it would change the face of magic forever if there was a sun-Ka magic. Would be disturbing to them as it means humans, Nephilim and Selenim would be able to do the same magic.

### Zora informs Fabien of heat in Australia at the same time as Lyon

Zora on her own reminds Fabien that after our akasha experience, Lyon was hot afterwards for a week; this coincided with a very hot week in Australia with a lot of bush fires. Zora thinks these things are related.

### Zora informs us of Pneumopathies in Orleans

Strange cases of pneumopathy in Orleans. They think its an atypical SE Asian strain. Have not isolated the source. Have isolated people with it. They have some of the symptoms like fever and cough. Dr Charles Xavier Villerand - Vietnamese strain but none of the people have been to Vietnam so seems weird. Zora thinks we should look into this. This could be a link to other new Nephilims that just exploded.

### Driving up to Orleans; hacking the hospital records

Hack into hospital: looking into medical records, staff records, communications. Rolled an 11. Dr Charles Xavier Villerand: specialist and consultant at the hospital at the moment. His area of expertise: Tropical diseases and contagious diseases. Search emails - nothing overly specific. They don’t know the source of the disease. A few deaths. 20 patients -  no link yet between the patients. Look into one patient - less than a week, fairly aggressive, was at home, couldn't breathe properly - taken to hospital. There is a report that all the cases are isolated. No one has become sick around them. Affects both lungs and oxygen. After a few days extremities affected. They are keeping the patients unconscious.

### Orleans and meet Gaston

Arrive in Orleans to meet with Gaston at Hotel Escale - at the bar: Gaston is a representative of Justice. For a brief second he goes into Ka-sight and sees we’re hiding out pentacles. He knew from Julot that our pentacles were hidden. We quickly go into Ka-sight he is a Faerim earth Nephilim quite elaborate pentacle therefore quite experienced/powerful. Gilbert checked if he had a rune - and he didn’t.

### Q and A with Gaston

* Gaston wants to know what Gilbert knows about these 4 people from the farm. The 4 people buried were simulacrum. The 4 burned people were also not the 4 people on the farm. Looks like a cover up. They may not be Templars but they are trying to make it look like they were Templars.

* Why would they do that? Joint attack from the Pope and Justice.
* The Nephilim survivors take the stasis of the ones whose simulacrums where killed at the farm to the USA to the Vessels of the Aquarian (a branch of the pope) for new simulacrum.
* 2 days after the farm burned down, they arrived in the USA for new simulacrum but something has happened and they disappeared as did all the Vessels of the Aquarian.
* Vatra (Justice) who was injured in the attack at the farm, stayed in France to heal. He is the only one from the attack on the farm to survive or not disappear. He is currently is the USA investigating with one other person from the Pope.
* The Tower is a bit upset because they're trying to keep this whole thing under wraps. The agents and their stasis are missing.
* Gaston says its been 8000 years since there were new Nephilim. We decided not to tell him anything.

Gilbert sends text to Julot to tell him more about what's going on, that we have met with someone from Justice, Gaston. We asked for help with any recipes/spells that might help us.

### Research Ways to connect our minds

Later we research mental connections and communication, so we can send one person in and all be connected. Role a dice for deduction: a sigil was located in a short study about animal behaviour. Uncover a sigil to summon a creature of the Kabbala of the sephirot of hod. The fulgurant elevation of the Hive Mind. Allows us to pool our intellect, knowledge and deductive skills to work on a specific problem/question.

Plan is to go to the hospital tomorrow.

## JAN 25th 2015 Sunday

### Using the Hive Mind in the hospital

We are headed to the hospital with Io. To use the Hive Mind we will need to be within 50m of each other. Fabien will be going in because he's a francophone.  We go into the toilet and draw the sigil on the floor, light appears, ropes appear into the walls  and this thing raises up and it turns out its a women with this computer like head with hair that then links to the ropes. We roll dice for a successful contract and are connected to the Hive Mind. Contract will be while we’re in the hospital. She throws a rope at Fabien and then disappears just as its about to hit him and all 4 of us are connected. We are headed to the tropical and contagious diseases ward… there is a desk at the front with bored overworked nurse Maria Theresa. I tell her I’m Josian’s nephew and I'm here to visit. So we get into protective clothing and go in to speak to the doctor. The ward is clean, bright etc. Josian is in room 3. Josian, has been sick for 3 days, slowly worsening condition. They induced a coma and that slows things down.

### The sick have contaminated sun-cores - Black-moon

Fabien heads into room 3 and goes into Ka-sight. First going into Selenim Ka-sight - pavane sight - music - hear the chromatid lines and can hear the souls of the dead people. Using sun-Ka and Black-moon. We hear a lot of singing people, but when Fabien looks at Josian - we can see her sun-core is contaminated by Black-moon. She is turning into an undead - they are addicted to Black-moon - they go crazy, eat brains, etc. We ask Io what can be done and she doesn't know how to fix this… Io thinks that within a week she will be completely undead If she’s already this advanced. Next we go into Nephilim Ka-sight. Gilbert’s Ka-sight - shadow in the fields. Very difficult for us to see. So other patient in the room has the same contamination.  We decide to look for runes while we here - we look for the shape in the core. We see Uruk

Symbol of the bull - lot of uncontrolled strength. Brut force - lack of control. We cannot collect this rune as we are unable to empathise to collect it.

### All the patients live near a Cathedral and 2 small churches

Gilbert and Alexi ask the nurse questions - they ask if there have been a lot of people, lots of specialists etc… Use deductive skills to work out what's going on… but since the rune is about an out of control Black-moon creature/Selenim/dragon effect/entity. We do a search for a location for each one on the lap top - all live in close proximity to the main cathedral of Orleans and 2 small church. All the churches are catholic. Cathedral is Saint Croix, the smaller churches - Saint Aignan and Our Lady of Recouvance.

### Dr Charles Xavier Villerand is a Nephilim and one of the patients is also a Nephilim - member of the Lovers Arcana

We go to talk to the Dr. Charles Xavier Villerand. He looks normal - we look at him from behind with Ka-sight - he is an air Nephilim. Fabien take off his watch to reveal his pentacle. Tell him about why we are here - to see if there is anything going on here and if there is something to be learned. He reveals he is not a member of Temperance. He takes us into one of the rooms and shows us the symptoms which are unusual, firstly attacking the lungs then the extremities, the skin on the feet. The patients are all humans except for one which was a Nephilim. He shows us the patient that has had the problem the longest. His skin on his feet is peeling off and necrotic. He thinks there must be a curse, because Black-moon normally can’t do this on its own. He's not an expert in Black-moon. The most powerful Selenim in Orleans is Martensen but he doesn’t think it’s him. Dr takes us to another room with a man in it - in the normal part of the hospital, advises to go into Ka-sight. We talk in Nephilim ennochean which is the language spoken in Ka-sight. This simulacrum has the same Black-moon. It’s like a parasite in his pentacle. The man is part of the Lovers Arcana, they don’t know he's sick and in the hospital. The doctor asked Fabien to let the Arcana know. His name is Antoine Darsant - the Lost Travelers of Genabum (group within the Lovers). The Dr says a few patients became completely contaminated. He killed them and burned them. He said they had become rabid. Antoine, the Nephilim that has been contaminated, has progressed just as the other patients. We ask to stay in touch.We check the doctor for a rune before we go: he has one called Othila.

Othila - rune of the family/home. When reversed it’s isolation and devastation. Gilbert sympathised and we all got the rune as we are linked in the Hive Mind.

### To the lovers - Clery-Saint-André

People are busy with sets like those seen in theatres. We head into the house (priests house) - someone comes up and asks if they can help us. We let them know we are looking for friends of Antoines - they say we would have to come back later tonight for the show. The 4 organisers of the show are Luc, Benoit, Clémence and Cerise.

### To the cathedral Saint Croix - Black-moon in the crypts

As we get closer to Saint Croix Cathedral it feels uncomfortable, heavy, depressing feeling. But Alexi seemed attracted to it. Gilbert and Fabien decide to wait in a nearby cafe and send Alexi there. Alexi goes to the cathedral and follows pavane and can hear sounds from the crypt. Alexi goes into the crypt and can feel the Black-moon pulsating through the fields. Finds a flow of Black-moon just appearing from thin air.

### Alexi meets Martensen

Alexi goes looking for the priest, goes into Ka-sight and notices another Selenim. It’s a 40 year-old man. He has a few scars on his face. This is Martensen. He noticed that Alexi is a newborn Selenim. He is excited by that and welcomes Alexi. Martensen is aware of the fountain of Black-moon in the crypt and he agrees must be linked to the patients in the hospital. A few centuries ago there was a powerful Selenim in the area. Martensen killed him and took over the city. There is a lost kindom hidden by this previous powerful Selenim. Martensen thinks the Black-moon is a remnant of his kingdom. A strong Selenim can create an antiterre that he feeds from. Martensen's kingdom is Orleans. There are a network of akashas and auntiteres that collapsed 1000 years ago. The Lovers are trying to put it pack together.

### Martenesen gives Alexi history of the world

Martensen took Alexi to his kingdom gave him history and a moment later Alexi returned. Time in the Akasha is different. History of the world from Martensen: Click here for the info.

### Back to Clery-Saint-André for the show put on by the Lovers

In the evening: Back to Clery-Saint-André: It's very busy, lots of tourists and hundreds of cars parked in fields. Directed to a field with river flowing through it. Bleachers on the sides, lots of food stalls looks like a renaissance fair. Atmosphere is happy. Fireworks, lasers, horses, costumes, mist rising on the fields.

Show: It's about Druids and their history. They are depicted as in charge of justice and decisions of the time. Then switches to scenes about war and the Romans; then changes to a lush forest landscape. Roman times again; then peace, then roman technology. Then history of a cathedral being burned down. Then story of Joan of arc and how she freed Orleans. Changing landscape as the story progresses. Lasts until midnight and finishes with fireworks.

In Ka-sight during the show the landscape appeared exactly the same in normal sight and in Ka-sight, its like a hologram projected over it and it appears to be an akasha; a glimpse into each one. During the forest landscape there was a feeling of Black-moon and people around went a bit quieter. Saw four different Nephilim during the show and they had the most important roles. In the crowd: saw a few groups of people with really strong sun-cores. And we saw a Selenim and Nephilim in the crowd. Three groups - one has the Nephilim and the other 2 have not.

Gilbert goes to the group with the Nephilim, it’s the doctor from the hospital in Orleans. (Selenim is probably Martensen). The people with the bright sun-cores look like plain clothed policeman - (Templars?). The other group of 3 is scanning the crowd and area - look like military. The other group just look like “nerds” , they have a much brighter sun-cores watching the show and not paying attention to what's going on around them.

### Talking to the 4 Nephilims at the end of the show

These are the 4 Nephilims that were in the show. Talking to one of the female Nephilim (Cerise), another one joins (Luke) - he whispers something in her ear. Basically that we are not Nephilim (as we have out pentacles covered). Gilbert and Fabien expose their pentacles and she becomes more relaxed. We inform her that Antoine has been infected by Black-moon and some other humans too. They are concerned about this and will consult with the Temperance. We ask what the 5 of them were doing and we told them we noticed a bad vibe with the forest akasha. Most of the show was about Joan of arc so they can understand more about Orleans. There was a powerful Omphalos - Druids made a pact between humans and Nephilim - called the Pact of the Setting Sun - make humans believe that the Druids know better and control the akasha - the human psyche stabilise the akashas. Some of the Nephilims were here in the real world learning about it, some where travelling though the akashas. Last druid was Saint Aignan kept the whole akasha’s going; he was the last one who knew how to activate the Omphalos. The doors to this akasha opens when Omphalos occurs. A travelling Nephilim became contaminated and turned into a Selenim. He became insane and burned the cathedral down, the people in the akasha became trapped. Theoretical knowledge of what happened. The show allow humans to focus on an event and this allows a glimpse into previous akashas. Talking to Clemence - a water Nephilim. Luke and Benoir disappear quickly to go to Antoine. She seems surprised hearing about Dr Charles Xavier looking after the contaminated people. She informs us that the doctor is a Templar. She is telling us to be very careful, as this area is full of Templars good and bad.

### Fizz sends us a temporary alchemy lab

We go to out hotel, the concierge tells us the room is ready, our stuff is in it and that our things are there 5 crates and a suitcase. There's a note: note is from Fizz, he forwarded it to us.. 10 bottles of wine in the suitcase, bright labels - are foci. Two bottles of each element. These are recipes for alchemy 101. In the crates its all alchemy equipment.

## JAN 26th 2015 Monday

Gilbert and Fabien spend the day sething up the alchemy lab and uncovered 10 wine bottle foci - for alchemy.

## JAN 27th 2015 Tuesday

Martensen believed the door to the akashas was in the cathedral and previous Selenim - Neavril - who was a traveller - got contaminated, became insane, tried to burn the cathedral which closed/removed the door. He was killed by Martensen later on.

### Forest Akasha contaminated with Black-Moon investigation with Clemence

Go to Clemence who lives in the centre of Orleans and get more info. She welcomes us. Gilbert asks her about the Druid forest. She tells us they were channeling people to think about it as a way to bring the akasha into view. Humans - High-dreamers can learn to control where their dreams are going - rumours are there is an Arcana based on lies and human improvement and they might be able to help us. She’s met some high dreamers but they are shifty about telling us where they are from. Look for maps from the past or traces from the past. She knows two things:

1. Some of the guardians of the pact:
	* working on the umbilicus -
	* group of cathedral builders -
	* passed this knowledge from generation to generation -
	* called the artisans - around 1000ce - brotherhood of builders.
2. When they arrived in the area there was a Nephilim that had been in the area for ages but he would not give any information to them. Still lives in the area but not as powerful. Pascal Laguarde - he owns a little company of restoration of old buildings. That's how he looks for information. His metamorph is an Angel. She doesn’t think he is with the Major Arcana - but unknown allegiances.

### Hive Mind to find the Akasha

Akasha: predominantly water based and is a forest of oaks trees and holy trees. Very primitive forest. Hints of Black-moon. It resonates to Alexi = pulls him in. This pulls at Alexi not just any Selenim - but him specifically.

Google search: rolled a 17 with a deduction search: 2 potential places:

1. Castle of Chamerolles
2. conservation park next to the Ilex Institute - study of Holy.

Both had a river and a forest made of holy and oak.

### Castle of Chamerolles

Head to the castle: It's a private castle owned by the foundation Clythia, gardens are open to tourists. We go into Ka-sight: strong water fields, and labyrinth is made of Holy. Alexi doesn’t see much in Ka-sight - Pavane - quiet. Above the labyrinth is a raised gazebo/tower. We go through the labyrinth to try get there but after 30 minutes not making much progress.  Gilbert goes into Ka-sight and it appears the Earth fields are manipulating to us.

### Attacked in the Labyrinth, freeing Odorio from a homunculus

A kind old man with a large sun-core walked around the corner in the labyrinth and tries to stab us. Alexirolls low, and passes the brass knuckles to Gilbert. Gilbert dodges the attack. The old man tries to attack, fails immediately as he rolls a 1. Gilbert retaliates rolls a 19 trying to punch him in the face. Punches works and old man is on the floor. Woman appears and attacks Fabien. Fabien dodged the attack roll a 15. Fabien passes a bead of metallic strength to Alexi, another man appears but the attack was bad. Alexi runs at the woman to knock her to the ground. She falls but she is not wounded. Knife still in her hand. Gilbert picks up the knife. He does an opportunity attack - so when attacked he attacks first - Gilbert rolls 19. But the man dodged as damage was 0 with a 20 roll. The man attacks Gilbert again - scratched at each other. Fabien tries to kick women in the head. Fabien get 20 on the roll and kicks her unconscious. Alexi threatens to slit the womens throat and the other man runs away into the labyrinth. The holy starts moving into the labyrinth attacking us. We go into Ka-sight, both the Old man and the woman have strong sun-cores. There is also one sun-core in the gazebo and a Nephilim pentacle. The human with the big sun-core in the gazebo was also at the show put on by the lovers at Clery-Saint-André yesterday. Gilbert summons a Kabbala creature to burn a path to the Gazebo. We reach the gazebo and we can see a man with a big jar. Go in Ka-sight and notice the Nephilim is in the Jar - homunculus - enslaved Nephilim. This is how the human is doing magic. Alexi and Gilbert find guns on the unconscious people. Alexi shoots the jar and it explodes flesh all around and kills homunculus, the Nephilim goes into the body of the woman we disabled. Gilbert rolls a 20 to shoot him to disarm him. The woman, Juliette Louvelle is the new simulacrum of Odorio an earth Nephilim, draws a sigil and summoned something that opens an escape path from the labyrinth and leads us to the back to the garden. We flee with the Human (older man that tried to stab us initially) and drive to the middle of nowhere to interrogate him.

In the middle of the countryside. We have the hostage - 40 year old male, not too badly injured - He is reasonably calm. Odorio throws up - she has never been in a car before.

### Interrogation with hostage and information from Odorio

information gained:

* Name: Eric la Banne.
* wanted to capture us because we had behaviour of Nephilims.
* Eric refuses to tell us anything else.

Information from Odorio:

* they are human
* Minor Arcana - they call themselves the rose and cross.
* She had not heard of them until woken up as a homunculus. The person who made her into a homunculus was of the rose and cross.
* known as the cup.
* They found her stasis at the bottom of the castle.
* Top guy has incredibly strong sun-core.
* She’s been forced to help this group to capture Nephilim. The labyrinth is a trap. One master of alchemy that loved gardens - so those that come looking get trapped.
* She is looking for a friend called Virgo - a fire Nephilim.
* In the 13th century she was a cathedral builder - they found a stasis of Virgo (fire Kaim) and released him he was looking for his sister Astre (water Kaim). Controlling centre connecting Ley Lines.
* Astre is one of the new Nephilimand she exploded. The new Nephilimare creatures of magic can become fragmented in different Ley Lines.
* Virgo and Astre are able to feel each other's presence.
* After she exploded he knew that she was dead, but then realised he could sense her a little. Then realised she might be in the Ley Lines.

Fabiendeduction: linked pulling from water in Lyon and Ley Lines in Lyon - similar to what Astre has to Virgo and similar to what Alexi feels around the Black-moon. So perhaps this pull at the moment might be to Virgo and Astre which has been shattered into fragments. Someone has been looking for her for centuries, should have left some traces. The third Arcana is the rose and cross. Rose and cross reminds of rossencrussen - group like the Freemasons - a secret society of some sort.

Asking Odorio:

Q: Is there a connection between Astre, Cybele and us? A: Probably. Virgo may have fragmented and exploded too???

Q: When did Astre die/explode? A: after Atlantis, after the elemental wars, thinks might have been part of the great Egyptian period.

Gilbert checks for runes in Eric and finds one: Teiwaz is the name of the rune: Deduction: Rune of courage/justice/honour and perseverance. Ioreminds us that Orleans is in a tense balance between not killing each other between the Minor Arcana and Major Arcana (lovers). What we did in the labyrinth might tip the balance. Odoriohas an idea about a creature of the kabbala makes a target develop a hatred of one of his skills. Gilbert and Fabiensummon a Kabbala creature, for The Thorns of Self Hate that Burrows at the Heart of Talents. Both succeed. We draw a sigil. Pink flows that come off branches that suddenly realise they’re thorns not branches. Hair is covered in pink flowers, skin is very pale - among the flowers are skulls of little birds, looks beautiful at first but then you realise its kind of disgusting. We go back to interrogation. He tells us there are only 4 of them. Woman died (now Odorio's simulacrum), one was dying and one ran away. We let Eric go and received the ruin. We head back to the hotel with Odorio.

## JAN 28th 2015 Wednesday

### Finding Pascal Laguarde

Theodorf -  an angel - might be Pascal Laguarde according to Odorio. Fabien googles Pascal Laguarde and we find his website and contact details. Fabien hacks the website to obtain a physical address. We decide to head there. It's an old farm that is well renovated. He opens the door. He is a 40+ year old with an aristocratic appearance. He has an aura of trust and looks almost angelic. His metamorph was an angel.

### Information from and about Pascal Laguarde

* sent here in 775ce by the coin - synarchy (one of the 4 minor aracana) (the coin might be the illuminati)
* became the bishop when he was Theodorf.
* Air Nephilim - fairly advanced.
* sent here to investigate the Omphalos and how it works. All he could find was remnants of information that was passed down from builders to builders.
* The last Druid was dead and the last information was passed to him. He wonders if the last Druid might be around in a stasis somewhere.
* He found some rituals and maps but needs to be put together.
* He had nothing to reactivate the umbilicus.
* He got killed and when he came back many centuries later the cathedral is burned and he just decided to move on and stop searching for the umbilicus.
* Coded the information into a building in Orleans. Coded in the painting. The building is called the Oratoire of Germigny.
* He would like to access our knowledge if we discover anything there. We agree to share our knowledge.

### The Oratoire of Germigny with Pascal Laguarde.

Pascal remembers: There's a map in the crypt and something in the dome. He got the items from the artisans. In the crypt there is a paved floor and here and there are symbols in the floor. Go into Ka-sight, symbols are also present. Different elements - maps of the akashas - can see which major element was in each akasha - we find two spots in this map where there is a water akasha and the symbols are holy and oak. This is a map of the akashas as they were in Druid times. We look at the domed ceiling and there are intricate symbols and a mosaic. The mosaic is a focus - under that there are three panels with writing on.

### The three panels from the domed ceiling

1. The first one says: "white, green, the tears of the moon on the tall wise tree. Sun made into the shape of a newborn moon the celebrant dressed in white carries the blade."
2. 2nd panel: “Crushed pearls of the wisdom in the sorrows of the sky, Holy remedy, Lustral waters, purifying blessing.”
3. The third panel message was lost.

Io tells us that the text is possibly a key to the akasha or ritual of magic effect. Almost seems like a protocol. Lacking the background - in which paradigm we need to uncode it. The sun could mean sun in the sky, sun-core, sun magic, gold, time of the year. Research the Druidic culture to understand the context of the panels. We spend the afternoon learning about Druid culture and symbols. Fabien does a deduction roll and gets a difficult level:

1. the first panel - white and green: mistletoe. Mistletoe that grows on oak trees. Sickle made of gold.
2. The second panel: the pearls of wisdom are the berries of mistletoe and rain water. We don’t know what to do with it. But possible we have to sacrifice two white bulls??

Gilbert unravels the focus after speaking to the people who did the restoration of the mosaic. It's a creature of the kabbala called "The Ministers of Peace Dressed in Beryl" Element is Air, Sephirah: Malkut and world is Zakai. Contract is slightly difficult. Summon during a battle - summons a peace maker  - physically people in the area of effect will be unable to do anything aggressive. Lasts 15 minutes.

Everyone is doing research.

## JAN 29th 2015 Thursday

### The Companions of Duty of Tour de France

* We find one of these in Orleans
* well versed in traditional building techniques - usually do restorations of churches and fine arts.
* In the front window of their house they have small models of houses and churches etc.
* Open to the public -

There are 4 people: one sculpting stone, one teaching some to draw. We are welcomed in by a man called Matthew. We ask about the restoration of Oratoire of Germigny - Matthew knows nothing about the 3rd panel. Alexidistracts Matthew while we go into Ka-sight - there a few models in the windows that look like fociin the windows. Some are extremely old - beautiful work. Gilbert looks for a shape in the core: Mannaz is the name of the rune. We will look this up later to look up what it means and how to get it.

Matthew tells us about the foci: were made by the masters that died in the fire. Different architectural features - there is a stairway and rooftop. The foci are both alchemy recipes. Back to the hotel: look up the rune: rune of inner self, brotherhood and mankind. Research two Kabbala creatures….

### James and Cybele on their way to Ireland. Lurcharba sends Kabbala message Cybele but James asks us investigate

And the end of the day we get a call from James - ask about Cybele - they are on a boat on their way to Ireland - he’s hoping that will stabilise her. She received a message from Lucharba - wasn’t really for her. Lucharba sent a message using kabbala - the message is an address in paris. James doesn’t want to take her back to Paris as she could flatten the whole city. James is asking us if we can check it out: address: Hotel des sablons - room 48; Eugene Fragarach. Cybele is upset that she can’t go.

## JAN 30th 2015 Friday

### The ilex institute

At the Ilex institute there is an arborium that is 5000m^2. Go into Ka-sight but don’t see a ring of sun-Ka i.e. door to an akasha. Currents of air, water and earth are moving/flowing and not static. This means that they are activated but we don’t know what's going on. In the centre of the place we find a massive oak tree. We don’t see a ring of sun-Ka there. We can see that it’s a forest and used to be a swamp and it’s a bit overgrown. It's raining and we have spent an hour since the last attempt at spell casting. Gilbert casts a spell to sense the water and follow it. The water is flowing towards the tree. Fabien sensed both the air and earth and they all point forwards the tree but the earth one doesn’t quite allow the energy to reach the tree.

### Earth current is blocked

The earth current stops in the bushes, we find old barbed-wire fences and metal bits and pieces that are blocking the flow of earth as they are fire elements. Gilbert does a spell and has a sword. We do another spell to convert all the wires and pieces into metal rods. Now we move the metal rods out the way. Go back into Ka-sight, the earth Ka flows towards the tree. Makes a shape that looks like a triskel (see figure on the right) which is important in Druid world. We go to the tree and we see the glow of the ring of sun-Ka at the tree and an open door to a beautiful forests of oaks. This akasha is made of water. Very slight Black-moon pull.

### Heading into the akasha

We summon Astramance Kabbala to warn us if anything comes near - acts as a lookout.   And another Kabbala to make the tree disappear so no one can see it. We head in. There is a path to a primitive village to the right and lush forest on the left.

### Our metamorphs

Upon entering the akasha our metamorphs appear as strong as they can be. If we took off our watches, pendants etc. we would appear fully metamorphed.

* Fabien has thin red scars showing through his skin which appears grey.
* Gilbert looks like a quiet pretty naive not so bright girl.
* Io looks like a bright pink cat.
* Fabien removes his watch and his skin turns a pale ash colour - dove grey. Criss crossed with thin scars that reddish. The smell changes to a cold fireplace - Fabien's metamorph (vulcain) can change/shift into something like a lava-monster. Basaltic metamorph - linked to a raw climatic event. Like an eruption - some of the oldest metamorphs.
* Gilbert is a camanae metamorph - very pretty, honey like skin.

### Meet the village chief and are taken to a sick druid

Head off to the village. There are 40 huts and it looks peaceful. Everyone is intrigued with newcomers - language is understood through connected magic. They welcome us, we are wearing exotic clothing to them. They are wondering what we have been sent here for. The healing of the Druid? They ask. They lead us to the chief of the village. Tall beefy red-haired bear edgy viking vibe. Cunomoris is his name. He welcomes us with moderate interest. We are here to help - we are sent from the council of Druids. He offers to take us to the apprentice - Owen. He is young. Glad to see us as he is way out of his depths. The Druid that was meant to teach him is very sick. He is lying there mumbling something about the tears of the moon. The apprentice hasn’t learned anything. We slip into Ka-sight. It is a mostly water based world. They have a fake sun-core but they are made of water really.

### The druid - Jemalobix - unravels the 3rd panel

The Druid is called Jemalobix. At the south of the village there is a hut on the side, trees are dead around it. Very contaminated with Black-moon when we go into Ka-sight. Ghastly earth/soils. There is an old man in a white robe with a golden sickle. He looks drugged. He is made more of fire than water. His speech is garbled and every now and then his beard goes on fire then back to normal. There is some Black-moon on his sun-core but not the cause of his speech .. Io tells us he is the chimera of the akasha - ie he is the incarnation of the akasha. We summon the Hive Mind so we can put all of our minds together including the druid's. Gilbert will get some contamination. We are connected and we get the information from the third panel. It says: “Year old flame, witnessed the turn of the wheel. It's lustral vapours seal the pact of the setting sun.”

### Putting the information in the panels together

We need a flame that's been burning for at least a year, boil the rain water with mistletoe berries and then breath in the steam.

* Get fire from the blacksmith in the village.
* White robes and sickle from Druid.
* We are going to need rain from the real world, Gilbert goes to do this.
* Alexi heads into the forest to get the berries dressed in robes with sickle.
* Alexi follows the music that he hears and this leads him to a fawn - a creature of the akasha. Follows the fawn playing music as he takes us to the big tree. Which is right in the centre of the akasha. There is mistletoe on the oak and it has berries. Alexi cuts one of the berries down using the sickle.
* Alexi heads back to the village, so we can make the potion:
	+ Once boiled the Druid breaths in the steam. After a few minutes he's not frothing and his beard isn't catching on fire. Owen is impressed.

### Vapour initiates the pact of the setting sun

This ritual helps us create a vapour that initiates the pact of the setting sun. Berries required from this akasha. Once a year the travellers would get some berries and bring back to the real world and allows control to Omphalos. So they can use the magic and control it.

### The umbilicus

The umbilicus is one Omphalos but it is somewhere in Orleans - appears in different places every year in Orleans. To activate it:

1. Need a Nephilim
2. humans with sun-Ka which controls the akasha
3. Need a Nephilim guardian druid - the last one was Saint Aignan who is probably locked in a stasis.

The druid regains composure, the trees around his hut become more green and the grass starts to grow back. We can feel that the Black-moon is being pushed further back into the akasha. The contamination is slowly being pushed away. Everywhere Jemalobix goes things grow around him. We head to another door to an adjoining akasha, between to rocks coming up from the ground. We can see the space between the rocks has a different landscape compared to the akasha we are in.

### Building a ship to travel the Palludian seas to the next akasha

We step through and for a moment we are floating across an ocean of waving grass. In a blink we are back and we need a ship to sail to the next akasha. Turns out that Io has a ship and can take us. But we decide to build a ship - we have to head to the centre of the akasha and grab some soil/water/twig etc. Something that is the essence of the akasha and link it to our pentacle. Jemalobix takes us to the big tree in the centre of the akasha - take a twig from the tree and bind it to Fabien's pentacle. So now we have ships for the Palludian sea. We head back to the door of the akasha and jump on one of our ships. Gilbert goes first so it’s his ship. There's a string of sun-Ka pulling it towards a huge bubble of sun-Ka - next akasha. As we reach it we find ourselves standing in a field - there are hills and peasants tending the fields. There is a medieval castle with a village around it. We all go into Ka-sight. There is Black-moon everywhere in this akasha. It is not curse with ghastly soils. Alexi can hear the call of the Black-moon. This is mostly an earth akasha. We are looking for fragments of Astre. Odorio is here with us.

### Joan of Arc/Virgo

We speak to a local: tells of this place. Wonderful place now that Joan is here. Joan of Arc is in charge. Apparently it has been peaceful place for along time. We decide to head for the castle where Joan is. Io agrees we should go looking for Joan and finding out who the chimera is. We head to the castle. Talk to the guards. They send us to Joan. We arrive in the throne room - lots of armour, maps etc, lot of people and a blonde woman in armour. We speak to her. We tell her that we have heard of her and that she has saved this city and others. She recognises that we are Nephilim and Selenim. She can tell that we are even though we are hiding our pentacles - this is because she is the chimera. She tells us she used to be a Nephilim. She used to be Virgo - Virgo died but she has the memory of Virgo. Joan of Arc was the simulacrum of Virgo. So this copy of Joan of Arc has some memories of Virgo. Odorio is with us so she is quite excited.

### The Links between Tammuz, Joan, Virgo, Astre, Odorio

Joan of Arc was stabbed to death with orichalcum and then the simulacrum burned. When she got killed, the rare dust formed from orichalcum eating the Nephilim. A Selenim called Tammuz picked it up. His human name at the time was Gillesderay. Was Joan's best friend - he was also looking for his lover Astre. He had a fulgurance (deep love connection that they can feel all the time). They broke up because Tammuz turned into a Selenim. Astre runs away after they break up. She disappears. He feels her death. Virgo later during the eqyptian times he can feel she is back. Virgo meets Odorio and they jump into different bodies and at some point Virgo jumps in a Templar that had a promethian gene and if a Nephilim jumps into that body it can’t control the body. When the Templar died Virgo went into Joan of Arc, unable to take over the body but she could hear his voice.

### Fragment of Astre is in the Akasha and contaminating it

Astre fragment that was stuck in the Ley Line; moved from the Ley Line into this akasha and has contaminated it. The Ley Line was keeping the umbilicus cyclical. Joan knows where the fragment is. She takes Alexi to the swamp - a couple hours of walking … its very moist and easily able to become contaminated. In the middle of the swamp there are 5 raised stones 2m tall menhirs and in the very centre of them there is a big chunk of obsidian.

### Releasing the fragment

Joan of Arc asks if we want it to be released. It will be released from a solid form into a non-solid form. She releases it and it forms a cloud. Under it a big disc of sun-Ka that opens and the cloud of Black-moon is sucked into the disc of sun - ie released back into the crypt of the cathedral back in the real world. The 5 menhir melt and reveal 5 humans that look like old Druids - Nephilim. The lost travellers of Ganubum? They are very surprised and very angry and ask where is the traitor? where is Navrille? The crazy one isolais was one of travellers, they were all there and he was wildly contaminated and before he could do anything they became trapped when the cathedral burned down. Navrille was contaminated by the shard/fragment. Later Gilbert and Fabien arrive at the location and remove their pendant/watch and show their pentacles to the Druids to calm them down. They realise we are not peregrine or lovers and we are baby Nephilims. Io explains the current situation to them. We ask for a hair from each of them so we can find them again.

### Martensen takes the Black-moon fragment

Alexi heads through the hole into the cathedral crypt. Martensen is there and he is talking to the cloud of Black-moon. It is revealed that Tammuz is Martensen. As Alexi starts talking to him Tammuz takes all the cloud into himself. He thought the cloud of Black-moon was all of Astre but its not. So he is confused. He put the essence of her into his core. Alexi can’t feel the contamination anymore. So he comes back to us and tells us we can hop through this door back to the cathedral.

We release the Kabbala creatures Astramance and the other lookout and release them from our contract. We are back in the crypt with Tammuz and no contamination in the crypt anymore so perhaps cured the sick people in the hospital.

Martensen/Tammuz tells us more: Astre and him were kaim. They respected the earth as an entity. When orichalcum fell, the humans became really powerful and were killing kaims. Prometheus enlightened the humans to escape the control of the Kaims. Lilith realised that the Black-moon is impervious to orichalcum weapons and turned herself into an ethereal Selenim. Some of the Kaim decided to follow her and to turn into an ethereal Selenim. Tammuz and Astre got into a fight because she didn’t want to become a Selenim.

He is intrigued by why we are looking for her. There must be other fragments of her. We need to find the fragments. The pull of the water back in Lyon may have been another fragment of Astre. We tell Tammuz that we think the akasha in Lyon might be the location of another fragment.

We ask about James and Cybele. He thinks her name might be familiar.

## JAN 31st 2015 Saturday

We call Dr Charles Xavier Villerand - there has been an improvement in the patients at the hospital. We tell him a little about how we fixed it. He thanks us and says thank the Temperance for him - he thinks we are with them.

Next we call Pascal Laguarde. He wanted to know how these things work and whatever we discover. We tell him know how to activate the umbilicus with the berries and fire and Druids and humans etc…. He asks to be present if we reactivate it.

We decide to do some alchemy.

We will be heading to paris to help Lucharba so we say goodbye to Odorio. She will stay with the umbilicus as that's her passion - advised to call us if she is going to reactivate it.

### Back to Paris to investigate the message from James - Eugene Fragarach

We pack up the lab and get in the car and drive to Paris. Going to investigate Eugene Fragarach; the message from James was: "Hotel des sablons - room 48; Eugene Fragarach." We remember that there were 5 families that were linked to Templars - on the Committee of the Cultural Preservation of Lyon. Eugene has been living in Greece and recently came here to stay in the hotel

We google the hotel in Paris - fairly wealthy hotel 5 star. We arrive at the hotel in the evening.  We book a room above room 48 and the room next to it. Go into Ka-sight nothing stands out.

### Looking through the floor in the hotel

Gilbert does a spell but it works on Fabien?? Anyway Fabien looks through the floor at room 48. There are 2 guards in the room - 2 men in suits. Guard is playing his phone. There is a suitcase on the bed that is open - Fabien roll a dice on deduction - there is a cell phone next to the suitcase that has been left there. Also an address book on the night table next to a notepad. The address book is open - suspect something was written on the notepad. Read the address book - Hugue de morlay - he is the priest of church Auteuil. There is an open letter next to the suitcase - it is from Childeber Ildanach (another one of the 5 families of the cultural preservation society of Lyon). It reads: “Here is my collection may you choke on it and die. Now the curse is on you, fuck you I’ll kill them all.” Addressed to Eugene Fragarach. The suitcase is open and there is old clothing in it. Expensive suitcase - wealthy man. There is a plane tag from Greece on the bag.

We go to sleep, after failing to roll to hack into the hotel’s database. Gilbert rolls a dice for the ability to detect a Nephilim visual range. There is no Nephilim in the area.

## FEB 1st 2015 Sunday

Hack the hotel computer:

* the room has been booked by Eugene Fragarach a couple of weeks ago.
* noise complaint on Thursday (Lucharba was released on that day - coincidence?), some screaming in a foreign language - guards said everything was fine and under control.
* Eugene Fragarach has not checked in since.

Fabien has full access to cameras, door access etc.

### We go to the room 48 and shrink the guards

Knock on the door, guards open and Fabien shrinks guards using a spell: "I modify the guards using smaller, further spyglass" (2 points added)

We grab the notepad, the address book. The suitcase. The gun. Guards wallets and phones. In and out in less than 1 minute as the guards will return to normal size. We go back to our room.  Fabien deletes all footage, check out and check in under a different name. Alexi goes through the wallets and phones of the guards. They are Greek.

Hack the phones roll a 20, clone the data on the phones and put a tracking function into the phones as well as a backdoor to the phones so we have remote access. Alexi takes the phone back to the hotel staff saying he found them.  We do a rubbing of pencil on the notepad. There are 3 addresses:

1. Hugue de Morlay - he is the priest of Church Auteuil.
2. Juliette Boissrond, antiquities near Montparnasse cemetery.
3. Alain Ricket, hotel a manager - Place de Voges

Io was playing with the address book - those were the only 3 addresses in paris. The page for Alain ricket, the bottom part of the page has been ripped out (not his address)

Plan track the phones, track Eugene using Kabbala

## FEB 1st 2015 Sunday afternoon

### Io says we have three new messages

1. Occult skills is getting better so we have to focus on foci
2. Message from Odorio - who stayed back doing research on Ley Lines etc. She found Saint Aignan's stasis. Earth Nephilim Ahun - phaerim (earth) earth day = Friday. She might be able to bring him back if she can find a body.
3. Message from Fizz - Kabbala focus - Gyran mist-eye, the deep net of the sunken memories, triplet of the docks of jal’dara - creature allows you to relive memories with perfect clarity.

### Summoning Gyran mist-eye to relive memories

Fabien summons the kabbala creature above. Everything becomes dark and Fabien can smell the ocean - like low tide. Fabien can hear seagulls and can see is darkness. Man dressed halfway between gypsy and homeless. Bushy white beard and moustache. Veils cover half his face can see one misty eye. He has a ball with some ambers and a lot of burned out sticks of incense. Dice 17 on third dice. Light the incense and fog forms. He agrees, we also would like to do this in conjunction with the Hive Mind. Do a successful contract and do a Hive Mind.

* We start back at Zora on 21st Jan 2015, go through stuff about Cybele, Mistweaver, futhark.
* While reminiscing we see someone in the corner - a guy - he is green in appearance.
* Lugh was never head of Justice, but strength. Merlin is the new head of strength.

We asked the the mist eye if he knows anything about Mistweaver - he says there was no contract that he was doing what he thought was right. When a contract is passed with a creature of Binah (one of the sephira) its a normal contract. Mistweaver is not a creature of Binah, he didn’t need to do a contract. He is emperor level and beyond the rules. He doesn’t need to have a contract to do it.

Neither of the kabbala creatures knows who the green man is. Does not ring any bells to them.

## FEB 2nd 2015 Monday

### Tracking Eugene

Using the suitcase to track Eugene; Fabien draws the sigil for those who hunt at night. I rolled an 18, they fly through the window. We follow them in our van; we arrive in a posh area of paris, we stop at a posh hotel/palace - Lutetia. The creature hovers in front of one of the windows. Alexi does a smoke screen. We get a room next door to Eugene. Gilbert uses a spell to see into the room next door. The room next door is similar to ours: in this one there is an old man lying on the floor, there are many pointy holes in him and blood under him. Looks like Eugene from photos seen on google. He is dead. There are no personal items in the room. It’s basically untouched in the room just his body. We did a spell to go through the wall. I modify the wall to a door (lid-receptacle). Rolled an 18. The wall morph’s into a door for 1 minute. Gilbert goes into Ka-sight. Nothing of magic in the room. Alexi goes into Ka-sight. Io goes through Eugene’s pockets. Pockets - 3 names from address book.  A formal invitation to a seance -> Puy - la - Forêt “We shall once more awaken the spirit of the castle.”

### Lucharba's last note

In his shoes there is a piece of paper - I am Lucharba soldier of Lugh - oh how the world has changed since the hills of Erin, I am lost and need to gather information - and so I write this down in case something happens to me. I hid mine and foci in the priests temple, and Brian's at…"

### Alexi communicates with Eugene

Alexi is communicating with Eugene using necromancy:

* He met someone that started shooting at them. Trunkel is his name.
* Supposedly interested in his collection. Collection has been in the family for years - a lot of old Celtic jewellery and old daggers - antiques - Bronze Age from Ireland.
* What does he know about the Templars - doesn’t know.
* Collection was in a metal trunk in the back of the car.
* Childeber gave Trunkel his collection and Trunkel killed his family.
* Trunkel has been after Eugene's collection for decades.
* He knows the guys that stabbed him was the same guys who shot at him on Thursday
* In exchange for keeping a woman alive (Cybele?) they were given artefacts and collections split in 5. In this treasure there was one thing that was very powerful - Small cauldron - makes medication more potent. And if they use the small cauldron it will give them long life. Lugh organised this.
* There has to be one family in Lyon at all times - Herve Failinis one of the five families that is there.
* The new families don’t know about the treasures.

### Fabien summons the Hive Mind so we can all see Eugene's last few moments

Alexi is going to see what happens in the last few moments of Eugene’s life. The three guys that killed him where looking for something and couldn’t find it.  Fabien rolls on deduction and rolls a 14: Trunkel’s men were after collection; didn’t have the collection with him so he probably hid it. Likely at the priests temple. Pendant that they hurt him with was orichalcum - probably Templars. Trunkel is likely a Templar.

### Lucharba used Eugene's body as a simulacrum

Lucharba came back on Thursday as we knew before, his stasis must have been in Eugene’s possession and that’s why Lucharba used his body. Eugene locked himself in Greece to stay away from Trunkel. Childebar went crazy by locking himself away. Eugene then took Childeber’s collection. Juliette Boissrond is the granddaughter of Roland Enbarr. Who went to Prague to sell his collection but then went missing. Juliette invited Eugene to seance; before Lucharba took on his body. Lucharba finds his stasis and Brian stasis in the collection - he hides his own stasis at the priest's temple but Brian’s hidden elsewhere… Brian might be one of the people cursed in the 2000 year thing. Trunkel may have 3 collections already:

1. Eugene Fragarach's
2. Childeber Ildanach's
3. Roland Enbarr's

Alexi summons a creature to find out where Trunkel is based: Prague.
Clean the room down and head off

### Church Auteil

We are off to church Auteuil. This is where one of the three people in the address book is located - Hugue de Morlay. We suspect this is also the "priest's temple" mentioned by Lucharba in his note. We arrive at the church and its quite posh posh. We go into Ka-sight… slight glimmer of sun-Ka. We don’t see a stasis, there are some foci in a stained glass window and another in the arch over the front door.  We are going to talk to Hugue de Morlay the priest. The arch depicts the scene of the life of Mary, visit from Anne her cousin; the stained glass windows depicts the almost death of saint Sebastian. He invited us to stay overnight.

## FEB 3rd 2015 Tuesday

### Sarah gets involved

Sarah is woken by Fizz in the very early morning and alerted to the fact that there is something going on across the street from her hotel.

### 1am woken by noise - 3 people are breaking in to the church

Io wakes us up in the middle of the night. She hears something. We try to do a spell to look through the wall but both Gilbert and Fabien fail. We look out the window and there are 3 people trying to break into the church. One is portly and white hair, 2 others able bodied men. We did not recognise them. We go into Ka-sight, white hair guy has a strong sun-Ka. Alexi doesn’t see much in Ka-sight.

### We get guns and go to investigate

They break in. Alexi gives Gilbert and Fabien a gun and he has the brass knuckles. Alexi puts on his amour. We follow to the door of the church from the parsonage through the courtyard. Gilbert does a vision spell to look through the door of the church to see what they are doing. Gilbert can see that they are 10m, from inside the door. Fabien notices a girl on the street on her phone. Gilbert can see they are trying to open another door on the other side of the alter.

### Fabien sees a female Nephilim - later we learn this is Sarah

Fabien goes into Ka-sight and see the girl across the street is a female Nephilim and she is walking towards him. Her pentacle looks simple. Alexi looks at her - looks Caribbean - dark skin, young woman. The girl sees Alexi and Fabien.

### The burglars enter the crypt

The guys have got through the door. The door leads to stairs going down into a crypt. Fabien tries talk to the girl who rudely replies that he's interrupting her phone call. She finishes the call and asks what Fabien wants. Alexi and Gilbert are following into the church. She claims to have had an argument with her boyfriend and didn’t want to wake anyone up in the hotel across the street so came out to speak. She extends her hand and introduces herself as Sarah. We follow into the church. Gilbert is inching his way down the stairs. There is a metallic scraping noise. They are pulling out a metal trunk from a shelf. Alexi is following behind and Sarah and Fabien are close behind. Fabien does a Kabbala spell "The metal footed doors of adamantium" to lock the door. Rolls a 16. The creature puts a key to the door and it locks and it disappears into the door. We have locked the 3 in the crypt. Gilbert then approaches Sarah and wants to know why she is here and that we know she is a Nephilim. She doesn’t know anything about Arcana’s. Io tells us that Fizz has sent her. Sarah is Sarah Lembert.

### Talking to the burglars

We talk through the door of the crypt to the three guys. They tell us they lost something and they are looking for it. We tell then that we don't believe them. They say that a friend left something in the crypt and they want to retrieve it. Alexi asks them to empty their pockets, they say they are empty but they are not. We tell them we can see them on a security camera. They empty guns and knives. The older gentleman does not have a weapon. The other two have the knives, they throw them further down the crypt. We unlock the door. We pull out our guns and ask them to slowly come up the stairs. Alexi takes their weapons and brass knuckles. Sarah suggests that we move away from the crypt door.  The older guy is Alain Ricket.

### Sarah and Fabien head down to the crypt - get foci and stasis from the trunk

It’s metal with a lock. Fabien uses the spell to change the metal lock into a blade and thus the lock opens. Inside the chest: full of old stuff, jewellery - primitive art, copper things, a torc, bracelet etc. We go into Ka-sight and look at the objects in the trunk. We find three foci and 1 little statuette of a stag that is a full stasis. Sarah puts the three items and the stasis in her cleavage and the chest relocks. We head back up.

### Talking to Alain Ricket

Alain claims to not be here to make any trouble. He asks what group/organisation we are from. We ask him what’s in the trunk. He said it might be of importance?. He knew his friend went there with a trunk and didn’t come back. He said he knew Fragarach for decades. Ask what organisation he is with - the church of the conscious elevation. Not a Templar. Minor Arcana??? Unsure. Their church is to better their lives and be better - self improvement and networking. Freemason cell basically. Rituals - rank based. Gilbert senses a shape in the core.

### 8 Templars arrive including Trunkel

Io tells us that there is a combi van outside and someone tries to get into the church. Gilbert looks through and there are 8 guys there. Fabien locks both doors using the Kabbala spell "The metal footed doors of adamantium" again. We are going to do a spell to do a hole in the wall. Fabien tries to do a Kabbala spell to hide an area in the church "The princes of the torchlit labyrinth", fails the first time but then rolls a 20 and with such a good roll we can move the hidden area with us as we go. We release the front door and side door at the same time and make our way out. Sarah has disappeared.

### Fight scene with Trunkel and his goons

Sarah is being shot at outside. She is shot at but saved by a kabbala spell she did. She rolls behind the combi van. We do a spell to open the earth into a grave. Five of the goons fall in the hole and combi falls over on top of them. The older guy near the church stairs disappears before we can see where he went. There are two left there. Sarah is exposed. Fabien shoots one of the guys, Alexi gets shot, Sarah runs away. Gilbert shoots the second guy.

Alexi does his flute thing and a creature appears that he asks questions to. The creature tells him the big boss/older guy that ran away was Trunkel and his headquarters are in Prague. He also tells us he is a policeman. We sink the combi further to hide our tracks. Made to look like a movie set.

### Go back to Sarah's hotel room and Fizz is with her

We go back to Sarah’s hotel room and her room mate is there… Fizz (Karim). Fizz helped Alexi heal. Hive Mind failed to bring Sarah up to date. Based on failed die. Go to sleep and wake up later on the same day.

***<<Please fill in gaps: AW was not here this is just a summary:>>***

***Sarah caught up on stuff. Sarah went to check out the artefacts from the trunk. Celtic runes - museum - Sarah looking for more information. Priest said there was a black man that came to investigate what had happened the night before. Arcana of Justice Gaston. Asked us if we were planning going to USA to investigate there.***

***Items from the trunk:***

1. ***2 antlers - hint of sun Ka - Scandinavian runes on them***
2. ***Arrow head - Selenim foci***
3. ***Knife- Nephilim foci - concept of mask and associated with moon.***
4. ***Ring - Nephilim foci - kaballa creature:***
5. ***Pendant - S***
6. ***Statue of the stag (stasis) Lercharba***

## FEB 5th 2015 Thursday

### The water shard in the Akasha via cloud museum

Alexi makes a man-slave. Go back to Fabien’s apartment for Cloud Museum access card. We go to the akasha in the Cloud Museum – in Ka-sight; Fabien feels a pull in the water field. He casts a spell to follow the water. We go into the staff area and nobody really notices us there.

Sigil drawn for Kabbala creature "The princes of the torchlit labyrinth", for hiding the door. 19 rolled and successful contract made. Sarah calls Astramance to be a lookout at the door. Then summons Astramance for worst case scenario. Sounds like what happened to us the last time we were there.

The door opens into a stone reservoir of a room. We arrive on a stone landing. Stone bridge – square island. Hospital bed still there in the middle. On the bridge is a dark stain? relevance? We send the man slave to walk across the water with the aid of an alchemy bead. When he steps on the island the lions appear, jumping out of the water. He is able to go back on the water and lions don’t follow him.

The pull of the water comes from under the platform, swirling around. We wait an hour for the man slave to lose his ability to walk on water. Man slave swims around the island. Fabien goes into Ka-sight and into the water. He sees a swirl of water under the platform under the darkness.

### Sarah takes the water fragment of Astre into her pentacle

Fabien deduces that the lions are only interested in protecting the platform not the shard below it. Sarah goes for a swim, takes a deep breath and heads under the platform. Sarah goes into Ka-sight and sees the water Ka. It wraps around Sarah and then disappears into her. We go into Ka-sight – swirling around her pentacle at the water element site its full. We relieve Astramance. We leave the museum. Alexi calls Tammuz (Martensen) – notifies we have the water shard.

Guru Nour el Ain – creature of Kabbala – runs through meditation for an hour. After an hour, the next spell you cast is protected from kaiba if you roll a low dice.

### Heading back to Orleans and meditating with Nour el Ain

It’s midday. We decide its time to head to Orléans for the Seance. on the way there we meditate with guru Nour el Ain. She informs us that the Earth chakra at base of spine – deals with survival and it is blocked by fear. Meditate and understand what are your fears as an immortal and fears as a simulacrum and embrace both of those to unblock the chakra

Arrive in Orléans around 9pm.

## FEB 6th 2015 Friday

### Ahun comes out of stasis

Going to Orleans to Odorio. Introduces us to zombie like woman – Isabelle (will be simulacrum for Ahun). We need an Earth Plexus for bringing Ahun out of his stasis. There is one at the Ilex institute. In Ka-sight – there are three plexi – Water Plexus, Air Plexus and Earth Plexus. Odorio puts the ring (which is the stasis) on Isabelle. The plexus looks depleted as the earth rushes into the stasis and a pentacle appears in the woman. Isabelle suddenly comes to life as Ahun wakes up. Ahun was the last droid to open the Omphalos

### Creating a Terrain vague for an Omphalos

Ahun is disappointed to be in a women’s body. He was last here 1500 years ago. We inform him that we removed the Black-moon that was contaminating the Akasha making this Omphalos cyclical. He’s not keen to show anyone how to open the Omphalos as he’s seen bad things happen with the Romans when he was hunted down. Ahun won’t do it unless there is a boheim (a very powerful bohemian like Zora). Ahun and Zora chat and she agrees to build a “vacant lot" – Terrain vague at St Benoit-Sur-Loire. A meneton (open-air temple) will be hidden in the Terrain vague, where an Omphalos would open naturally. The meneton is in the forest of Canute. The Terrain vague will take Zora 24 hours to form

We reaveal to Ahun stuff about Astre and splitting into fragments etc… Virgo. He said Virgo was intense about his missing sister etc. He used to be one of the guardians (group of druids) and was kicked out. He couldn’t find the answers he wanted so he became a traveller instead.

### Head back to Paris for the seance tomorrow

The seance invitation was quite formal/fancy and read: Puy-la-forêt: “We shall once more awaken the spirit of the castle.” We decide that Alexi and Sarah will go to the séance and we will use the Hive Mind to all be involved.

## FEB 7th 2015 Saturday

### The Séance is tonight!

Sarah and Alexi prepare to enter the castle [name of castle? Location on map? Photo from Bruno…]

#### Their disguises…

Sarah and Alexi create a story about who they are and why they are there in case they are asked who invited them and how they came by the invitation. Sarah is pretending to be Imelda and Alexi is Brenton – they are both members of the cultural preservation society of London on an ’exchange visit with the cultural preservation society of Paris. They met Eugene Fragarach at the first meeting they attended in Paris. During that meeting they expressed an amateur interest in the occult and Eugene made them aware of the séance that was occurring at the castle. He passed on the invitation to them, telling them that he had a meeting to attend that morning but would meet them at the castle.

#### They prepare to enter the castle…

Sarah goes out early in the morning to buy a new red dress. Alexi [does something – I missed this…] to attempt to enhance his charm and it backfires making him quite unattractive. Gilbert loans Sarah his pendant to hide her pentacle. Sarah takes the moon powder incase something goes wrong and they need to charm their way out of a situation – or make Alexi less ugly. The Hive Mind is invoked by Gilbert (Fabien tried but got a 1 and became enkaibated) to allow Fabien and Gilbert to participate while hiding outside the castle.

#### Arriving at the castle

The castle is a renaissance castle in the countryside [again map/picture needed]. Thinking better of driving up to the castle in the Mystery machine, the company arrives at around 10.30am and parks far enough away to see who arrives. A range of people, of mixed ages, arrive – some in expensive cars and some in taxis. Alexi and Sarah call an Uber black to take them to the door. A valet checks invitation and without hesitation, directs them to the rear of the castle where canapés are being distributed

The Castle has been recently renovated while still remaining true to its renaissance style. It is modern without being ridiculous about it.  The spaces within are very ‘open’ and there are a few people milling about, socialising and chatting in small groups. There are also people outside on a terrace which overlooks an enormous pool.

Sarah drops into Ka-sight and surveys the crowd: There are 20ish people about, all of them humans

Alexi checks for dead people.

### Meeting Miss Whippet

A skinny, blonde woman in her mid 50s introduces herself as Lois Whippet (aka Miss Whippet). Miss Whippet is the owner of the castle and the host of the party. Sarah and she have a superficial conversation about hair and nails. Miss Whippet calls Juliette over.

Alexi introduces himself to Juliette as Brenton and Sarah as Imelda. They explain how they came to be present at the séance (at Eugene’s invitation) and feign to not know why he is absent. They have a conversation about an Juliette’s interest napoleonic artefacts. She indicates that her family is involved in the cultural preservation society of Lyon and offers to put them in touch with her brother Nicholas Enbarr, should they wish to go to Lyon to visit.

### What the Séance is for….

Sarah asks what the purpose of the séance really is. Juliette explains that it is to “Awaken the ghost of the castle”

Apparently Lois Whippet fancies herself as a bit of a clairvoyant. She discovered that there was, centuries ago, a murder in the castle and decided to hold a séance to try to find out more about it.

Miss Whippet organized a seance in the basement of the castle and ‘talked’ to the ghost of the castle, who’s name was Fael – he mentioned something about green hills and war – the whole thing was ‘very spooky’ but it was very brief and it was also unclear as to whether it was actually real or not. Lois clearly believes it is real and holds a public seance in the castle twice a year to try to contact Fael.

To one of these sessions, Juliette brought an item that she got from her grandfather 20 years ago – a celtic torc. She placed it on the table after Miss Whippet was done ‘channeling’ Fael.

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Summoned a different person

The first voice (given his name as cyan – one of cybele’s friends – with james and cybele in ireland (along with Brian, Cyan, Luchar, Lucharba) looking for artefacts) said something about being. This time juliet has brought a pendant given to her by Eugene Fragarasch (intending to return to him tonight) but intends to use it in the seance Lois channels the spirit. by this time its 11.30 Alexi and Sarah go to the libraryHive Mind – research the history of the castle Baronet of the castle was murdered in the basement of 1856 in scandalous circumstance  Jean Eude de la Gonflatierre Try to cast a spell to perceive the knowledge of this to find a book Sarah: Found a book about Jean Became interested in science, chemistry, research, became self educated, travelled, revamped the castle in late renaissance style redid the garden then he got murdered in the book there is a painting – standing proudly with a basic diving bell helmet on the table next to him Chapel built in the garden – St John of Matha Wander in the garden ok kept garden not super well kept small chapel under the trees Statue of a guy with a key Ka-sight – 3 then 1 Go inside – look around – fail miserably Wander back to the seance mingle with the crowd – mix of nobility doctor and his wife a few business people collegue of the husband friends of lois mentality (bubbly) youngsters – friends of the son token lesbian artists having an argument about sarah sleeazy gentlemen Bell rings at 3pm Lois calls people into the seance Escorted downstairs down a narrow staircase Has been designed for drama Lois is wearing a cloak like Eyes Wide Shut Arrive in the basement Juliet says hello – excited about using the pendant Basement – poorly rennovated Alexi rolls a 17 moss in the corners moist damp and mossy not much light in the basement Alexi casts cat’s eye spell Marble table with 10 chairs around it Sarah sits down at the table with 9 others Whippet carries on a bit help me help me find my rosary free me then she’s back to herself – looks excited but exhausted. Juliet takes Sarah’s place at the table Asks to use the pendant Lois picks it up Sarah goes into Ka-sight Lois’s sun-core gets brighter and everyone elses gets dimmer the pendant is definately a stasis suddenly see a pentacle appear in her sun-core Lois starts speaking – says that she is Brian and what in the world is happening – very slippery – can’t hold on – where are the others Then he disappears – now she looks really tired

send a message to juliet about handing over the pendant

Sarah sits next to Lois – gives her brandy

Talks to her about the baronette – rosaries Gilbert asks lois through Sarah about the seances Sarah lost her phone heads to basement with Alexi Ka-sight – something happening in the earth fields not activated but its unsettled Nyctolopia spell moss is growing where it shouldn’t be Cast a spell I perceive a stase (receptacle) nothing in the basement but can sense a stase in the dining room Exchange numbers with Lois The stase in the dining room was the pendant that juliet has

Head back out to the chapel

Stase under the floor I modify pit/trap/hole Find the ivory rosary

Return to party

talk to juliet gives us the pendant juliet gives us her address and offers to show us the torc when we are in paris

Ka-Sight

Look at pendant – rosary No Nephilim in the rosaray

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## FEB 8th 2015 Sunday

### Fabien researches simulacrum hosts

In paris: Fabien to research simulacrum hosts for Sarah, Gilbert and Fabien in case something were to happen. Roll a 12 on deduction looking for comatose patients: have found 3 of them: give this information to Fizz. Fizz will keep our stasis so if we die, our Nephilim will go back to the stasis. Fizz has not found anyone who can make the stasis.

### Gilbert and Fabien find an object to make into a stasis for themselves

Gilbert and Fabien go to an antique store looking for objects that might work out for out stasis. Gilbert wants a unique coin or pendant. Fabien a ring. Fabien gets a flame ring and Gilbert gets an opal pendant.

Gilbert and Fabien look into a mobile alchemy lab: we need 3 instruments each: one for each element that we picked for alchemy.

Fabien needs the following instruments:

1. Forge (fire) mars Tuesday
2. Crucible (earth) venus Friday
3. Alembic (water) mercury Wednesday

Gilbert needs the following instruments:

1. fill in
2. fill in
3. fill in

Find a specialist who can help build these or research them. Fabien researches and makes a forge.

On fire day (Tuesday) will need to transfer fire from his pentacle into the instrument to make the forge an alchemy instrument

## FEB 9th 2015 Monday

### Alexi locates Luchar in Prague

Alexi does a conjuring or something that allows him to look for Luchar via the stasis of Brian and/or Lucharba. A spirit appears and when she touches the pendant – a ripple around the object in gold appears. Alexi receives a flash like vision – he sees a stone or brick basement; shelves on the wall, weapons, trunks, cans of food. Looks like an emergency shelter with very sparse furniture. It is east from here and about 1000km away. We check a map and it looks like Prague is around there; and Io remembers that Trunkel comes from Prague.

Fabien researches making an Alembic – distiller but does not manage to create one.

He purchases chemistry equipment as shown above.  Tries to make it but doesn't succeed. Googles a glass blower and take a class.

## FEB 10th 2015 Tuesday

### Fabien works on Alchemy lab instruments

Fabien does a Master class in glass blowing: rolls an 18 and get his Alembic made.

It's Tuesday (Mars/fire day): Fabien rolls a 20 to test his forge. Fabien puts his hand on the forge, it gets warm and pulsates as he transfers Ka into the forge.

### Alexi spirit of the pack spell

Alexi, uses a Spirit of the pack to help find dead people who are connected to other people. But works on the living too. Alexi asks to use the shard of Astre to find the other shards.

A golden ripple forms and 8 lines branched out when touching Sarah’s bossom (water shard – collected). One line/vision was to Martensen (moon shard – collected).

Alexi believes there may be 9 shards in total. The one being touched on Sarah plus 8 others. Therefore 7 shards still to find.

Another ripple with 4 branches: one to each one of us and 1 to Fizz. Sarah is the source. Then a green man appears (saw before when reminiscing with Io) – and a final bubble branches out in 11 branches, fast flashes – too fast to understand

## FEB 11th 2015 Wednesday

### Fizz finds someone to create stasis for us

Fizz calls to say he has found someone that can help make a stasis for Gilbert and Fabien. We ship the ring and pendant to Fizz.

### Sarah's new hairdo... a seance in the making

Sarah Lembert makes a time to catch up with Lois Whippet at the hairdresser so she can talk to her about organising another seance. Talks about trying to organise rosaries to bring along as the ghost keeps going on and on about it. This will give us the chance to see if we can get Fael back into his stasis. We will need a lot of humans to get the required amount of energy to get this to work. Sarah will need to get to Juliette at some point to get the torc as well.

### Gilbert and Fabien... making their stasis

Gilbert and Fabien catch up with Fizz at a hospital called pitié salpetriere. There is a branch of the Temperance there. In one of the labs there is no one but a scientist wearing a cap and mask. Suspect its a female. She will not talk to us, she’s just there to collect rare dust from us. She has a pétri dish with a needle of orichalcum - pricks Fabien’s finger. Feels like being electrocuted and doused with battery acid. She then puts the needle away. Fabien gains a kaiba point. The dust falls into the pétri dish below his hand. Fizz asks for Fabien’s ring and they (someone from the Temperance) will do the ritual that will link it to him. Will do this overnight and Fizz will give it to Io to hold.

### Fabien Activates his Alembic

Wednesday therefore good day to activate Fabien’s Alembic. Head to Square du Vert-Galant and cast a spell to see if we can find a Water Plexus. Gilbert and Fabien find a small Water Plexus where the river meets. Fabien pours some of the water from the Water Plexus into Alembic and then the Alembic becomes linked to his pentacle.

### Antlers and their runes

The antlers are both foci - connecting with the elements. Gilbert emails a guy that might know about the antlers and the runes on them. It is linked to the sun. Hidden code/secrets - he will tell us more after he looks into it. Io remembers that Cybele used sun-Ka, the basis of which were from the runes.

Fabien does a shape in the core spell and looks at Sarah who is holding the antlers and there is a rune in her and in the antler. Gilbert does the same spell and he can see 2 runes in each antler

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Runes:

Perthro: depends on direction: discretion, lies, secrecy, blindness, bad luck, occult, initiation, illusion. Fabien and Gilbert empathise and I get the rune. Sarah automatically got the reverse perthro rune - someone who resonates strongly with a value automatically can get a rune. Secrecy and Sarah???

Kenaz: knowledge, learning, flame, torch. We all (Gilbert, Sarah and Fabien) collect this rune as we can empathise with learning. Sarah failed to empathise but then automatically got the rune anyway.

### “Reading on a question” spell

One of the antlers describes another spell. And it is called: “Reading on a question”. It allows the rune caster to use the runes he possess - ask a question, cast the runes and get the answer. It’s a divination thing. The difficulty varies depends on how many runes you cast. One rune is not difficult and 5 runes is very difficult and the gradient between that. The more runes you cast the more information you get. You can only use the runes that you have collected. Under futhark divination.

### Futhark Suffusing

The other antler: reveals a new skill: Called futhark suffusing: using a rune to apply a property to an object or a non resisting creature.

## FEB 12th 2015 Thursday

### Gilbert and Sarah activate their bellows

Gilbert and Fabien go to Sac Re Cur to sense an Air Plexus as Gilbert needs one to activate his bellows. Fabien takes a point of kaiba by rolling a 1. Gilbert can see no Air Plexus on the hill but he can see two of them in the distance, a small one and a big one. The small one is south south east from Montmartre in a little plaza with a column in the middle of it and the second bigger one is east south east - Gilbert figured out to be the Parc de Belleville. Fabien and Gilbert head over to parc de Belleville. Gilbert sucks air to his bellow after rolling a 20 and activates the bellow. Phone Sarah to bring along her freshly made Bellow and activate it. Sarah manages to activate hers as well.

Midday:

Sarah calls Juliette to arrange to have dinner. Sarah vouches for two friends, Ben (Fabien) and Julian (Gilbert), and asks if they can join for dinner tonight as they're very interesting. Arranged for 8pm at Louvecienne. Spend the rest of the afternoon doing alchemy.

### Evening: Dinner at Juliette with Emelda, Ben and Julian

Fabien, Sarah, Gilbert head over to Louvecienne to meet up with Juliette. Sarah was known as Emelda at the castle and Alexi as Brenton - both part of the Cultural Preservation of London (CPL)- Eugene was also a member. Fabien and Gilbert go along as part of the CPL.

Sarah asks Juliette what she thought of the seance and if she would like to come along to the next one. Sarah mentions she will go looking for rosary beads to bring along as thats what the "ghost" kept asking for. Juliette first thought that Lois was making it up, but since bringing her own objects/artefacts feels it works.

### History about the torc and the family's artefact trove

Juliette brought a torc that her grandfather, Roland Enbarr, gave to her 20 years ago before he disappeared. It’s a fairly simple torc but an antique. Juliette tells us that her grandfather had a lot of Celtic artifacts that they had in the family for generations. Someone from Prague wanted to buy the collection. He sent letters and they were quite scary. Other friends of the family also had other artefact collections that they wanted to sell. From letters her grandfather wrote/received [unsure which] she recalls that a family friend received an offer for their trove and the friend travelled to the person who wanted buy the collection and never returned… they assumed he received so much money he just travelled away and never came back.

Roland left for Prague with his friend Pierre-Yves Lamfada in 1995 July to meet a Mr Polock. Before leaving he gave the torc to Juliette as he wanted to keep one piece still in the family. The two went to Hotel Bohemia in Prague to meet Mr Polock. Mr police was in his late 40’s and seemed familiar with the person running the hotel. They had a first meeting with Mr Polock but Pierre-Yves and Roland did not have a good feeling about it. They met again at Jan Hus cafe.Mr Polock became a little forceful about them selling their collections and the scene became confrontational and violent - 3 bodyguards arrived. Roland and Pierre-Yves were stalked and watched in and around their hotel. Pierre-Yves suddenly disappeared as well as his collection. The people from the hotel were not helpful about what happened.

Next letter 15 August. her grandfather was feeling really unsafe. Roland went to Johanne Braufman who lived in kourimska street. In the letter Roland made revelations that his visions of the world had completely changed. He was scared and wanted to head back to France but was never heard from again. Juliette thinks the trove was a curse and has not been interested in finding it again. She believes one of the family friends ildanach has been on a rampage and killed himself after killing his whole family.

Sarah asks to take a few pictures of the torc as she wants to make a replica of the torc, claiming she has a torc collection. Juliette offers to have a jeweller she knows make a replica. We have dinner and go home.

Gilbert looks at a shape in the core in Juliette and she has a rune: Wunjo reversed - strife, frenzy, sorrow, loss. Sarah, Gilbert and Fabien empathises and receives the rune. Sarah failed on empathising but still received the rune anyway - puzzling.

### The Companions of Duty - possible humans for opening the Omphalos

In Orleans we will need humans to help with the Omphalos. Pascal Laguarde told us that the last Druids gave their information to the cathedral builders- The Companions of Duty- it’s a French organisation from the Middle Ages. They were craftsman’s who passed down skills and information. Pascal Laguarde copied all their information which is where he got the information he has. The Companions of Duty are not part of any Arcana so they may be perfect for us.

## FEB 12th 2015 Thurday

### Alexi's Travel Abroad

* Headed to Xochimilco - Panteon San Gregorio where grandparents die.
* Activate Cats Eyes - head into cemetary. Clean the plots.
* I contact my Grandmother.  She talks about my grandfater, he was not spiritual at all.
* Cannot contact grandfather tonight.
* Sleep
* Speak with Nour el Ain, I realise that having my freedom came at a cost, the cost was in me and it was my job to face it and deal with it.  It is connected weather about empowering myself at the expense of others.
* Thinking about all of this aligns in me and I feel.  I hear about the third Chakra.
* Talk to Grandfather - he does not think he has owned the doll island.   He dosn't know.   He doesn't remember the picture.
* He doesn't even remember the stories he told me as a child.
* Call Gavriel to arrange to meet later tonight.
* Talk to grandparents.
* Butterflies from childhood are a lie - something is wrong
* Leave Mexico - head to Prague

## FEB 13th 2015 Friday

### Fabien makes a crucible and travels to Orleans

Fabien Googles how to make a crucible. He finds a recipe online and puts the ingredients together. As the ingredients will need to dry out for a week, he comes up with an ingenious plan: and contacts Alexi to ask Martensen if he can place it in his kingdom for a week to dry before putting it in the oven. As this will be instantaneous for us. Martensen agrees and will take note of the favour. Fabien heads to Orleans via train and goes to the square in front of the church too. Fabien gives Martensen the vessel and he disappears and comes back aged a little as we can see stubble  on his face but the vessel is dried out.

### Fabien visits The Companions of Duty

Io tells Fabien that going to The Companions of Duty would be a dual purpose visit for use of their kiln and to talk to them about joining us for opening the Omphalos. Phone call to the Companions and they agree to help. Go to Companions of Duty and met by Eric. The first floor looks like a Museum and there are lots of models of skilled staircases and spires (miniatures). On the next levels is where the kiln is. While the crucible is in the Kiln Fabien chats to the group: Eric, Matthieu, Dominico and another Eric (teenager) - Fabien mentions that we are having a gathering for the travellers or something like that and although he doesn’t know all the details it would be great if they could come along. They are very keen, he mentioned that there would be with the lost travellers of genabum - and there might involve Druidic and gothic architecture but the details are sketchy and an emailed invitation will follow.

Fabien then travels to the Ilex institute to the big tree where there is an Earth Plexus. Fabien goes into Ka-sight and see the Earth Plexus to activate the crucible with earth.

Fabien contacts the others to tell them he’s in Orleans is there anything he should do while there…

* Odorio and Zora are here. Try catch up with them later; Also will
* Ask Zora if she could make an amulet for Sarah to hide her pentacle.

Sarah is getting the details of the jeweller replicating the torc. Also looking for rosary beads to take along to the seance.

Gilbert researches a kabbala creature who can make a copy of information and his name is Tamalés Opalescent Shadows.

### Gilbert meets up with Fizz

Gilbert goes to meet Fizz to pick up his and Fabien's stasis. He asks Fizz a bunch of questions:

* Sarah's origins: Fizz had to pick up Sarah in one of the worlds of the Kabbala. Does not tell us which world she was from but it’s a world of the Kabbala that is very linked to Sarah and it’s a world that is barely ever explored. Fizz barely knows of this part of the Kabbala. Sarah looks newborn. Based on a very virginal looking pentacle. (Under spellcasting we could sense and see sun-cores and pentacles etc when we are experts or masters.)
* Ask about futhark and runes: Fizz knows nothing, first time he heard of it was when we told him about Cybele.
* About our origins as newborn Nephilims: Zora is the one who put all of us together. She felt we were all tied to the Astre thing. Some background history: Adele and Rachid (Fizz) were in Lyon. Fizz and Adele got contacted by Zora. Zora sensed a great conjunction was going to happen and new Nephilim might be born. The lab exploded when the conjunction occurred. Rachid died and Fizz went to Madame Rolande's simulacrum. Adele decided to not be part of this and went her own way. Zora knew there was going to be a birth of immortals somehow. Zora found Alexi and Fabien and made sure they would find Madame Rolande with Io. Fizz was contacted by an unknown person that said that an american newborn Nephilim was present - hence Gilbert. And another unknown person told her about Sarah in a Kabbala world.
* What would Fizz do if he was us: Fizz would ask the Wheel of Fortune Arcana how a pentacle could be fractured into more than 5 pieces if he was able to direct us but Zora thinks the only way we will survive is if we don’t act like typical Nephilim. What killed astre was going on her quest for knowledge the Nephilim way. We need to go on a different pathway.

Gilbert attaches the stasis of Gilbert’s and Fabien’s on Io’s collar.

## FEB 14th 2015 Saturday

Valentines day!!! Gilbert comes out of the closet to Fabien

### Gilbert and Fabien head to Prague - to locate the stasis of Lechar

Gilbert and Fabien head to Prague via plane and are there by midday. They arrive in Prague and go to Kourimska street where Johanne Braufman lived. Fabien googles Johanne Braufman and get his last known address (rolled a 14). The address was registered 30-40 years ago. The last known date of him living there was 20 years ago. Google also tells us he was a high school history teacher. No digital footprint other than that. No death certificates or family. No link to a preservation society. He lived on the 3rd floor of the building. On his street, mid-sized apartment buildings.We go into Ka-sight outside the building. Low roll die. Can’t see anything from the street. Our pentacles are hidden. We follow someone into the building and head up the stairs to the third floor. We go into Ka-sight but nothing stands out. We do a spell to sense stasis/container/chalice - Gilbert does the spell. Fabien attempts the spell but not a high enough role. All we sense is the two stasis on Io’s collar. We notice that the door is wedged closed but the lock is actually broken. Fabien does a spell “I perceive the apartment living-space/sociability (+1pt)” to see what’s going on inside the apartment. Our vision and hearing are propelled inside the apartment. It’s a hobos apartment - it’s dirty and there are 3 homeless people in there at the moment. This seems like a dead end.

### Hotel Bohemia

We also know that Juliette's grandfather stayed at the hotel bohemia and the staff their apparently knew Trunkel. We head over to the Hotel Bohemia also might need to check out Jan Hus cafe. We get a room at the hotel. The hotel is an expensive but decrepit hotel, once upon a time was a nice hotel. There is an old man behind the counter. We get our things into the room.

### Gilbert and Fabien get frisky

Gilbert gets naked all of sudden and hints at wanting sex with Fabien and they give it a go… ooooh la la ooooh la la... fireworks etc...

Our plan for the evening will be to explore the hotel, then go to the cafe in the morning and figure out what to do after that.

### Alexi comes back from Mexico

Alexi arrives at the hotel that evening with a heart-shaped box of chocolates. He says there is something wrong with a few things discovered there:

* Something weird about the dark moon fields.
* some weird timeline issues.
* Alexi remembers a lot of butterflies associated with memories of his grandfather; but his dead grandfather doesnt recall anything about butterflies.

### Exploring the hotel

Alexi, Gilbert and Fabien explore the hotel. We use the spells for locating a stase while in ka-sight - Roll a 20 so can see each level in it's entirety. Level 5 has no stase. Ka-sight reveals nothing. We run down to each floor and find nothing from the lobby to the upper-level, there is no stase.

### Panic in the lobby

In the lobby we can see the old man behind the counter; there's a lot of people around in the lobby and lounge area probably because it's valentines day. Alexi will empty out the hotel by casting a Call of the Torturer spell to make everyone think there is a poison gas/black moon contamination. It will be safe for us but everyone will run out. Alexi heads to a toilet/bathroom down the hall to cast the spell and play with his flute. Fabien and Gilbert approach the old man and ask if he is familiar with a Mr. Pollock (Trunkel). He has no idea who we are talking about. Fabien tries to bribe the old man and still has no idea. He hears the flutes coming from the toilet down the hall where Alexi is doing his spell or maybe he saw the smoke. Alexi succeeds with the smoke. Someone pulled the fire alarm. The old man punches Gilbert. Gilbert weathered the attack and counterattacked with a punch except he rolls a 1. He goes into panic and runs out of the building thinking it’s on fire. The old man also tries to flee. Fabien uses a kabbala creature to lock the door. Both Gilbert and the old man run straight into the locked door. Alexi finds the basement door and starts to go down. People start running up the stairs. Alexi activates his armour and rolls a 20 and he can hear pavan loudly. He is given a free 20 roll to use with any magic spell as he’s in tune with his magic.

### Spirit of the pack

Alexi casts the spirit of the pack to find out what around him is connected. He sees a wolf woman appear then three rays of light that goes to Fabien, one goes toward the door and you see darkness. Another goes back to Sarah. Another burst of rays: two go west south west (to Mexico) about the same distance and you see a widow all dressed in black and her face is veiled and very spanish, the other ray (also in Mexico) goes to a very ugly man that is a mix of a human and a toad and around him he is in a house but also in sunlight. The third ray goes mostly east and to another garden. There are a lot of red posts with symbols. There is a woman in a white kimono. She is surprised and Alexi thinks it's his grandmother when she was much younger. She takes a breath and he feels pushed back into his body. When back in his body, his pendant is burning. It can't be his grandmother as it looks at the present not the past. So she is somehow linked to Alexi but not the grandmother.

### Back to the fight

Fabien activates a bead of strength. Four goons coming running up the stairs. Gilbert and the old man are panicking at the locked door. Alexi is now in the in reception behind the counter. Fabien is in the lounge area. Fabien tries to do arthurian rail spell; rolls a 1 and gets a point of khaiba. Alexi takes out his gun and prepares for his wolverine claws. But rolls a 5 and fails. As the goons burst into the smoke, they are taken aback and 3 of them roll terrible rolls of intelligence and go running back into the basement. So this leaves just 1. Gilbert suddenly remembers what's going on and the spell has worn off. We go into combat mode.

Initiative: Fabien goes first rolls a 15 on Fast, then the goon, then Gilbert then Alexi.

* Fabien runs towards the goon and hurl the flying needles bead at him.Fabien rolls a 17 on agility to throw the bead - Quite difficult. The goon rolls a 3 to dodge and fails but weathers well and takes only half the damage... 1 damage point to goon.
* The goon shoots at Fabien, he tries to dodge but fails. Damage - roll of resistance was good 18 and so receives half the weapons damage which is rounded down to 1. This is just a skin wound. Fabien damage 1.
* Gilbert tries arthurian rail and fails.
* Alexi shot at the goon but he dodged.
* Fabien punches at goon using 1kg alchemy bead. Goon dodges
* Goon shoots at Alexi. Alexi weathers and takes no damage thank to amour. Alexi counteracts and shoots at Goon but does only 1 point of damage.
* Then Gilbert bludgeons the goon and he is unconscious.

### Shrinking Goons and finding a prisoner

The old man runs for the stairs to the basement. We know there are at least 3 goons plus the old man down there. Alexi shoots the unconscious goon. We head down into the basement and see the 3 goons, the old man; there are 3 holding cells, one of which has a person in it. Gilbert shrinks 2 of the goons for one minute leaving one goon and the old man. Gilbert then shrinks the others so all 4 are shrunk. We throw the little shrunken guys into one of the empty cells. We head up and drag the body from the lobby down into the basement.

### Covering up

Gilbert uses the princes of the torchlit labrynth to hide the basement door. We are all in the basement. We need to find out if there is backup coming perhaps using the necklace that causes pain (choker of truth). Alexi wakes up the corpse. He asks if there is another way into the basement. Most likely backup has been called. He sends the goon upstairs to deal with police and fire and also to send off any other Templars who may arrive. By 1am the next morning the firemen and Templars have come and gone.

## FEB 15th 2015 Sunday

### The prisoner's identity - Johanne Braufman

Before going to bed. The Templar goons are shocked into submission and the prisoner is rocking back and forth. Gilbert goes into Ka-sight to look at the prisoner - he is human with a moderate sun-core. We ask who he is. He is still rocking back and forth. Fabien summons a Kaballa creature <The prosecutor whose eyes are basilisks of ruby> so we can find out the truth about who he is and what he knows. Fabien rolls a 2 then a 20. Alexi asks his goon who it is. He does not know but says he’s been here for 20 years or more. Fabien asks the prisoner his name. He doesn’t reply. We ask how long he’s been here? a long time is the reply. Why are they keeping you a prisoner? Doesn’t answer. Do you have any family? Doesn’t answer this question. Can you remember who you are? Yes. Are you Roland Enbarr? No. Are you Johanne Braufman? Yes. Johanne Braufman was a friend of Roland Enbarr. Johanne asks us if we are Nephilims? Yes we are. How do you know of Nephilims? He has heard the Templars talking about them for years and years. He has heard a lot of bad things about them but he’s intrigued by meeting Nephilims. We tell him some are good. We tell him that we know Juliette, Rolands granddaughter. We believe Roland is dead. He asks if we are there for the collection. We tell him we are there for parts of the collection. He knows Trunkel is looking for the collection. Trunkel used to visit him but not much anymore. We ask if he knows where the collection is. He wants to know what's in the collection. We tell him about the stasis in the collection. He wants to know if he will be possessed ie used as a simulacrum. We tell him if he helps us we will help him. He agrees to tell us where the collection is if we release him. Johanne has heard a lot of things, he doesn’t know whats important.

### Weaponing up

We look around the basement: it has food, ammunition, maps. We look at the maps - they have a second hideout at the Jan Hus cafe. We grab some weapons. Guns, rifles, semi-autos, bludgeons, knives, granades. There’s a computer and Fabien has a quick look on there for information. Deduction: not much there. Not a lot of important information. Johanne tells us this is a small group of isolated Templars and might not be useful. Fabien setups a hack on the email to forward all emails sent here to forward to me. Roll 20. Goon left at the desk to keep things going as normal and wake us up if needed. We go to bed. Johanne has a shower and goes to bed.

### Johanne takes us to the hidden collection

We wake up later that day. It’s noon. We make sure the people in the basement have food and water, then we head off with Johanne to get the collection. Johanne takes us to the cemetary next to his apartment building. Jewish cemetery - he goes to a mausoleum thing and breaks in and behind one of the coffins is a bag with treasure in it. We slip into Ka-sight. 3 foci jump out. One is of sun - like the antlers - not chromatic; one is black moon and one is chromatic. We take the 3. There is no stasis in this collection. Before leaving for Prague Roland gave the torc to Juliette and that was the only stasis that he had. We ask Johanne if he would be interested in being in the pact of the setting sun at the end of all of this. He is excited by this.

### Healing

Alexi finds an expert healer that won’t ask any questions. Resilence, expert level, difficulty of the wounded level.

Alexi and Gilbert are successful but have to wait a week. Fabien failed his healing process. After Sunday 22nd Fabien can try again.

### Fabien Increases his fire Ka

Fabien uses alchemy to try make a faster magic healing process. The moaning calcination. Fabien spends some time doing Alchemy to make those metal beads and a few others. This increases Fabien's fire Ka and also fire skill level in alchemy. As he's in tune with his magic he gets a free 20 roll.

### The White-haired man - free 20 roll in magic

Fabien faints: he is floating above a wild expanse of tall grass that's weaving around. In front of him is a wall of amber - it is shining from the inside. Looks like he's in front of an akasha. No door to be seen, looks like he'll be. smacked against this wall but suddenly it's not there anymore. Suddenly on top of a hill in a dessert. Shrubs go on forever, the fields feel very pure. Suddenly next to me him is the white-haired man. He is petulant, having a mild tantrum. He's very teenage like. He says "so I guess you're not even done yet. That’s a stupid thing to do if you’re not done. Your whole quest for enlightenment." He looks like a young adult. He doesn't understand why Fabien started this thing. "This who agartha thing is so passe" and he doesn't understand why Fabien is doing it. He has locked all the doors to this place. We are in an akasha - Fabien asks if he's a Nephilim, he can't say what he is. He thinks there are humans trying to get in and thats why he locked all the doors. He will go apeshit if they get in here. He’s bored. "Be done, do your thing and come back." And poof back in my body.

### Gilbert also increases his Ka and gets a free 20 roll

Gilbert wants to know the story behind the people on the farm. What their story was and how he’s linked to them. Gilbert faints: he is floating above a see of grass. A wall of amber - light is glowing through it. Then he is walking in the middle of a really thick mist. Wet squishy between feet. Its cold. Can hear the voice of child. Wait for me, what are you doing? Feel a few things rush past you in the mist. Kid starts screaming - traumatised shriek. Something terrible is happening then not there anymore; suddenly he is in a small room made of wood and there is someone sitting on the edge of the bed, it's a man and he's dressed in 14th century clothing - grubby, looks sick. Gilbert realises this is Frederique - one of the 4 people on the farm in Bosc Ardeche with him.

* F: Gilbert how the fuck did you get here?
* G: Where am I?
* F: Back at work.
* G: I'm really concerned about you and the others.
* F: how is the quest going? Did you find your friends? The others like you?
* G: How many are there?
* F: No idea.
* G: Are you human?
* F: Yeah.
* G: Can you tell me more about your Sun-Ka magic?
* F: Might be completely irrelevant.
* G: Are you living and working in an akasha?
* F: Yes.
* G: Is there any need for me to continue searching for you?
* F: Once you done he will search for you? Unless the quest will bring you to this akasha.
* G: What brought us together in the first place?
* F: There's an agreement not to say too much. Knowing too much could be a hindrance. You're friends and for now you need to keep doing what you're doing and when you're back then they can continue.
* G: Is there anything he can say that wont affect the quest?
* F: You're a good person and a good Nephilim, which is rare. You've got allies and he's one of them. And he will keep an eye on you and there are people watching you but they need to do it discreetly. You are not completely alone. Keep out of Nephilim politics. Keep respecting humans. Get on with your quest. Steer away from the Mysteries (Mystes) the Minor Arcana.
* G: Can Zora be trusted?
* F: She is the tool of the Nephilim. She is the human lap-dog.
* Alexi asks: What names do you know Gilbert by?
* F: He doesn’t know your real name but you've been using plenty of other names - indian names mostly. “Satyagraha”.
* G: The relationship between him and the white-haired man?
* F: He doesn’t know this person/chimera. He thinks he is a chimera of an akasha.
* F: Don’t share Sun-Ka magic with other Nephilims. Write it down and drop it in a public place.

### Sunday evening - email from Trunkel

Email from Trunkel, wondering why he has not been debriefed and why protocol has not been followed. Comes through via the email that Fabien hacked. Check other emails to see how they chat to each other. Seems coded, text doesn’t flow, might take some time to break The Companions of Dutye. Fabien rolls a 19. New skill for Fabien: Minor Arcana - Templars. Also we have Johanne on our side who is a Templar specialist. This gives Fabien the skill to reply using the correct code and protocol. We need to decide what to say, setup a trap or just hold off some time

### Using Runes

Deduction on using runes: Fabien rolls a 10: quite good. Need to make your own runes on organic material - bones, stone, wood, glass (unprocessed). Casting onto a piece of material OR cast runes one at a time OR draw lines of past, present future and go from there. Fabien and Gilbert go get some stones from a local park and engrave the runes into them as a temporary measure.  Time to test the runes: Reading on a question: Gilbert give it a shot: Q: Where is the stasis of Luchar hidden? Gilbert throws his runes and rolls a 12 this allows for 2 runes of information. 2 runes are facing up after casting they are: Manaz (brotherhood) and Otala (Home). Gilbert's Sun-Ka is depleted of 1 point for 1 hour. Alexi rolls a 20 and can see this. Alexi is an expert in Sun-ka and can take sun-ka from a human in a heightened emotional state and convert it into black moon. Fabien tries rune casting: Is the stasis of Luchar at the cafe? Fabien rolls an 8. Too low and nothing happens. Gilbert gives it another go and rolls a 19.

Hiding house brotherhood joy. We assume this means their hiding Luchar's stasis at the cafe since thats the other hideout.

### Email reply to Trunkel

Need to send Trunkel an email. Johanne tells us that Trunkel wears a ring containing orichalcum and a sword made of orichalcum. Io says its probably not a sword made of orichalcum but has some mixed into the steel. Email says: Someone triggered the fire alarm and we had to evacuate and now given all clear and back in the hotel. Everything is fine. Sorry for not following protocol. Trunkel is convinced. Fabien uses moaning calcination bead to heal. Gilbert uses one and gives one to Alexi. Excruciating pain. Feel like death doing it. We go to sleep

## FEB 16th 2015 Monday

Wake up in the morning and we are healed. We are slightly traumatised from the bead.

### Gilbert activates his Athenor

Gilbert is going to find a Moon Plexus. Io says commonly found in scary places, spooky, unhinged where drugs and sex are. We google and find: The Church of Bones. Gilbert goes there and in Ka-sight he can see a small Moon Plexus there. Gilbert activates his athanor.

### Fabien researches a Kabbalist armour against orichalcum

He researches and then rolls a 20. The Kabbala creature is found called The glowing halo of the truth seeker - It protects from 1 point of magical damage per level of the difficulty of the contract. (need to ask if we can protect the team when we summon the creature) - variable difficulty. We go to a look in an antique store and purchase a painting of a saint, to give to the Kabbala creature. Fabien summons the kabbala creature with a great sigil. A purple, lightning rises from the ground; flat shards of stone or metal are floating about. There is a presence among them, they can’t see the body. Fabien gives him the gift and asks some questions. the creature can protect just the person who summons him and the armour will protect against orichalcum. We thank the creature and tell him we will be calling him in the next day or two. We get a few more items from the antique store for future gifts.

### Alexi's bodyguards

Alexi wants to build up a bodyguard store by getting dead police or guards and animating them. Fabien hacks into medical records at the hospital, morgue, police and military records. In the last week there has been young fit people but nobody with skills in weaponry. We still decide to go ahead with this plan and go to the cemetery and Fabien summons a Kabbala creature to hide the grave we will unearth. The grave sight is hidden. Also Fabien does spell to open the grave for 1 minute. Alexi grabs the body out quickly. He does his flute thing and uses a Salems cliche call of the scholar - black moon entity.  Eventually has a functioning corpse after a long afternoon trying to animate it. Fabien ends the contract so we can leave this cemetery. Go to another cemetery. Gilbert summons kabbalah creature to hide the area and is successful. He tries the spell to open the grave but he fails and somehow the ground all around us sinks and we all are injured with twisted ankles for about 24 hours (17th Feb). Gilbert has another go and opens the grave. Alexi does his thing to reanimate the corpse. Alexi now has the goon from the hotel + 2 others.

## FEB 17th 2015 Tuesday

We have twisted ankles. Alexi is planning to go back to Orleans to Martensen to his Kingdom -  he needs to recharge his black moon reserve.

### Mystes concern Io

Io is concerned about Gilbert’s friend Frederique wanting to know more about futhark. She thinks they might be from the Mystes. Mystes are the Minor Arcana of the sword. Mystes are trying to get magic, very into magic. Anyone in a sect is probably linked to Mystes. Like the sect of Cybele. They like to treat Nephilims like batteries - consume them. The Mystes created the homunculus and stasis. It was created as a prison. Only a small population of Nephilims are incarnated, a lot of them are in imprisoned in stasis. Gilbert asks Io about our connection with the Mystes. Be careful around them. Helpful until they consume you.

### Mystes and Nephilims

Humans (ie. the Myste) and Nephilims were at war for a long time. The way they created peace was through a pact. The Myste would become the priest of the Nephilims. In egypt - the house of life was made by Mystes. The Mystes allowed a Nephilim to incarnate a pharaoh, but only once. Because of mummification the Nephilim was trapped in the simulacrum of a dead one. This ended with the one and only messiah of the Nephilim -  Akhenaten. He created all the major and Minor Arcana. He made the blades of the Arcana. He was not mummied. The head of the templars became insanely powerful and was about to unleash an extremely powerful magic on the Nephilims. The Nephilims and Mystes united to create a magic that summoned a Black-moon creature called the dog of sirius to fight the templars. It killed the Nephilims that summoned it.

### Alexi researches:

* Call of a torturer. Make people use a doorway or opening.
* Call of the scholar: Niscefael - the compassionate serfim of the boundless empathy

### Foci from Johanne's collection

Alexi is also looking into the three artifacts from Johanne’s collection. 3 items were foci

1. One foci was about futhark. A skill called Futhark infusing. It is possible create spells that allow the runecaster to infuse properties into himself from the runes.
2. Second foci was a Selenim magic foci: Alexi gets information from Martensen about the woman he saw when he did the spirit of the pack call. Cannot see in the past. So not actually his grandmother but someone linked to him in the present. Does the past make sense - is it fabricated? This person is not ready to talk to him right now.
3. Nephilim magic: Alexi passes information to Gilbert and Fabien via text message: It is a spell: called the sovereign anticipation. Perceive Master level. Decision is the analogy word. It allows us to read in the eye of the intention of their target. Can’t be surprised. Lowers their action of opposition (attack, dodging, etc.) by 1 level.

### Alexi summons Niscefael

Alexi calls Niscefael - ?kabbala-like creature. Helps with empathy - good for futhark. He spoke to him - doesn’t normally happen with other calls he makes as they are like a golem (like a dragon effect). They just appear and have no history. This one had a social life, memory etc. Knows a creature that is a women in green fog and lives in water?

### Fabien researches and fails

Fabien is looking for an analogy word for invisibility/illusion. Roll on deduction and intelligence. Rools a 1. Suddenly not in his apartment. There is stranger in the apartment. Not talking in French. Not sure where he is. A moment of confusion.

Gilbert rolls a dice of 20 for a shape in the core on Fabien. The rune on Fabien’s core is Algiz upside down. ?Also a spell called the meaning of the rune?<where or how did this happen>. Slightly difficult spell in divination. Allows you to perceive the name and meaning of this rune. Gilbert was going to try Futhark suffusing but by the time he gets anywhere with working it out Fabien is returning back to normal.

### Brian's Stasis

Io is reminding us that we have stasis of Nephilims that were close to Cybele. We can’t bring out Lercharba, but we have the stasis of Brian. We need to know what element he is so we can put the stasis in the plexus of that element. Spell of sensing - expert level info on the element of the Nephilim. Spell: "I sense the Nephilim/stasis/receptacle reveals he is an air Nephilim. Air Plexus on a Thursday?.

### Gilbert researches futhark from Brian's stasis

Gilbert draws a sigil for Kabbala creature: “The wiseman cloaked in shadows from the white mountain beyond the misty shores” - wants to ask him about Futhark. The creature asks if this person would normally tell us the information. Gilbert says he thinks so. He tells him the story of what our intentions are for bringing Nephilims out of stasis and into a body that is of a brain-dead person. The Kabbala creature thinks this is quite honorable. He allows the contract to ahead with a roll that wasn’t quite enough. This overgrown guy kabbala creature on the couch strokes the pendant. Gilbert asks: "How do we use Futhark magic?" Brian: "Futhark magic was a specialty of Cybele’s. She is not here right now. Lucharba would also be better at helping." Brian believes that Cybele had found and mapped a branch of magic that could be used by every magical creature on earth, she found it in scandinavia. Based on crystalisation of notions/concepts or memes; done mostly by humans in the shapes of symbols - runes. Divided in three circles. First circle: divination, suffusion, infusion. Like spell casting words of analogy -  analogical rune. Engrave, paint, write rune. Make a spell in a similar way. I suffuse.. I infuse… or Using divination…

For example: to increase protection. Paint rune symbol on yourself: I infuse algiz on myself for increased protection. (Anchors your intention). However using runes uses up/consumes your sun-Ka. Futhark as a type of magic is difficult for Nephilim to grasp. The concept is weird and connecting with the sun-core is not normal. Brian found it confusing and too pragmatic. According to Cybele runecasting was an easy version of spellcasting. Could even make the person’s shape the same as the rune. Or see the rune in a vein on your arm or lots of ways of seeing the rune in or on an object.

### Gilbert and Fabien locate a Fire Plexus in Prague to transfer Ka into their forges

We look for a Fire Plexus at the war museum Fabien rolls a 17 but no plexus found there. We head off to Davinci full or brothels etc. We can’t find a plexus there. Io tells us that St Nicolas church - burning of the witch every year might have a Fire Plexus. Fabien: Roll a 1 and enkaibated. No plexus there. We go to sauna Bonbon. It has a strong Fire Plexus. Both Fabien and Gilbert successfully transfer Ka into their forges.

## FEB 18th 2015 Wednesday

We learn from Johanne that there is a basement in the cafe. From Futhark we know the stasis we are looking for is there.

### Healing Kaiba with a Kabbala creature

We call Fizz to ask for help. Fizz is a kabbalist: he is going to give us a referral. The creature is called: The red swirl upon the murky waters. Creature of fire. Aresh - Netzar. She is a skitish creature and needs to be summoned in front of a body of water that could hold at least 2 human bodies. We ask Fizz about invisibility but nothing comes to mind. Creatures of yesod or hod that might help? Orichalcum will protect Trunkel against magic damage not physical damage.

### Kabbala creature that can distract

Fizz finds a kabbala creature that will distract using gusts of wind and causing havoc. Any action gains one level of difficulty. The playful sylphes, dancers of the wind. Element is Air. Meborak, yesod, not difficult.

### Summoning "The red swirl upon the murk waters"

We need a body of water: hot springs Karlovy Vary. We pick up some red roses, candles and other valentines days things. We’re in a private room standing next the water. Lit the candles and red roses about. Fabien draws a sigil and few drops of blood drip in the middle of the bathtub and it swirls and rises. The water becomes murky and milky with red swirls and a woman appears. Fabien gets in the water, and rolls a successful contract. She runs through him and removes one point of Kaiba. She says she will see him tomorrow l.e. can only remove one point of Kaiba per day. Gilbert is also able to lose a point of Kaiba despite crappy rolls of the die. She felt sorry for him. Awwwwwww

### Fabien reactivates his alembic

Fabien does a spell to sense a Water Plexus but fails, Gilbert does one and succeeds. There is a small plexus in the coolest pool. Fabien goes there with his alembic and rolls successfully.

### Worst case scenario with Astramance

Gilbert will summon Astramance for a worst case scenario:

Q: "What is the worst case scenario if we let him Trunkel live?" She appears and the contract is successful.

A: If he goes to the cemetary to the goons, he will realise quickly that it was a setup. He may warn the templars there and make his way back. He will call templars back in the hotel for backup. But there is a window of opportunity. He may not realise the stasis is missing. He may hunt us down and kill us. Depends on the level of insult as to how he will he react.

### Plan for Trunkel to lure him away and go to the cafe and get the stasis

* Send Trunkel an email to lure him into the cemetery. Goons will be in the cemetery.
* The collection from Johanne Braufmann will be buried in a grave and Trunkel can spend a night digging it up.
* Gilbert and Fabien will do reconnaissance outside the cafe. Hack cameras. Locate stasis.
* Alexi is going into the cafe to look around. He has a disguise that makes people forget him instantly - called a smoke screen - imago-animorph. Alexi goes in and sees a regular cafe with great danishes.
* Need to wipe the memories of the goons in the hotel. Alexi looks into this
* Make ourselves look like the goons before heading into the cafe.
* Get the stasis
* Get rid of people we dug up from cemetery.
* Send our things back to France and head back ourselves

### Fabien hacks the cafe cameras

Fabien and Gilbert head around the back to have a sneak peak. Its a small cafe and seems normal from the front and back. Seems to be a basement with a small window. There is an obvious camera at the back. Fabien attaches to the wifi to hack their cameras. Rolls successfully. There is a fair number of cameras in the place. There is security on doors and windows if they open. The basement has a storage room and livable area. Looking through the camera - only one person is the basement who is asleep instead of the watching the screens. 6 people in there. Trunkel in the office. People who work in the cafe. Fabien loops the cameras feed for 24 hours back. Gilbert does a sense and perception spell to find the stasis. Fabien does a perceive spell and is successful to look through the wall. Its a small cramped place, kitchen, bunk beds, weapons, crates in the corner. The stasis is in the crates.

### Alexi does some research into removing memories

The victims will need be asleep. We add sleeping tablets to the food for the goons in the basement of the hotel. All the goons are now asleep including the old man. We grab a hair off each one to be used for alchemy if required. Alexi does a conjuring on all of the goons and their memory disappears.

### Gilbert makes skin-walker beads

Gilbert does a “skin walker” alchemy to modify our appearances - he successfully makes 3 beads for 3 seperate goons.

### Burying Johannes collection and sending the email

We go to bury the chest in the cemetery. Fabien makes a hole to hide the chest using a spell and rolls 20. A minute later it refills up. We send an email to Trunkel saying "When Johanne heard that a mausoleum had been broken into he freaked out and revealed that the collection is buried in a grave nearby. We will send a guy to help you with digging up the grave." The goon we send will try slow Trunkel down from digging up the collection as he is instructed by Alexi.

### Getting the stasis from the cafe

Fabien and Gilbert use an alchemy bead made to transform their appearances. Alexi does an animorph conjuring to turn his finger into a key to unlock the door and to change his appearance. Alexi sends a goon to smash on the front door of the cafe. Rolls a 12. One of the templars is completely convinced and tries to convince the goon to go elsewhere as they're closed. The other templar is not easily distracted. Alexi gets the other goon to come and start fighting with the one at the door. Now both templars are distracted. But one of them does call Trunkel for backup. Gilbert and Fabien disguised as goons slip into the cafe and go down into the basement and go into ka-sight looking in the crates. There are a few things visible in Ka-sight: We take the 6 foci and a bronze dagger that is the stasis. Time to leave the cafe, heading up out of the basement: We roll an agility roll and Gilbert rolls a bad die and stumbles but Fabien rolls a high die and catches him and then they both slip out the cafe. Alexi yells at the goons to stop and they do and run away. The templars don’t know who Alexi is so it just goes smoothly.

At the cemetery, the goon was not a great at trying to delay getting into the grave to get the collection. Trunkel found the trunk and the goon died at the end. Trunkel pushed the goon in the hole and buried him. Later we go back to the cemetery and Gilbert creates another hole and we bury all the other guys to cover our tracks.

## FEB 19th 2015 Thursday

* We fly back to Paris to get the torc which the jeweller was making a replica of.
* Fabien will need to change the date of Eugene’s death to 3 days later so as to not cause suspicion from Juliette

### Fabien modifies Eugene's death date

Difficult feat to change date of death: Roll’s successfully and hacks into the registry of deaths - police records and changed the date successfully

### Swapping the torcs

Our concern about swapping the torc will be that Juliette will need to think the replica is the original. The replica will have an insignia from the jeweller that copied it. So we need to remove that. Alexi knows a jeweller in the underworld but is unsuccessful in his roll. We decide we will force the jeweller to add extra layer on both the original and the replica to cover the insignia and make a new insignia on the original. We think we could do this at gunpoint and then remove his memory. He has another person working with him, so maybe at the workshop after-hours.

Plan: ambush him at his car in the evening. It’s 6pm and a stormy night, the jeweller gets in his car and we get in straight after. We explain what we need him to do. Alexi rolls and convinces him that he needs to do this or else. We wait half an hour for his assistant to leave the jewellery shop. We head into the jewellery shop. The jeweller will add a layer of bronze on the original and the replica and original. Will engrave into the bronze, this is because we cannot modify the stasis. This all goes well. We give him a sleeping tablet but he freaks out and tries to attack us with a hammer. Not difficult attack, Alexi dodges. Fabien does a sigil for “The Ministers of Peace Dressed in Beryl” kabbala creature. But does not succeed with the contract. Alexi brings the jeweller round by convincing him that it’s just a sleeping tablet and the jeweller agrees to take it if he can make it up himself. He slowly falls asleep. Alexi does he flute thing… to remove his memory. Creature appears and Alexi asks him to remove the memory associated with Alexi and Fabien tonight. His head looks to explode and then reform and the memory disappears. We leave the jeweller asleep in his workshop. Tomorrow Sarah will pick up the torcs.

Fabien goes to the river and draws a sigil for The red swirl upon the murky waters.  The second roll is a successful roll and she runs through Fabien and 1 point of Kaiba disappears.

## FEB 20th 2015 Friday

### Sarah gets the torcs and returns Juliette the replica

Sarah got a last minute gig in London doing a show.  She’s back. She will need to pick up the torcs from the jeweller today. Sarah comes back with both torcs. Sarah goes into Ka-sight and can see the one with the insignia is the stasis and the replica looks like the original. Sarah takes it to Juliette, she is impressed with the copy, takes back her original (replica) and the two part ways.

### Deciphering one foci

Alexi contacts a person from the museum in Paris that he has used for deciphering celtic artifacts in the past. He offers money for the help this time. She gets back to him with information on one of the foci.

* Nephilim spell: a modify spell: “The Wound Eater”, element is earth. Analogy: renewal and medicine. It allows closure of wounds temporarily. Can be used to ignore wounds during attacks for example for the duration of the spell. Ie. not wounded - level unaffected during an attack but will be wounded again after the spell is done.

### Alexi deciphers another foci he found in Prague

Alexi found a melody foci in prague. He talks to Sarah about music - revealing “The blue flames of the last moment” - fireflies that if you know the name of a Nephilim that may or may not be in a stasis. It will fly around the stasis if the Nephilim is in it, if not in the stasis they will disappear. If the Nephilim is dead they dance like crazy. After a couple hours they get really grumpy and depressed, any immortal who sees them will get grumpy and then will become suicidal.

Alexi tries the flute and asks about Astre - the fireflies dance like crazy. Astre is dead!!!

## FEB 21st 2015 Saturday

Heading back to Orleans with Johanne to take him to the Pact of the Setting Sun.

### Alexi gets skills and information from Martensen

Alexi goes to Martensen - wants to know how to convert sun-ka into Black-moon i.e. sublimate. Martensen doesn’t know how but says Lilith may know.

### Lilith

she’s a powerful Selenim. She is the princess of the 13th Arcana - but she has not be heard of for a long time. She is the mother of all Selenims. She is the one who created babylon, ruled of babylon, made pacts between Nephilims and Selenims. She has a massive cult of followers - most of them wildly fanatical Selenims. Sometimes acted against her own cult. The blade of the 13th Arcana was stolen away from her. Or did she give it away. she could even travel through Akashas not just antiterres. Maybe that’s where she is.

Alexi asks about clairvoyance to Martensen, he passes on 3 spells.

### Take Johanne to the umbilicus

Go to the vague grounds - looks like a ricketty place with sad looking trees, abandoned washing machines etc. A dirty passage of forest. But then as you walk through there are colourful carriages and music playing and the smell of nice food etc… a typical gypsy camp (but friendly). In there is the umbilicus and both Odorio and Ahun are there. Sarah asks Zora if an object can be created to help hide her pentacle. Alexi asks about Sarah’s metamorph (known as opium). We talk to Odorio about Johanne, he has good background knowledge of the templars and he has a good sun-core. We inform Odorio that he would like to join the pact of the setting sun. Odorio is ok with this.

Alexi does a shape in the core on Johanne and sees a rune called Raido. The rune is about: Travel, unity willpower, evolution, brotherhood.

### Should we use members of The Companions of Duty and Pascal Laguarde to help us activate the umbilicus?

Sarah does a sigil for Astramance for a worst case scenario (Gives a background to Astramance about the omphalos and The Companions of Duty) with the following questions:

* Q: What would happen if we inform The Companions of Duty in the activation of the umbilicus? Rolls a successful contract

* A: they may think we’re insane - raving mad. In the long run might have a sense of betrayal or we may feel like something was not told to us. This might bruise our egos.

Rolls another successful contract for the second question:

* Q: What would happen if we include Pascal Laguarde?

* A: He will report his theoretical findings to his arcana (Minor arcana of the coin) - we might find that our values and positions don’t align with that arcana.

### Getting The Companions of Duty on board

Sarah, Gilbert and Fabien drive to The Companions of Duty to pay them a visit. We head downstairs into a private area to chat. We speak to Eric he says The Companions of Duty have been involved in safe-guarding knowledge on legendary creatures. Sarah explains we might be able to tell them some details about forest creatures. Talks about activating the omphalos and that it might be magical and that some humans would be necessary. We make an oath to share some of the secret information. Sarah tells him: We have reason to believe that we would be able to be in contact with the magical creatures. The oath will be bound by a form of magic - this isn't actually true but we are attempting to make them believe it is. Trickery: show Gilbert's metamorph. Only the two older members (Matthieu and Dominico and his sister) will come along; the two young ones are not masters. Dominico's sister is called Myrtille and she is a little older - takes her half an hour to get there. She agrees to entering into the oath. Gilbert removes his pendant and his metamorph appears. It's soft, pretty and glows. It's also sweet, innocent and infantile. It looks like it needs protection and everyone wants to help out. The Companions of Duty are very excited because they think we are one of the forest creatures. We ask them to bring the rituals and some fire that has been burning for over 12 months. Our plan would be to do this tomorrow (Sunday) - we will send the location details at 10am tomorrow or pick them up.

### Back at the Vague grounds

We go back to the vague grounds. We talk to Odorio and get her to get some mistletoe berries. We already have rain water from last time. Ahun asks us if we are renaming this cult/pact. We will think about it.

### What if we don't involve Pascal Laguarde

Sarah summons Astramance for worst case scenario if we don’t involve Pascal Laguarde. Fails with the contract and gets a point of Kaiba. Fabien attempts to summon Astramance and asks the same question. Answer: We will not be able to use him as a contact in the future. If he does realise then it might impact our relationship with the whole Minor arcana of the coin. She cannot see anything drastic. The problem with that is that we never know who will trust us less in the future. If someone wants to check our trustworthiness it may affect us.

### Meetup with Pascal Laguarde

We will question Pascal and the nature of his Minor Arcana. We go to him. He invites us in. He enquires as to our progress with activating the omphalos. We tell him that we think we know how to activate it but have some concerns and he agrees that it will open a web of politics within the arcanas. We ask about the Minor arcana of the coin he is part of. He tells us they aim to understand how the world works. They are keen to find out how the omphalos works. Their values are based on order and improving everything by understanding how things works.

### Entering into a Ka-pact with Pascal.

He agrees to not inform the Synarchy of the location of the umbilicus. He will pass on the theoretical knowledge of the umbilicus. The information that he gains can be passed on but not the location of the umbilicus. He will witness but promise not to try find it or the people involved. This protects him from pressure on being involved with the actual umbilicus. We each feel a tug on our pentacle as the pact is made. If you go back on your word it damages your pentacle. We tell him we will be in touch tomorrow to activate it.

We go to the river to summon “The red swirl upon the murky waters”: Fabien draws a sigil with blood. The blood runs into the water and she appears. She runs through Fabien and a point of Kaiba disappears. Gilbert does the sigil and is successful in his contract too and removes a point of Kaiba.

## FEB 22nd 2015 Sunday

### Naming our pact.

“The Fountain” - this will be the first nexus we find. In this location we can force a nexus and thus control the fields. It will feed the network of Ley Lines and akashas that are anchored to the Ley Lines.

We have picked up Pascal Laguarde, The Companions of Duty. Odorio is there and has the mistletoe berries. The fire from The Companions of Duty that has been burning for over 12 months is here. We have 4 humans for todays nexus activation: Johanne, Matthieu, Dominico and Myrtille. Ahun will do the ritual and we have a bottle of rainwater from previously.

### Activating the umbilicus

Ahun starts the ritual:

* Crushes the berries, mixed with water, boils it over the fire.
* Passes around and we breathe in the vapours

We can’t feel anything but we feel connected to the fields like we’re in Ka-sight. We are in a clearing in the forest next to the small camp. We notice that the bohemian camp grounds are luminous and bright. We can feel all the fields being connected to us. Odorio waves his magic; like he’s sucking on a straw and pulling the fields into him, following invisible paths, they become intertwined and the fields get brighter and brighter and condense into a rolling mass of stabilized energy. We feel part of The Fountain. There’s a brotherly feeling amongst everyone there like we’re connected.

According to Ahun this is a very small nexus. If you have at least 5 members of The Fountain in the area it will lower the difficulty of any magical endeavour by one level. The more people the better or the lower the difficulty. Every person after 5 will reduce it by 1 point per person. So the original 5 + 17 people to be able to do anything.

### Using the nexus to magical purposes

We use elements to add characteristics to our alchemy instruments. Fabien his crucible, Gilbert his bellows, Sarah her Athenor.

### The green man

We glimpse a green man just outside of the circle; fleeting image. The others in the group don’t see it just us. They ask what we saw.

Green man has appeared three times:

1. Once when reminiscing when summoned gyran 21st Jan ; linked in Hive Mind
2. Spirit of the pack call Feb 10th; determining how we were linked
3. Today;

We know nothing yet about the green man.

Late Sunday evening...

### Alexi becomes part of The Fountain

Alexi had a day off on Sunday - but by the end of Sunday he’s back out of the caravan enquiring about what happened. We let him know what happened. Alexi is not connected to the fountain because he wasn’t there. We will quickly reactivate it for Alexi, since the humans are still around. Anyone who breathes in the vapours becomes part of The Fountain. Alexi is now one.

Alexi receives a message Jaqueline about a foci it happens to be a Nephilim spellcasting spell: The agility of the Just. Element: Water;  Analogy: speed. Agility is chained in. Use it on a body to reorganise their muscle mass and give then one extra agility level. I modify “the target” agility speed.

### Alexi creates spider feet

Alexi uses the Nexus to to create spider feet with Black-moon element. He discovers that it would be very easy to make a mistake and contaminate The Fountain - has to be careful to not contaminate us.

Fabien and Sarah head down to the river to call upon the Red Swirl to remove points of Kaiba. Fabien succeeds and 1 Kaiba point disappears.

## 23 FEB 2015 Monday

Sarah asks Fabien for help making a forge as it is now a profane skill. Doesn’t happen today as the dice rolls are not with Sarah.

### Send the stasis we have collected to James

Alexi calls James to tell him we can send the stasis. He sends it express. Alexi also wants help with a call of the torturer if James can help - James gives him one called the Muddy choke of despair. Enquires about Cybele: It's going to take a long time for her to be back to normal.

### Alexi asks James about sublimation:

The origin of Ka is Prime Ethers flying from space. They bounce from planets and reach earth as fields. Crystalisation can occur like sun-Ka in humans. Primes wants to reorganise back into one field. Black-moon is more difficult. The Prime Ethers touch the sun becomes polarised and becomes sun ethers. When that ether touches a planet then only one element comes back. The Black-moon is a Prime Ether that is polarised differently. Selenims repolarise sun-Ka into Black-moon-Ka; he does not know how. He believes there are 3 types: sun-Ka, Black-moon-Ka and orichacum-Ka. He believes they are more than polarising and filtering called principles - creative and destructive principles; sun-Ka is a positive potential and orichacum-Ka is the opposite cancelling out. Black-moon-Ka might be inert or neutral. All of this is quite theoretical. If sun-Ka and Prime Ether hit the earth at the same time turns into a chromatic field. Arcana of the Wheel of Fortune (interested in the nature of magic and how it works) and the Arcana of the star (They believe Kaim came from space - they are dreamers, a lot thought they were idiots until recently but recent data shows that they might be right) might know more.

### Fabien researches map making of structures

Fabien researches alchemy for making maps of structures around us. After a morning of research Fabien finds an earth alchemy recipe called The Blueprint (Duration: Instantaneous and permanent; Description: When placed in contact with a wall or floor for a brief instant, these golf-sized clear amber will fill with an etched 3D plan of the building they have touched. Quite useful to detect hidden compartments or find the way back, these lose their usefulness in larger buildings as the whole building will be engraved, details becoming more and more minute as the building is big.)

Sarah does a spell in the nexus to create an open-grave receptacle to fill with water from the river; Sarah puts on lipstick then draws a sigil with lipstick on a pebble and puts in in the water for the Red Swirl. Sarah meets her and removes a point of Kaiba. Fabien rolls a successful contract and that removes a point of kaiba.

## 24 FEB 2015 Tuesday

### Futhark spell: Reading on a person

Alexi contacts Jaqueline, who has deciphered a Futhark spell. Divination spell: Reading on a person.

### Sarah Makes and activates her Forge

Sarah makes a forge and activates it in the Nexus.

### Fabien makes a habitus

Fabien makes a habitus for the Red Swirl, uses fire characteristic, Skill - expert as its neutral, slightly difficult and succeeds with the roll. Fabien summons her and she notices the habitus and she’s touched.

Sarah does the sigil for the Red Swirl as well and rolls a 20 and gets 2 allied points and loses 2 points of Kaiba.

## 25 FEB 2015 Wednesday

Fabien does Earth Alchemy to make a few different things for mapping, etc. Takes all day.

Sarah uses a leather expert in the camp to help with making a bellows. Is successful in making it. She activates it by being in the nexus.

Alexi spends the day relaxing.

## 26 FEB 2015 Thursday

Alexi contacts Jaqueline, she has deciphered a Selenim foci.

Sarah does Alchemy all day

Fabien summons the Red Swirl. Successful contract and 1 less point of Kaiba.