Escobar's Inner Astral

# Tuesday, 10 March 2015 8pm

### Tropical Palace in Mexico

Brought to a beautiful tropical palace. Enter through a fortified gate, there are heavily armed people. There is tension in the air and a feeling that violence could happen very very quickly. There is a huge amount of black moon coming from this house. Suspect very powerful selenim in this house.

Welcomed by a butler. An older 60 yo man from golf course arrives, he goes into Ka-sight. He introduces himself has Mic. Asks who of us are selenim. Alexi announced he is a selenim. Mic clicks his finger and a Peruvian woman “Rigoberta” arrives - she is of typical appearance . She shows us to our rooms while Mic chats to Alexi. We keep crossing paths with heavily armed guards. Looks like wealthy resort but with lots of guards.

### Escobar gets a call from Belwinda

Once in the room, Escobar gets a call from Belwinda his cousin's sister. Rigoberta is still around.

She asks if he has had any contact from Kiwano? Escobar reassures her that he will help. Kiwano and Escobar were meant to meet in the astral plane but didn’t. Kiwano has come back from the planes so unsure where he is. We (Io, Sarah, Fabien, Gilbert) have a moment of drowsiness, then suddenly waking up. Escobar however is standing. Apparently we were asleep for 5 minutes.  Rigoberta left while we were asleep.

Escobar explains: he apologises and says he didn’t know that was going to happen. The woman that was here before put us to sleep, she is a bohemian - she recognised Escobar as a bohemian. She realised the conversation was important so she put us to sleep to hide the conversation as it may have had sensitive information. Rigoberta is a manush.

### Kiwano may be stuck in the Inner astral plane as part of an initiation

Conversation with Belwinda was very distressed. Escobar thinks Kiwano is stuck in the Inner astral plane. See the link for more info. They (other members of the caravan) tried to probe Kiwano out of the astral plane but they failed. He got the distinct impression that it is an initiation type thing. You must do an initiation to reach your full bohemian potential. To reach Aegypta. Sarah asks: Can a Nephilim enter the astral plane of their simulacrum? Escobar thinks we should all go find Kiwano and he’s not sure if we can all go into the astral planes but thinks we should try investigate. Bohemians can only astral travel through dreams. Escobar thinks maybe we can Hive Mind and all go…Io: first time she has heard of inner astral and she would love to tag along and see what its about. Inner astral is more like an antiterre. Feels like a nightmare. Scary for both Kiwano and Escobar in their dreams. Rigoberta has had this vision that we all need to go together. Nephilims cannot dream because they don’t have Sun-Ka. So can’t go into an astral plane. Hive Mind may work.

Controlling the Sun-Ka is the way to Agartha - according to Nephilim.

### Predict what could happen if we go into the Inner astral plane

Sarah will contact Astramance - predictor to see what could happen going to the Inner astral plane in the Hive Mind. Got a 20 with the contract. Can do this in the Hive Mind. No harm will come to our bodies, where they are. The conditions of an antiterre will apply to our roles. The bad consequences will apply. Penalties to rolls of magic will apply.

### Hive Mind to enter the Inner astral plane

Fabien does sigil for Hive Mind - contract 20 success. Escobar rolls dice but its an 11 and Escobar can touch a golden veil in a grassy meadow. But he rolls again and we all feels like the world tilts and then back again - we all lose 1 point of health. The sky is grey, looks like a scottish moor. Close to us is a small village with very boring houses… houses are built post war - cubes of concrete. Looks abandoned and gloomy. This is where Escobar and Kiwano would take refuge together. There is a feeling of unease.

### Following Sun-Ka takes us into a construct where Kiwano is 16

This is where Escobar would expect to find Kiwano but he is not here. We decide to have a look around. Gilbert slips into Ka-sight. Gilbert can see that everything is all still elemental Ka but its sluggish but they are not as weird and crystalised like mexico. It feels like any akasha. There is a slight dusting of Sun-Ka going into the room and a trail leading out. We decide to follow the Sun-Ka. Escobar uses harmony. He sees something different on the horizon - like a beacon of Sun-Ka. The Sun-Ka trail is not going towards the beacon. We decide to follow the Sun-Ka trail. The village looks like a bohemians nightmare - bland and sedentary. Travel more into the moor. It’s a dreamscape so suddenly we’re in a city with tall buildings - completely silent and oppressive. Suddenly hear a plop of something falling in water. And then thrashing into water… its the only sound we have heard for the whole time in here. Looks like a city with an ancient history like European city. There's a child swimming in the water pulling himself up on the bank out of the water - he jumped off a boat in the river. It’s like a 16 yo version of Kiwano. This is either a construct from Escobar or Kiwano.

### Recognise this construct is in Prague

This is a vision/recognise this as Prague. Escobar goes to talk to the child in bohemian language-sephora. He is a 16 year old doing his first initiation. As soon as Escobar starts talking to him everything comes alive, the city is in full colour with people and looks like Prague.

### Kiwano does bohemian divination - templars beating up a kabbalist

Kiwano wants to do divination with pebbles - looks at them and then almost faints and catches himself and says that was really intense - he had a huge vision - he saw a stick smash a six pointed star between two columns. The six pointed star is star of david. Escobar does a roll of intellect for secret history. Symbol of the jewish kabbala - the stick is the arcana of the club - templars. Then the 2 columns are the columns in a jewish synagogue tabernacle. Divination - bohemian example. Fabien does a roll of deduction: rolls 18. Templars are beating up a jewish kabbalist in a synagogue.

### Pinkas Synogogue - dying Rabbi

We go to the Pinkas synogogue, and rush towards it. Sarah cast a sensing spell for orichalcum and was successful - in the temple there is a small amount - like a ring. Fabien makes a railing into a sword. Escobar uses a urban survival skill to find a discreet way into the temple. We follow Escobar into the temple. See a handful of thugs leaving the temple from main door - leaving behind a Rabbi on the floor covered in blood. The Rabbi has been stabbed in the gut. The Rabbi does not want us to use magic to heal him. He thinks god will do it. The templars wanted information and he told them - we need to save someone that lives on 7 golden lane Prague. They are going there… we google the address. It is in the Prague castle.

### 7 Golden Lane - Whats my name (BITCH)?

We head there but this street is closed for renovations. Kiwano wiggles his way through the hoarding but then one of the hoardings falls and makes a loud noise, we follow into golden lane. People are all looking at us. We will be seen. Sarah does sigil for hide it. Escobar sees disturbing harmony down the lane. Sarah fails with the contract. Gilbert tries the contract as succeeds. The area becomes protected and hidden. We can hear a commotion down the lane. We step through the hoarding. We can see the door at number 7 is open and we can hear screaming. As we arrive next to the door we hear a deep voice saying whats my name and a male voice shriek that stops suddenly. Two templars run past us escaping the place. Two templars are left in number in 7. Kiwano steps in. we all go in. Fabien goes in first 2 nen standing 2 on the floor. One of them has a slashed wrist and blood pouring out in a pool of blood. There is a ginormous man made of dirt that grabs Fabien and starts shaking him and asks what is my name. He flings Fabien is thrown across the room - 1 point of damage. The mud man attacks one of the templars and kills him by shaking him to death, the other templar runs out and the mud man chases him. Fabien goes into Ka-sight - definitely an alchemist's lab. Sarah dashes down the street after him but she doesn’t keep up. There is a book in the lab. It has a bookmark with the following pattern......Insert here.... Io says its a basic thing about magic but she just can’t put her finger on it. Sarah rolls a dice and its a 19 hear astramance say its the tree of life. Kabbala. The kabbala becoming the best you can be - once explored all the branches of the tree of life then reached agartha. Confusing why does an alchemist have a kabbala symbol. Do a deduction roll - the Nephilim in question Eliyakim - very likely the dead simulacrum belonged to him. We can hear sirens of police around the palace. We are living through this memory of Kiwano - we need to live through this so we can find him. There is some significance to the alchemist. We decide to get out of there….

We discreetly walk away and finish the contracts with kabbala creatures. Kiwano knew a lot of information about magic as an adult but at 16 he knew nothing and this event must have triggered him to learn more about it.

### Back to the Synogogue - We are implicated in the Rabbi's murder

Why the Rabbi, why the alchemist etc… initiation normally doesn’t involve deaths etc. Why were templars there. Rabbi was a disciple of kabbala. There’s something about the golem and they are associated with the jewish culture. What were the templars after? Make our way back to the temple. Check on the Rabbi… but when we get there the police are there. We hide in the bushes, instinct from Escobar . The police are chatting to a young Rabbi. There are a lot of curious onlookers. Gilbert is going to cast a spell to hear. They young Rabbi implicates us in the death of the old Rabbi.

### Young Rabbi tells us about "The Circle" - kabbalistic mysticism.

We all walk into the synagogue and we go in. The young Rabbi is praying and crying, the body is covered in cloth still. The young Rabbi is touched by Escobar on his shoulder - Escobar starts telling him a story and tells the real story and the young Rabbi is completely entranced and at the end of the story he realises that's not what he thought and that he is sorry for getting us into trouble with the police. We ask what he knows and why we were sent to no.7. He tells us that his master was a student of the kabbala - he was starting to teach him the beginnings of the kabbala - jewish mysticism rather than magic. Loosely its related but he feels like his master was part of a circle of members. He doesn’t know other members, but they were guardians. Suddenly a little boy knocks on the door. He gives us a card. Meet me tonight at the jewish cemetery. The card is of a skeleton: It's the 13th tarrot card - Selenim card/black-moon.

### Sarah goes looking for the Golem - didn't find him

Sarah heads to the old new synagogue as she thinks the golem will be in the attic. She thinks she knows the name of the golem. Does a hide it kabbala spell to hide the area. Sarah climbs on Gilbert's shoulder and up the ladder to the attic. Gilbert makes a hole in the door and heads in and goes into Ka-sight. There’s a lot of dust. It is not magical dust.

### We leave the Astral plane to rest

At this point Escobar took us out of the Inner astral plane by waking up - we wake up really tired.

## Tuesday, 10th March 2015 11:50pm

### Alexi fills us in on what her learned from Mic

Alexi tells us:

* Mic is a selenim of the aztec age. The god of warriors, death and battles. He is a drug and prostitute lord.
* There are 4 people we need to know: They were gods of the aztec world.
	1. Mais - aztec name: goddess of women who died giving birth - which is as honorable as a man dying in war. (sounds like what El Mariposa was saying)
	2. Xochipilli ”soshipichli - pronounce” - the flower prince. God of male prostitutes, butterflies. aKa Chin. If anyone was able to make a new selenim would be him.
	3. Xochiquetzal - worked for Mic, she was part of the 4 people. Goddess of female prostitutes, she really wanted to be like her older brother chin. Was a newborn selenim 1500 years ago. Recently poached by Anatoli
	4. Tlaloc - Nephilim that has been invited into the selenim/aztec pantheon - really rare as they hate Nephilim with reason - so this is very unusual. God of the rain - really powerful - same as Mais.

* Mais and Chin were thick as thieves. They made the Golden quipu - magical thing/artifact - bunch of them on the island of dolls and around the place. Only they know what they are and how to use them.
* Anatoli is a Russian selenim. He is here to look for weapons from the aztec gods. Something happened in Russia called the TungusKa that Anatoli might be responsible for?. Anatoli stumbles onto Golden quipu. He creates a book to make a trap for El Mariposa (who is probably Chin); but instead Alexi turns up. Is Alexi the grandson of Chin? Chin was powerful enough to have a child.
* Mic is trying to slow down Anatoli.
* Xochiquetzal Is the only one still in the area.
* Xochiquetzal and Tlaloc Are bound by fulgurance.
* Tlaloc would know where to find Mais and Chin

Escobar asks Rigoberta some questions, she is there keeping an eye on powerful people. They exchange numbers.

### We are having breakfast with Mic and his family.

We are asking some questions

* Golden quipu might be a way of communicating information made into Sun-Ka.
* Xochiquetzal is currently known as Gabriella Bayardo

Also we think that Xochiquetzal must have been working with Anatoli to create the folder of notes that was sent to the author of the book - that Fabien did a roll of deduction on.

Alexi want to do the Blue flames of the last moment to see if Tlaloc is still around. The birds evaporate gently - so that tells us he is alive but not in a stasis.

Escobar calls Belwinda - Kiwano has not woken up but he more alert.
Gabriella runs the Casa Xochiquetzal. Retirement home for retired prostitutes -

### Going back into the astral - worst possible luck!

Hive Mind - Fabien succeeds with a 20 and gives the Hive Mind the ability to tap into Fabien’s mind anytime- sometimes tied up so can’t draw a sigil. She claims she will not abuse the privilege. Fabien agrees and gains 5 allied points. Escobar rolls a 1 to get back into the astral plane - this would mean not able to try again until Saturday. Rigoberta suggests that she could invite other bohemians to help us. We all agree this would be good. Colourful people arrive - like a folk group playing the panflute. Rigoberta puts us to sleep except for Escobar. But we are Hive Mind attached. It takes an hour to make a colourful mandala - they give Escobar a pinch and he falls asleep. Escobar rolls again and it was another 1. Escobar loses another few points but then... he sees his mum for a brief second, Merti (Kiwano’s mum), Kiwano, his grandpa (mums side) and his cousin (Kiwano’s grandfather) , he sees a young woman she is meditating and she opens her eyes. Sees another young women walking in a meadow, cloaked and in the mist she turns and looks at him - looks like the last women. Finally he sees a man all dressed in grey who looks at him and then we're sucked into the inner astral plane and we’re back in Prague. Escobar loses 5 points for every roll he makes. These people are a generational ladder by the look of it.

### Going to the old Jewish cemetery in Prague

Back in Prague: we are going to the cemetery - same cemetery we were in with Johanne Braufmann. Some guards at the perimeter. We sneak in and we are met by a man, the undertaker who welcomes us and thanks us for coming. His name is Gargouille - a selenim. He is working with a group of jewish kabbalists - the guardians - the Rabbi that died was one of them. Another of them wants to get in touch with us. They want to check that we are worthy. There are 4 gates at the cemetery - the person we need to talk to is at the correct gate. We can go explore each one and then only step through the chosen one.

Looking at them

1. At the north - the lock is engraved with a star of david;  next to the door is the tomb of Rabbi David who was a literary Rabbi who owned a lot of important manuscripts. He was a learned person
2. On the southern door. On the lock is a seven branch candelabra - menora - next to this door is Rabbi Loew - the creator of the gollum
3. West gate: lock is a drawing of a fist with the index finger raised; next to the gate is drawn a hopscotch. 4; 3 and 3 - like the kabbala tree of life.
4. On the east gate: lock is a column on each side and it is located next to the Pinkas synogogue.

### We choose door number 3 - Rabbi tells us about making a golem

We try door number 3 - we are met by a Rabbi who congratulates us. He is one of the guardians of the Zirufim. The Zirufim are fragments of spells hidden in the torah that are used to make a golem they were working with Eliyakim, they were all trying to work out what Zirufim would get them a golem. Eliyakim was found with slit wrists as he needed to give some of his life to make the golem. This would have made him weak when the templars arrived. Two branches of magic are needed to make life - need to do kabbala and apply it to alchemy in order to do it. This allows 3rd circle and creation of life. Which is reaching the Agartha. Problem is he created a golem but was killed and therefore he might be in stasis in the golem.

### How to finish making the golem

The golem is not finished and contains Eliyakim; but only Eliyakim can finish it by telling him his name. So we need to get him out of his stasis. Eliyakim is an air Nephilim. so either need a nexus or an air plexus. Escobar has knowledge of the wheel of fortune arcana. Fabien tries a spell with 1km radius - i sense the nearest nexus power - but didn’t succeed. Rabbi tells us that the Golem can’t cross water and comes out at night. If we need to hide from it we can go on an island.

### Escobar tries divination and succeeds - we're off to the astronomical clock

Escobar does divination: and succeeded and saw the ticking hand of a clock. We decide to go to the astronomical clock and check if there’s a nexus there. When we reach it we find a side door that has Wheel of Fortune symbol on it. Escobar knocks on the door. Welcomed by a middle aged women who tells us this area is not for tourists. He admits to being a rom, lets us in and closes the door. She asks what brings us here. Normally they interact with manush. We are looking for a nearest nexus. She checks her calendar. There is a weak air plexus north of the city next to the aquarium and art gallery. There is a strong nexus appearing tonight in a church in the city. It’s in the church of the lady of the chains - this is a templar hideout. At least a dozen of them. We get there around mid-afternoon; golem will only come out at night.

### At the Church of the Lady of the Chains

Templars have made a concrete pit and a cross which they attach one of the templars to. Bait for the golem. Alexi does his spider legs and went black, IR vision and 360 vision. As night fell they could hear the golem running towards the cross. It got into the concrete and became trapped. In Ka-sight we can see he’s in the nexus. The templars are trying to pick of a stone on his head that is etched with yiddish. We can see in Ka-sight that it will take about 5 minutes to charge up enough with air to get Eliyakim out.

### Suddenly Kiwano starts a fight

* Kiwano tried to punch one but failed. He turned and pulled out his machine gun.
* Alexi tried Toxic wings of the starlit sky - but did not succeed
* Fabien through a flying needle alchemy beed and that damaged the templar with the gun. 4 damage - seriously wounded but no other templars noticed.
* Escobar tried storytelling but it failed.
* Kiwano managed to stab the wounded guy - sustained another 3 points of damage = 7
* Alexi does the Purple medusa - gets a 1. Gets Toxic wings of the starlit sky. Cloud of deadly poison fills the courtyard

Roll of intelligence - Escobar gets a 19; Kiwano runs into the church frantically - stampede towards the church door. Fabien runs to grab him, fails the first time but then grabs him and pulls him back to us. Fabien uses DoorLock to lock the door with ademantium. DoorLock may be damaged by orichalcum but its likely the templars will be cowering on the opposite side of the church. Escobar tries to tell Kiwano a story fails the first time but gets a second try. Succeeds and he tells Kiwano a story how the Black-moon is not dangerous in this case. This completely calms Kiwano down.

### Templars are trapped - Eliyakim reaches Agartha

We hear templars banging on the door as they realise they are trapped. There is a bright light inside the church - then there is a massive fight in the church with guns and last 5 minutes - then there is silence in the church. There is a knocking on the door; Fabien releases the kabbala creature. One of the templars comes out and he is the angel of Eliyakim - he floats towards the golem and as he walks the air is thick with smells of jasmine and honey. The Nephilim whispers something to the golem and the Nephilim goes into Ka-sight and he realises he created life and becomes like a god - bright light. Golem reorganises himself into the shape of a beautiful man. Body of the templar is just a body on the floor. Kiwano is fascinated by that. The creature is beautiful and Kiwano goes to chat to it and they chat like nothing happened. Chat for 15 minutes and then the creature just walks off. Kiwano comes back and he cannot wait to tell the story when he comes back to the caravan. It’s opened his mind and he is super excited. He going to go home. Kiwano says goodbye and scampers off to his boat. All of Prague just deflates and we are back in a moor. Exactly as before getting into Prague. Escobar rolls to get out the astral plane and does that successfully. We wake up. Escobar calls to check on Kiwano he is improved to a level but he's now like a zombie and not quite there. She thinks she can get him to eat but he's not quite back.

## Wednesday, 11th March 2015 midmorning

### Kiwano is still unconscious

Belwinda calls Escobar: Kiwano is a little more there but he’s still unconscious. She has tried to talk to Kiwano’s family. She tried divination. Threads and knots intertwined -

### Fabien's pentacle has been engraved

Fabien notices his pentacle has changed - the Hive Mind.

### Going back into the inner astral

* Fabien calls the Hive Mind - successful contract;
* Rigoberta puts us to sleep.
* Escobar rolls successfully and he pushes us into the astral.

### Ka-sight and Harmony as we follow the Sun-Ka trail

We are all back in the moor. Fabien tries to go into Ka-sight - rolls a 4. Feels like an antiterre, there’s a glow in the distance (beacon?) and there is still a trail of Sun-Ka. We decide to go to the beacon - but we walk that way and it doesn’t seem any closer. When we look at it in Ka-sight again, we notice we are going to cross another trail of Sun-Ka. Unsure if that is the same path as before or a new one. Escobar goes to do harmony - He is sure these are Kiwano’s tracks. Alexi sees fuzzy footsteps when he looks in Ka-sight. We decide to follow the trail.

### We follow the trail to Belwinda's caravan

After half an hour we reach a caravan. There’s a dozen bohemian vehicles and a few people milling about. A roll of intelligence tells Escobar its Belwinda’s caravan, he remembers it from the wedding. Escobar asks someone? about Kiwano - he's likely visiting Belwinda. He goes to her caravan and knocks and a young version of Belwinda arrives - and behind her is Kiwano. Kiwano says he remembers us from Prague 3 years ago.

### Esmeralda is missing

We “meet” Belwinda - a manush. She is worried because Esmeralda has gone missing - She’s a hugely important nephilim - she is one of the big 5 alchemists - brought it to the world in year 1000. They are called The Glorious Alloy. 5 Nephilim's one for each element. Escobar knows that those nephilims are different to the others and were born in metal rich areas and the nexus where they were born was a cocoon of minerals - connected to the material world. Esmeralda was the wife of Akhenaten - who created the Major Arcana. He gave the bohemians their purpose, their abilities and he is the messiah of the nephilims. Esmeralda has been living with Belwindas caravan for a while now but suddenly she stopped appearing a few days ago. She’s an introvert, recluse. We are going to go looking for her. Io is excited. Meeting one of these 5 is the only way to go to the 3rd circle of alchemy. Alexi does a shape in the core and rolls successfully - can see two things - Escobar and Kiwano have the same rune in their core. Manaz. Everyone gets it. It is night-time and Belwinda is encouraging us to go check out Esmeralda's caravan. We knock on the door but no reply, all the windows are drawn. Alexi uses infrared eyes but there is no heat signature in the caravan. We debate for a while whether to use blue fireflies or tracking kabbala creature to find Esmeralda but eventually decide to just go into the caravan. Cliche looking caravan: classic bohemian, beautifully embroided velvets and silks; heavy spicy smell, fairly tidy. There is a note on the bed.. It says:

### Esmeralda's note:

<<

My dear companions no one can escape their fate, if it is written in the stars, the club struck me again and I will not cry for them anymore. If I don't strike back soon I will be an empty vessel lost on a sea of tears, and so I must resume my lonely wanderings, hoping that this won't be the last leg of my travels.

>>

Kiwano searches the caravan, rolls of intelligence rolled:

3 clues in the caravan: (painting above the bed and in the bin two scraps of paper)

1. We notice a painting above the bed: classic alchemy style: A woman standing naked in a cup and crying tears made of emeralds and above her is a sun with drops falling from it. {we deduce: Cup symbolises the water element - so she’s probably a hydrim.}
2. One of the scraps of paper: Tomorrows date: "Thurs 12/3/15", "Roissy" and "7.24am" {Roissy is in reference to the airport}
3. 2nd scrap of paper written in french: "Louis the 13th: A la fountaine au roi" {Street in Paris in the neibourhood of Belville. North African immigrants live in this area}

* Alexi in the meantime has been playing his flute do do A "Call of the scholar": calls Esmeralda's name: little blue fireflies appear but then disappear - this means either not in a stasis or has become a selenim.
* Gilbert rolls on secret history but not good enough to get any clues.In Ka-sight looks like magic was done here. Escobar can see elemental magic was done here.
* Kiwano called the airport and confirmed there is plane arriving from Bangkok at that time.
* Fabien does a deduction there is a Hubert Louis lives on 13 Fountaine au Roi.

The caravan is just outside of Paris so we decide to drive to the above address:

### We go to Paris to 13 Fountaine Au Roi and set off the alarm!!!

We arrive in Paris. It’s been a long drive. We arrive at 13 Fountaine au Roi. 5 level building. Mr Louis lives in apartment 5A. We buzz but nobody answers. Kiwano sets off the alarm by trying to force the door. Alexi opens the door with a "key finger" and the alarm stopped.

### Fight scene - someone is stabbed and dying

As we walk up the stairs we hear glass breaking - we hear unhappy moaning.

* The door is open and a dagger is thrown at Alexi, he tries to dodge but fails - 6 points of damage.
* Kiwano holds onto Alexi, starts singing while holding the wound; then pulls the dagger out and there's no bleeding and after 5 minutes of singing the wound is gone and Alexi now has the dagger.
* Escobar tells a story to make the person believe anything we say, he walks in the room and turns into the kitchen; there's a man who is stabbed and is dying. He died before we could do anything. (Hubert Louis)

There is an open broken window, we look out and we can see a person jumping from roof to roof, 50m away. Gilbert does a spell to shrink the guy, but he resisted the spell and kept escaping. Escobar does a urban survival skills roll and is successful and jumps from roof to roof like a bohemian monkey. The person throws a magical shawl that flies around Escobar and it disorientates him and he runs in the wrong direction. Escobar goes back to the apartment.

### Back in the apartment we find clues

We find a green dice in the dead man's pocket. On the mirror is written “my turn to play”. In the office is a pile of papers. Hubert was a Templar - his order was recently in touch with another order of Templars who did an archaeological dig and found something of importance. We also find a small notebook with a bishop icon on the top - the notes talk about an overheating alembic, a fallen one in the dark liquor, playing each in turn, the jewel of the alchemy handy work shining on the table. There is a business card for the Deauville Casino. In the bin is a plane ticket from Bangkok (scheduled to land at CDG at 7.24am).

## Wed 11th March 2015 late afternoon:

Still in the inner Astral.

Alexi and Gilbert have things to do…. So Just Fabien and Escobar; Kiwano and Io are with us.

### Looks like Esmeralda killed Hubert Louis

The shawl smells like Esmeralda’s caravan so it’s hers unless someone stole it but it’s probably hers. The dead person was Hubert Louis. His face was burned and eyes were gouged out. Io does a Ka-sight and he can tell its magical burns. He was not magical but killed by magic. We compare the writing on the mirror to her note. Role of deduction by Fabien is a 4 and not enough to compare. Kiwano can confirm that it is the same writing. Kiwano thinks this is unusual as Esmeralda is not normally violent. Could it be another alchemist? Fabien goes into Ka-sight and looks around the room - he was not a magical creature, killed by magic. Nothing else in the room that is magic or unusual. Hubert landed at 7:24 and she killed him.

### Working on the clues

* the note in the notebook:
	+ Going through the note: Kiwano suggests doing some Bohemian divination. Escobar rolls on divination: the question is: What is the jewel of the alchemy handy work shining on the table? Quite difficult roll, success. Escobar looks at the sky, and he feels magic and can feel a liquid sliding down and down and dropping and landing on a red fabric-covered table and they are forming perfect round emeralds. Someone is using alchemy to make emeralds!!
		- Esmeralda is well known as an alchemist who can make emeralds (her name means emeralds). Roll in secret history done by Escobar was not good enough. Divination again: who is the fallen one in the dark liquor referring to? Rolls a 7, not very high. All he gets is a feeling of oppression - dark, loud noises of people talking - have a feeling of powerlessness - feeling of dirt/filth. Kiwano tries the same divination question: he had a vision of dark smokey place, oppressive; poor lighting like a cave or basement; he saw a jar full of something black - oppressive feeling of being trapped and being burned alive or corrupted. Bottle got bigger and bigger and then a big white worm swirled in it; this scared him and he snapped out of the vision. Io confirms this is a homunculus. Io thinks the homunculus has been activated and using the alembic to create emeralds.
		- Escobar is going to contact is grandmother - who is a living and breathing library - and ask what she knows about Esmeralda and whether she knows if she has ever been a homunculus.
			* She never was an homunculus but she was once trapped by the Templars at the time of Akhenaten. Just as the templars were born their leader captured her. He was going to kill her but was saved because at the last moment she entranced him through a dance. He never killed her as he said there is magic to be learned there. However, she eventually escaped. As a consequence she hates the templars for that.
			* Esmeralda is a mellow nephilim but when she is angry she bites and doesn't let go.

* The notebook has a bishop symbol on the notebook - we tried to look this up with intelligence under minor arcana but failed.

* Why was Hubert in Bangkok and why was he coming back?

* The business card for the casino:
	+ We decide to go to Deauville Casino,

### At Deauvulle Casino

Fabien goes into Ka-sight: air Ka, water Ka, ocean and beach right there. Other than that everything is normal. Lots of moon Ka coming from the casino - luck and gambling oriented - especially things about cheating. Escobar goes into harmony and sees similar things.

### Bohemian Divination - what are we going to do here?

Escobar decided to do divination by the water - rolled a 20. See a roulette wheel spinning and all the numbers are either a stick or dollar coin. And when it stops, the symbol in the middle is a stick and the whole thing is turning to gold and the ball is an emerald. The casino is a money making enteprise for the Templars to finance their operations. Escobar also sees a big man smoking a cigar. He's a pleasant jovial man but the smoke from the cigar is black so the feeling is that he isn't really good; he seems semi-transparent. There is tall skinny man behind him that is not transparent. The big man is just a front, the man with the power is the nervous skinny man. The skinny, tired looking man is wearing a brooch with a maltese cross  - with a white bishop. The symbol of the Templars.

### The casino is an HQ of the templars

Escobar asks his grandmother another question. Escobar says he’s seen a painting of Esmeralda and wonders if there is a connection between her and the rose and cross. She says each of the Minor Arcana are associated with an element. Some people associate them with water and so the cup in the painting sybolised the water element that Esmeralda is already linked with as a hydrim. Templars with fire for example.

### How many steps in Kiwano's history are we doing?

Escobar does divination to know: Vision of 3 stones -

1. A chunk of clay - with some hebrew on it. We read this of the golem: "Life".
2. The second stone is a beautiful round emerald and
3. The third stone is a jagged obsidian glass/stone.

Sometimes in Kiwano’s life/past, Belwinda told him that Esmeralda went missing and this is him reliving this experience that he had.

### Going into the casino

We are perfectly dressed for this occasion to go into the casino with nothing to lose. We enter and its very Versaille in appearance. An employee takes our coats. There are beautiful archways with velvet curtains leading to a huge gaming room. This is a high class casino. It's quite busy and we can see women wearing cocktail dresses, smokers, waitresses with glasses and can hear lots of laughing etc… there's a few roulette tables and other gaming stations.

Escobar goes into harmony to look around. Can see 2 things that are out of the ordinary.

1. There is a creature of the kabbala flying around in the room and
2. one of the players is a nephilim.

### Esmeralda is in the casino

Fabien goes into Ka sight - powerful  water nephilim (hydrim) seen. She turns towards Fabien and she is wearing sunglasses. She has identified him. She turns and keeps doing her thing. As we make our way towards her she is avoiding us. She does not want to make this easy. Fabien goes into Ka sight and asks in enochian if we can talk - she says “not now”. We can see the kabbala creature jumping from shoulder to shoulder we think it might be looking for someone in the casino. Escobar sees 2 people in the crowd - the big fat one in an expensive suit has a "king of the castle" look. He's being social and is being very congenial and being everyone's best friend, the other one looks like a crack addict going through withdrawal. He's fidgety and is not as composed as the other one. They are actually 2 separate people.

Esmeralda suddenly disappears. She was there and now she's not. Fabien goes into Ka-sight to see if the kabbala creature is also there.  Escobar cannot see the kabbala creature but something has been written in enochian on the door of the elevator. Fabien goes into Ka-sight to read it.

> **"7 black next table 3rd floor"**
>
>

* We push button for elevator didn’t work.

* We got to the roulette table and play 7 black and we lose our money.
* The croupier pushed a button below the table.
* Now the button to the elevator works.

### Up the elevator to the 3rd floor

The 3rd floor is quite different. Very quiet. Short corridor with 2 doors, one is a double door with frosted glass, the other is a wooden door with a white bishop symbol on the door. Completely silent up here. Fabien looks with Ka-sight nothing seems magical. Escobar looks in harmony and can see the nephilim behind the wooden door.

### In the Templar's office with Esmeralda

We open the door and it's a messy office. Its stinks of smoke and alcohol. Shelves on the wall covered in games from around the world. Behind the desk is Esmeralda. She looks at us as she takes off the sunglasses and her eyes are made of emeralds. The kabbala creature gave the clue on how to get up here. She is here because she is looking for information. She is looking for something and we offer to help. She looks at Fabien's pentacle and sees his water element is very low. She is looking for a very pretty emerald. And its hidden somewhere. She thinks she will find clues in the office to find it. We hear the elevator arrive and the loud people go through into the other room. Esmeralda is not very patient - breaking drawers etc. one of the drawers is locked. She pulls off a glove and her nails are made of emeralds and she used it to break into the drawer - does not find the emerald.

### Esmeralda tortures the skinny guy and then suddenly she goes blind...

Walks out of the office and into the room with the other people. Hear screams and gunshots, men are screaming and gunshots and Esmeralda screaming - she screams: something about going to tell me mother fucker. She is torturing someone. We follow her into the room we see that it's a private room. People are pushed away by a vibration of sorts - can see broken bits of glass from alchemy vials. She is holding up the skinny guy and holding up by his throat with her nails dug into her skin. He looks really scared and his mouth is bubbling blood. Suddenly she collapses and she says something like “you must be kidding me”, she's crawling on the floor and she has gone blind, her eyes are milky white.

Gone is the goddess she grabs something on her thigh, throws it behind her and smoke fills the room behind her and a moment later she finds her way to the elevator in a blinded state. Our instinct is to help her and get her out of there. We go to the ground floor - people are looking at the ceiling, they heard gunshots but just staring up. People are drifting towards the door as we make a run for it out of the building. We escape.

### Fabien misfires a perceiving spell from Esmeralda onto Kiwano

We take her car and get out of there with her. She is suddenly very weak and drained. Fabien looks at her in Ka-sight. Spell for perceiving what’s happening on a magical level. Fabien rolls a 2 then a 1 then a 2. Gets a point of kaiba. Spell misfires onto Kiwano - so Fabien is trying figure out what is the reason for Kiwano's weakening instead of Esmeralda.

We realise that this is linked to magic but its not elemental magic, Fabien cannot perceive as a nephilim, but as we are hiveminded, Escobar might be able to perceive through Fabien's vision. Its like a secret and we see a vision:

> A very bright beacon of sun-Ka is reflecting on the ocean. Suddenly the beacon is sucked backward over the ocean and then over islands and then there is a dark veil and it's sucked through that and suddenly it's in front of a man that looks like a mix of Escobar and Kiwano; he looks upset. Sucked sideways and split in two. Escobar is on the right path but kiwano is on the side in a dark forest.
>
>

What makes sense is that the weakness was caused by getting separated from the angry relative. They should be together but they’re not. Feels like valid information but when Fabien returns back to his body it feels beyond comprehension - alien/foreign knowledge.

# Saturday 14th March 2015

### We decide to go into the inner astral while we’re in an akasha

who is here: SFEGKI

* We are hiveminded again and In the inner astral
* In car with Esmeralda - driving along the coast of Normandy?
* Sarah asks Esmeralda what happened to her eyes. She thinks someone is draining her pentacle by using something of hers. She is trying to stop it.
* Escobar (divination) sees little glimmers of her disappearing like a stream. Cannot follow the stream.
* She needs to go to Bangkok. She extracted that from the templar she was torturing.
* Hubert Louis came from Bangkok too.
* Esmeralda says need to summon The Crystal Net (transport device).
* Sarah asks Astramance via walkie talkie about Crystal Net. Nour el Ain can possibly help -> meditate to lower the difficulty of the roll by one level.
* Sarah is charming Esmeralda to win her over.
* What's in Bangkok -> the Emerald Tablet.
* Esmeralda can boost our level of initiated and Nour el Ain could reduce the level by 1. Draw a beautiful sigil using Aryinia (a kabbala creature) - will also reduce the level by 1.

### Fabien and Gilbert will summon Nour el Ain, Aryinia and Crystal Net

* meditate Lower 1 level of any magic. Successful.
* Fabien successful with Aryinia (with help from Nour el Ain), architectural gift and after telling her it was to help Esmeralda = successful contract
* Gilbert draws the perfect sigil (help from Aryinia - see above) for Crystal Net + Gift: ship compass with crystal glass face + help from Nour el Ain = successful contract

### Boat to Bangkok - Old Dragons

* Docked in market area - lots of noise and people. Hot, smelly etc.
* Turn around and handful of men in tuxedos. They are waiting for us. They ask us to follow them to their superiors. Go into ka-sight -> they reach for their weapons and they are heavily armed. They have small sun-ka’s. We stop seizuring and apologise for startling them.
	+ The crowd open up for them, people do not stand in their way.
	+ Street - jewelery shops and gems etc, they take us through one. Tiger skin and silks, lots of money in a cheesy way. Along the window, 7 asian men sitting in a row of 8 seats. Crisp uniformed men.
		- One of them ->: "Thank you for coming, we will not keep you long. We heard of our coming and we believe you are here to attack a competing group. This group is a powerful and violent. Their symbol is the club". they want them gone but they are not possible to do that themselves so they are aligning with us.
		- They are the Old Dragons. Io likes the old names. Io asks what they can tell us. The people we are looking for, when they wanted to have a foothold in the place, used a man.
			* They then turned this man into an addict (drug/heroin). They can take us to the man. The man had a business that they used as a HQ.

### Go to man suggested by old dragons (Paco)

* They take us to a little punt boat, a channel, navigate out of Bangkok proper to the countryside - a small village.
* The addict’s wife took him back into the village in the country.
* He’s in poor shape. Daughter whores herself out to pay for her fathers addiction.

* We are thinking os summoning a kabbala creature “Disgust” thorns of self hate to stop the addiction. Then maybe bring him into our hivemind so we can get the information we need on the club.
* We could use the needles to make a sigil. Gilbert summons and convinces the misery thirsty bitch to make him hate his addiction.
* We explain all this to his wife…

next time we come back in 24 hours and hivemind when hes a little more sober so we can get all the information we require.

## 14 March 2019 Continued

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Date of session: 28/06/19

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### The shack outside of Bangkok

The addict in the shack where we left off at the end of the last session is better - we cured his addiction - now we need to find out about the circumstances that lead to him becoming an addict and being ejected from his premises
The man’s name is Paco

F: We are going to ask a few questions: Can you tell us about the people you took over your establishment?
P: They are European - they arrived in Bangkok and didn’t know anyone. They could speak French - as could we (Paco and his wife both speak French) - so we offered for them to base themselves in our....establishment.  they got me hooked on crack then kicked us out on the street
F: What was your establishment?
P:
* **Ground:**  Massage
* **Upstairs:** Bordello
* **Downstairs:** Casino

S: What were they using the establishment for?
P: Gambling - their casino was very popular and it was very profitable for them.   There are people who are the head of the group - game addicts - who will gamble on anything.   There are other tables where people play but the leaders stay on the one table and never leave.   There is a machine on that table that stays there on the table.   Whatever they are playing the machine needs to be there  It looks like a glass jar with some black things in it and glass pipes pipes coming off it.  There is a big fleshy worm squirming inside which is creepy.

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Sounds like a homunculus attached to an alembic?

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You can bring any game to them addicts and they will always say yes to playing it.
They always respect the rules and never cheat - no-one can cheat or they will kill you.
you bring the stakes to the table and they will match it.

S:  Can we bet to get the club back.
P: Yes - need something of equal value

S: Who is protecting the place
P: There are guards everywhere lineing the walls

G: How do we get in
P:  We look like tourists so we can probably just walk in.

S: What kind of prostitutes? - Sarah is thinking that she pretend to be a hooker
P: All Thai
#### Figuring out what we know:

* Fabien uses deduction (rolls a 1 - wakes up in Mexico - *in shadow* - Rigoberta sings hime to sleep) - this breaks the Hive mind however we all stay in the inner astral while Fabien disappears (This should not be possible....)
* Alexi rolled on conjuring: Called ‘use of the scholar’ - Works like Fabien's deduction and allows us to piece together what we collectively know. Can ask three questions. Can only assimilate the information that the conjurer already has (or the collection of minds that are connected)

### What do we know about Esmeralda? (Question 1)

* She is one of the 5 kaims?or alchemists? who were born in a mineral cocoon - one for each element
* She was the water one - cocoon is made of emerald
* She was trapped in it, she was freed - she was born blind.   She could feel the fields but couldn’t see them - orichalcum - contaminated fields - emeralds fell from her eyes.
* The fragments of her cocoon (which are called the emerald tablets) are rich in Ka and are good for using as a substrate for magic.  Whenever someone finds one and uses it for magic it drains power from Esmerelda's pentacle.  This causes Esmeralda to become powerless and blind.
* Someone from the Templars found an Emerald Tablet, linked it to an alembic and a homunculus.
* They use the excitement of the gambling game to activate the alembic which, in turn, produces perfect pieces of emerald which are worth a lot of money.
* The five chaims who were born in the mineral cocoons are connected to the earth - as opposed to the others who were purely elemental.   This allowed them to become the five leaders of the elemental branches of alchemy
* If you ever want to be a third circle alchemist, you need to find one of those five.
* This is why the use of an alembic is important...
* Water and emeralds are linked in the analogical table

### Fabien recalls what Kiwano discovered about Esmerlda through divination

* A dark smokey place, really oppressive, poor lighting like a cave or a basement
* There was a jar (an alembic) full of something black.  There was an oppressive feeling of being trapped and of being burned alive or corrupted
* The bottle got bigger and bigger and then a big white worm swirled in it

This last vision scared Kiwano and he snapped out of the vision

### Io confirmed that this is a homunculus

thinks that it has been activated and the alembic is being used to create emeralds.  In making the emeralds the power of the nephilim in the homunculus is being drained.

A: Are water and emeralds linked in the anological table - yes

S: Asks Io - How does a homunculus work:

* Use a nephilim’s stasis and force the nephilim to incarnate in a barely living thing.
* Once they are trapped in there you can use them to draw power and make things
* In the process the nephilim get enkaibated because the creature the nephilim is in has no Sun-ka and is therefore not protected from enkaibation
* A homunculus therefore, very quickly becomes enkaibated and evapourates

G: Asks E why we are still in the inner astral
E: the source of the magic that is keeping us there cannot be revealed

A: We should bet the gamblers and if they lose they will give back the fragment
G: If we kill creature in the alembic will it kill the nephilim too

Yes - unless:
* you have nephilims from the temperance arcana doing it very carefully to cleanse the nephilim of enkaiba and put it in a new simulacrum in a controlled environment OR
* you are very very lucky and you happen to have an unconscious body handy that a weakened enkaibated nephilim can jump into (this was where Odorio came from)

S: Calls astramance and asks about creatures that can increase our luck

Astramance: this is a sun-ka thing.
### Futhark stuff (Question 2)

#### Futhark Suffusing:

* If you use the runes you use some of YOUR Sun-Ka to affect THEIR Sun-Ka
* The more points you invest the more points your target gets
* Investing 1 point in a spell is one level of difficulty
* If you are successful in suffusing the rune then for the same number of hours as points of Sun-Ka you used you will have to subtract that number of points from your rolls
	+ if you attempt to suffuse a rune onto someone and invest 3 points of Sun-Ka in doing so then it will make that spell 3 levels of difficulty harder
	+ if you are successful then for 3 hours afterward your will need to subtract 3 points from all of their roles
* You have 10 points of Sun-Ka per point of initiated.
* If you use more than 5 points of Sun-Ka in any one hit then you become lethargic

#### To infuse (on yourself) or suffuse (on someone else) a rune:

* Decide what you want to achieve (e.g. I want to remember (infuse) or I want you to remember (suffuse)
* Decide how many Sun-Ka points you want to invest
* Make a roll to test their infusing or suffusing skill (as appropriate) with a level of difficulty equivalent to the number of points invested
* If the roll is successful then that number of points is added to the next roll of memory the target makes
* The person who is infusing or suffusing the rune then has that number of points deducted from any roll for the equivalent number of hours after the use of the rune.

### Sarah to gamble, others to suffuse

We decide that Sarah will attempt to gamble with the people at the table and the others will suffuse Jera onto her to enhance her luck

Escobar takes us out of the inner astral to get Fabien; Fabien suffuses Sarah with Jera for +2 points; Escobar suffuses Sarah with Jera for +1 point; Gilbert suffuses Sarah with Jera for +1 point

**Total increase in points is +4**
### Sarah consults with Astramance

The worst thing that could happen if we go into the casino is that we all wake up from the inner astral
### In pursuit of the emerald tablet

We all travel back to Bangkok and go to the 'establishment' which is on Pichuri(?) Rd

On the first level is a long corridor with wire mesh down both sides, behind which are lots of boys and girls wtih numbers painted on them.   At the end of the corridor is a door leading down to the basement.  There is a goon in the way who is taking up the whole space of the door.

Alexi goes up to the goon and says they want play. The goon moves aside

Downstairs is very claustrophobic and the room is dark and smokey.   There are armed guys standing against the wall.  There are a few tables at which people are playing games.
The lights  are subdued.   There is a bar on one side of the room and a bigger table on the other side at which are sitting 4 men looking very haggard, as though life has been unkind to them.   One of the men is wearing the same kind of uniform as the people who originally directed us to the shack outside of Bangkok.

On the table is the black jar (alembic) with the emerald tablet fragment in the bottom of it.

Escobar does harmony to look for any magic - unsuccessful

Sarah cast spell - I sense orichalcum

There is orichalcum in the building which is lowering the fields - any use of magic in this room will be two levels harder
Sarah uses spell to turn martini olives into cockroaches

I modify the olives - insects - cockroaches
A recipient of the dirty martini freaks out - creating a distraction

Fabien goes into Ka-Sight:

There is something rich in water Ka
There is a really enkaibated nephilim in the jar
There is orichalcum in the walls keeping the fields at bay
The alembic is not in use at the moment
The players on the table have a fairly high sun core
They are the only ones with a strong sun core in the room
### Esmeralda bets herself for the homunculus

Sarah sits down

* challenges them to a best of 3 games of Baccarat
* proposes that they bet the emerald shard in the alembic
* this gives away the fact that Sarah is a nephilim
* they tell her that the homunculus is dying.   They will bet the emerald but, if Sarah loses, she will need to replace the homunculus
* Esmeralda steps in and volunteers to replace the homunculus if Sarah loses

### Alexi places his first curse

Alexi identifies the three men who will play against Sarah and curses them

* They will have 4 points deducted from their rolls
* If they roll 3 levels under the level of difficulty of the actions they are attempting, they will become undead..

### Sarah wins

Sarah wins and Alexi ends up with an undead templar!

* This is vaguely problematic as one cannot take anything out of the inner astral but Alexi can't actually get rid of the templar due to the curse

They get the Emerald fragment out of the jar and goes to give it to Sarah
Esmeralda grabs it and smashes it then she thanks us, turns tail and leaves.

Alexi asks if any of the Templars could take him on a tour of the 'establishment'

* The templar which is now undead and in Alexi's control automatically volunteers and this allows them to get the templar out of the earshot of the others and ask him questions.

### Gilbert chases after Esmerelda

* Checks that she is ok
* She says she is, just a little tired - she was thinking about killing everyone but then thought better of it

### Questions for the templars

A: What do you know about what you just lost tonight?

* It was being used to make pure emeralds which were being exchanged for money

S: Where did the nephilim in the homunculus come from?

* he doesn't know

Do you know of any other emerald tablet fragments?

* no - they are very rare
* this one had to be stolen from another templar group
* the fragment was found in the Sahara

How high are you in the templars?

* not very high

What are your communications protocols?

* [missed this answer] Alexi to fill in please?

What was your group’s focus?

* [missed this answer] Alexi to fill in please?

How did you launder your money?

* [missed this answer] Alexi to fill in please?

Where do you keep all your money?

* ====There is a safe on the first floor at the back.====

### What next?

We leave and Esmeralda thanks us.  She gives all of us a bead of emerald and if we ever need to contact her we can do so.  The bead lodges itself in your pentacles
Suddenly everything disappears and we are in the moors

### Objective for next time...

Find out what the 3rd thing is: obsidian jagged something…

## 14 March 2019 (Inner astral some time in 2014)

### Before we Adventure (Levelling up and Information)

Notes:  Ran through a summary of last time.  We finished part 2 of 3 of Kiwano’s story. Part 3 of Kiwano’s story is about Obsidian jagged thing.

Notes:  God has made a ‘Runes’ magic sheet.

From God: Where –ever Escobar walks there is a trail of Sun Ka – we can follow that trail for Kiwano’s trail.

Notes:  We snap out of the inner astral so that we can train.

Notes:  Gilbert and Io scamper off.

Alexi:  Go to Mick of the place we are staying. To see if there is there anything I can do.

From God: Second circle for Conjuring is the Warrior.  None of which helps me at the moment.

From God: Since I am linked with Maiz – she was really good at torturing.  Check out her teachings.  Suggest contacting Miscafael to ask.

From God: To Escobar – there is a lot that you know now that are half-truths.

Escobar: Going to spend some time doing divination.  He wants to know more about what his ancestors know about the tablets.  Can he use the secret history to check:

* what his family involvement is
* about Esmerelda
* what her role is?
* what her goals are
* what her past is
* to help understand...

From God: Why you are in the inner astral is because Kiwano got lost there.  What Escobar knows about the inner astral is about a dream, his inner astral is connected to his cousin.  This is rare, but it has happened before in his family.

Escobar: Asking a question to his grandfather.

Alexi:  Summon Miscafael.  He has two people/entities/friends that may be useful.  One is nice and the other is not nice.

Khino: Miscafael – the Lament of Sathariel (added details into Selenim magic).  When you get to second circle let him know, he has a really good friend in the Warriors.

Escobar: Did not role well.  Skill: Secret History.  Question to Grandfather –

From God: Secret History is history that talks about Magic, and Selenims and Nephilims.  An occult history so to speak.  As a skill, it is not available to normal humans.

Escobar: Using Secret History Skill to find out what he knows about Esmerelda – ROLL 8. Slightly Dif.

From God: Esmeralda is one of 5 master Alchemists, master of water. She lives with Manush.  Has for a long time.  She was born in a cocoon, it was fragmented around the world, those fragments were linked to her pentacle, she wants to destroy the fragments and others want to find them.  Esmerelda has already reached the Agatha and is now still living amount people.

Alexi:  Call my entity for Escobar. The Cryptic Mind

Escobar: Who Am I

Person: The Cryptic Mind:  Escobar Sidrun.  Fabien relays what we know/have learned about Escobar.

* You are Sidrun.
* Your cousin is Kiwano.
* His mother Ameance.
* All linked to fruits.
* Myrterre-aunt.
* Great grandmother Kalynia (no fruit).
* Cynorrhodon.
* Grandfather and great uncle were also had named after fruits.
* You are linked to the Mistweaver who has appeared before.

Fabien:  Tthe Mistweaver powerful, cursed Cybele and others that would cause them to be linked in stasis.  Mistweaver is emperor level Kabala and beyond the rules.

Escobar: “What do I know about the Mistweaver”

Person: Cryptic Mind – Almost an urban legend.  He would be a creature of the Kabbala, but no one knows which world.  Some say he is an Emperor of the Kabbala.  There are 5 worlds, and 5 Emperors, they are well documented and he is not one of them.   He is very powerful.   The fact that he is not documented in the distant path makes it feel like he appeared recently, the past 1000 years or so, which makes him a bit of an oddity.   Creaturs of the Kabbala use magic.  A lot of people have tried to unravel the curse of the stasis.    As far as we know the only person who could do this also was Akhenaten (who gave the Bohemian’s their abilities, creating the Arcanas and the blades).  Fizz also had contact with the Mistweaver.  When Cybele woke up after the mind wipe, she woke up in the Kabbala, with Fizz, Astramance and James.

Fabien:  'Is Mistweaver Astramance?'

From God: It is possible.

From God: Interesting thing about Astramance, she can be summoned under different elements.

Sarah:  Astre / Astramance – possible link?

Sarah:  What can you tell me about 'The Game' (into the Walkie Talkie)

From God: She can tell you that you have to figure this out on your own that is the whole point.

Fabien:  Summons Nour el Ain and meditates for an hour. She will prevent the next roll of being 1.  Draws a sigil, and joins her.

Person: Nour el Ain – how many chakras have you opened?

Fabien:  One.

Person: Nour el Ain – Fabien appears on a platform in the middle of a bay.  There is in Jal'dara.  “Hello”.

Fabien:  Enter into a contract to meditate and prevent a bad roll.  Rolls 8 requires a 9.  Then rolls 14.

Into the Inner Astral ===
Notes:  Going to head into the Inner Astral.

Alexi:  Call the creature to embroider a garment to put us to sleep.

Alexi:  Increases Torturer to Master

Alexi:  Make everyone sleep.  And I go to sleep with Rigoberta.

Escobar: Rolls to get us in and fails.   Second roll – fail.  Third roll – fail.

Notes:  We wait a day to try again.

Alexi:  Calls the torturer again to put all to sleep.

Escobar: Rolls 14 to get us into the inner astral.

Notes:  We are walking through.  We see some buildings in the distance. Night falls, it gets cold. It starts snowing.  Kiwano appears and is walking beside us.  He informs you that you are in Paris.

Location: Paris - Inner Astral

From God: Roll an initiative roll.

Escobar: Wants to roll a quite = 12 or higher.  Rolls 7 – speed = Not Fast.

Alexi:  Wants to roll a quite = 12 or higher.  Rolls 8 – speed = Not Fast.

Fabien:  Wants to roll a quite= 12 or higher. Rolls 1 – skips out on astal

Sarah:  Also rolls badly – Not Fast

Notes:  We hear a commotion, Fabien disappears.

Notes:  We go to get Fabien – Escobar rolls to get out which he cannot.  Alexi kills Escobar to get him out.

Escobar: We exit the inner astral.  We re-enter the inner astral (on a 20).

Notes:  Back in Paris.  All is peaceful until it is not.

Notes:  We hear a commotion, people running in the street.   Bursting through a side street is a person, human-shaped.  Being attacked by an imago/werewolf.

Person: Werewolf – swipes at Alexi – poor role.

Person: Werewolf – swipes at Escobar.

Escobar: Dodges – successfully.   The Werewolf tries to take Escobar's head off but only grazes his collar bone.

Notes:  The werewolf keeps running and we chase after it.

Notes:  It will be quite difficult to keep up or difficult to go faster

Fabien:  Goes into Ka Sight to look around.  See a human running away – there is something weird about it but cannot tell from so far away.

Escobar: Uses harmony.  He is one of yours and your scratch is infected. He sees really bad bad things.

Magic: Attempted Divination and failed

Notes:  Escobar is in shock.  We hear more running and a small group barges into the street.    In the group is a little girl and points it towards us a group and tells us not to move.  She is angry.  She is not at her most stable.  One of the men who is with her has a moment of rolling eyes.  Puts a hand on her shoulder and says “not human”. She then rolls eyes and then relaxes and puts her gun back in her pocket.  She looks at Escobar and his scratch.  She says “That’s going to needs some help, go to find Grandma Khino on the Quay of the Tuilderies  - she has a cream for that.  Bring your friends, she’s always talking about them.  Then the little girl rushes and runs after the men.

Notes:  We decide to go to the Tuilderies – Kiwano guides us.  The edge of the river is a string of riverboats.  We find a Gypsy boat.  It’s the only weird thing we find on the Quay.  We call out, an older woman invites us in.

Notes:  There is a group of people outside around a fire but they are silent.  We walk in and there are more people but they are a little subdued.  The Grandma introduces the Nephilim as “Old Friends visiting”.  The atmosphere shifts and they are all friendly.  Offer food, warmth etc.

Notes:  Kiwano is in his element, chatting with everyone. Getting their names.

Fabien:  “Are they being nice because bohemians look after nephilims”

Escobar: “Yes, especially Gypsies”

Notes:  Escobar has been contaminated by Orichalcum.   Can Bohemians be contaminated and cannot be healed at all.   We explain what happened to the woman on the boat.  What she knows, one of her sons Lamshay disappeared a few days ago, he was raving mad, attacked people.  They caught him but he escaped.  And now they are on the hunt again.  The little girl who is hunting him – Luluji – is his daughter.

Escobar: Goes into Harmony to find out if they are Bohemians.

Escobar: Asks the woman about the inner astral.

Khino: You enter your inner astral, then you fight your demons, and then you fight other people’s demons. Then you get more powerful.  She recognizes that he is still in The Darkness.  She asks if sharing the inner astral if it is the result of a curse, or a mandala?

Khino: She asks to read his lines (palm) she does the same for Kiwano, and then puts their hands next to each other, and says “so you are brothers”.  Kiwano says no, cousins.  The woman says “no you are twin brothers”.  Kiwano looks out of focus.  She knows they are twin brothers.

Escobar: But we are different ages.

Person: Woman – no, you are twins.

Magic: Kiwano and Escobar blend now to look like each other.  Identical twins.

Sarah:  With Bewinda having twins on the way, does she think that their birth will prevent Kiwano from exiting the inner astral?

Fabien:  How does this impact my past roll that backfired onto Kiwano “we saw a vision of a very bright beacon of sun ka..”

Notes:  We figure that Kiwano and Escobar were separated at birth to prevent people knowing about the twins being born.

Confirmed that there are 3 sets of twins - Kiwano and Escobar; his mum and aunt; his grandfather and great uncle.

Leader of Manush - Eshtar - might know the answers to our questions. Bhuko is Khino’s son the leader of this caravan can take us to Eshtar. Head to the court in the morning.

## Saturday, 14 March 2015 Continued - Escobar's Inner Astral

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Date of session: 26/07/19

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To simplify tonight’s session, we begin by being back on the barge with the Gypsy family. We will be concentrating on the third formative stage of Kiwano which relates in some way to obsidian.   The Grandma introduces us to Bhuko. He will take us to the Court of Miracles tomorrow. This is where Eshtar, the head of the Gypsies has his caravan hidden. He will probably know much more and has theories about what happened to Lamshay.

We are here to figure out:

1. Why are Escobar and Kiwano connected?
2. Is it a curse or mandala?
3. What is the werewolf?

Escobar asks the Grandmother who the werewolf is. She tells us that he is a Gypsy and is also her son, Lamshay. She does not remember such an event happening before. Five days ago, he returned from a mission for the High Priestess arcana and seemed fine. A few days later he returned to the camp and was raving mad. He began attacking people including family. He was captured and immobilised. She suggests that Eshtar will know more.We decide to go meet with him.The Grandmother tells us the following.

Eshtar has a theory that Lamshay is the Redemptor, a character of the Prophecy of the Redemptive Dust.

When the Bohemians were powerful in Paris (approximately 300 years ago), the Bohemians refused to sacrifice themselves for the Nephilims and now they are not nearly as powerful as they used to be. They are shadows of themselves. The Roma people (the collection of the Roms, Manush, Gypsies, Bohemians and…), as a whole, are not magical.   A small portion of the Roma people have ‘magical abilities’. The Manush have also fallen from grace. They no longer have the Court of Miracles, a black market of ideas, etc, which was very enlightened.

The Prophecy of the Redemptive Dust

The prophecy says that a monster made of rock will appear one day and that it is the embodiment of their sins. The Redemptor must sacrifice himself for the Nephilim to fix the wrong.

Because the first adventure for Kiwano involved a golem, we wonder if Escobar or Kiwano is the Redemptor.

We still do not know how Lamshay became a werewolf and we need to find out how.We ask the Grandmother more about the mission for the High Priestess. She tells us that he was asked to bring a report from one branch to another. He had to bring the report back to the Office of the High Priestess: a company that does psycho-sociology studies called Jego & Associates. It is on Gretry Street in Paris which is very close by. There are 3 or so Nephilims there.

We ask about the granddaughter, Luluji. She is not happy about her father Lamshay being the Redempter and she wants to protect him..

In an attempt to determine if the Golem is the rock monster, we revisit the history of the golem we experienced:

There was a Nephilim who was also an alchemist who was in the process of creating a life - he was interrupted by Templars and his simulacrum was killed.   He became enstased in the Golem. The goal was to get the golem into the nexus so that the Nephilim could be released. The Templars wanted to trap the golem in a nexus to dismantle him but we stopped them from doing that for long enough that he was able to escape.

The background information implies that the Golem is not the rock monster as the story seems complete.

We now have two choices:  Follow Lampshay’s last few days or speak to Eshtar who is at the new Court of Miracles.

We head to speak with Eshtar after a night on the barge.  Bhuko guides us. He dresses like any random person. He takes us across the river to the Court of Miracles.  We go into a basement which has a well in it. We go down a well and find a tunnel. The tunnel takes us to a door of which he has the key. We go up the stairs are learn we are under the Church of Saint-Germain-L’Auxerrois.  It is located next to the Louvre.

We arrive into a vast crypt that is big, old, and covered in beautiful fabrics and furniture. There is an old caravan on the side with a golden throne. It is over the top and crazy (stereotypically Bohemian - a little classless and gauche…) but beautiful.  Sitting on the throne is a man wearing a colourful uniform (lIke Enjolras from Les Mis). He has a beautiful blue and gold mask. He has an aura and exudes an air like he is king of the castle. Bhuko urges us to be polite.

We are now in the presence of Eshtar, the leader of the Bohemians in Paris. Eshtar welcomes us as Nephilims and Bohemian. Eshtar is a flamboyant ,stereo-typical Bohemian.

We ask about Lamshay being a werewolf. He tells us Lamshay escaped from captivity and killed a number of people. We ask if he knows why he is that way. Eshtar knows that he is the Redemptor. He tells us that divination has proven that he is the Redemptor and that the Prophecy of the Redemptive Dust is upon us.

Eshtar is trying to convince all the Bohemians to look for the rock creature.   The assumption is that Lamshay turning into a werewolf is the manifestation of the Redemptor. The Prophecy of the Redemptive Dust was made about 300 years ago by a Bohemian. Eshtar feels that Lamshay’s behaviour is all about the rock creature. He believes it is a result of the eagerness to find the Rock Monster. Because Lamshay is the embodiment of the curse, it means he can contaminate others with oracalcum which explains Escobar’s injury.

Eshtar knows nothing about the assignment Lamshay was on. He tells us that the Rock Monster is made of rocks and is deadly. It could be a dragon effect. It could be a nephilim with an earth metamorph. The Rock Monster probably appeared three days ago and is looking for Lamshay. We learn that Eshtar was able to recapture Lamshay and that he is back in his cage.

Escobar uses his secret history to determine all the other masters of Alchemy: The Green Lion (fire), Hermes Trismegistus (air), Rebis (earth), The Fugitive Atalante (moon), Esmerelda (water)

Fabien tries a computer hack/search to see if there are any interesting events that happened 3 days ago that might tell us where the Rock Monster is. He finds that three days ago there was a homeless woman murdered at the Place du Chatelet. Last night, a drunk person was killed at Pont Neuf.

We head to the murder locations. The area is cordoned off under Pont Neuf. We take a look around in Harmony and Ka sight. The fields look weaker than normal. Escobar can see no trace of magic being used now or recently. It may be because powerful magic took place a long time ago or they may have been sucked up without using them.

Sarah searches for runes in ka sight and finds Hagalaz.

We take a walk to the Place du Chatelet. The police markings are gone now as the site investigation has ended. In Ka sight and Harmony, nothing seems amiss. Escobar does sense a small trail of sun ka near a statue in the centre. The statue seems to be normal. We should investigate this statue later.

We go back to Pont Neuf. Escobar tries to divine if the rock monster has been here by spending the rest of day divining. He sees rolling darkness like a corrosive cloud churning. It is very unpleasant. He sees a statue crashing to the floor, a medieval statue. An angry crowd is screaming. There is a lone Gothic tower. There is a man walking like doesn’t have full control. He turns into a small sun that is crushed by a rock. Escobar tries to determine what the tower is using his history.It is the Saint-Jacques Tower.

Sarah attempts to use rune divination to track down the rock monster. Sarah roles a 1. She gets booted out of the inner astral.

We head for the Tower Saint-Jacques. We check it out in harmony and ka sight. The Tower has no fields at all around it. The tower is either pushing the fields away or it is built in a pocket of no fields. We ask Io how this can be. She tells us that it is architecture used by the Mysteries for that purpose. It is a safe place for humans. It is a good place to store a stase or to torture a nephilim. Io refuses to enter it.

Escobar decides to do more divination from the edge of the area. He rolls a 1 and fails but escapes any damage because we are in the inner astral.

He decides to seek out the Wheel of Fortune. He fails.

Kiwano tries to divine this as well and fails.

We decide to exit the inner astral to rest and get Sarah and Alexi again.

Next time on Nephilim:

1. Go back into inner astral.
2. Investigate statute at Place du Chatelet.
3. Go into Saint-Jacques Tower to see if a nephilim is trapped. (Perhaps not saving this nephilim is how the Bohemians betrayed the Nephilim.)
4. Decipher Escobar’s divination in more detail.
5. Determine what the Rock Monster is.
6. Determine what the errand was for the High Priestess.

**DATE??? 2015 Continued - Escobar's Inner Astral**

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Date of session: 9/08/19

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If day 1 was the first time we saw the werewolf then this is day 3…

Currently out of the inner astral.

We are still in an astral (sun trail).

Going back to the inner astral. Escobar rolls and is successful.

We are back in Paris, beautiful and cold. (snowing all night)

We talk to Bhuko to get access to the court of miracles this is done by going into an  apartment in the street of the dried tree. The court is very formal and must be addressed accordingly. Eshtar is there and welcomes us, welcomes the Selinim Alexi.

Eshtar warns that be wanting to help Lampshay it would be very dangerous.

Advises that Lampshay is in a jail cell with a strong door and opening to serve meals.

Alexi says that he can use a spell by making a bola that we can use to put Lamshay to sleep.

He is successful in doing so.

Alexi summonds Sathariel who is interested to see the warewolf, Lamshay. We look through the food hutch and says that this is not a warewool, just a bohemian with a high concentration of oricalcum.

We decide to try some divination.

Alexi conjurs The purple Madusa, call of the torturer who paralises using the tail. Succeeds and the snake bites Lamshay then goes back to Alexi and latches onto him to give Alexi black moon to recharge.

Alexi conjurs the creature “spirit of the pack” - succeeds. She comes in and sees the Luluji, father and mother. Flash of Eshtar (head of Manush), a dark image in a dark space where something lashes out with sharp claws.

One Km south east of our current location is where we are, Saint German L’aux (court of miracles). It is: NotreDam

The murders that have happened are, Palais Du Chatlet, Pont Neuf, and last night another in the garden in the Museum du Cluny.
**Escobar calls his mother to ask about the High Priestess. She advises, she is the Arcana of collecting and keeping magic safe by gathering and keeping information - Foci (librarians). They are secretive about the information they collect which are in places sealed off from the rest of the world. They do not use the magic, they just store it.**

We decide to go to Jego and Associates where the high priestess is. On the 6th floor at 6 Gretry street. We are welcomed by a man with a poky profile called Cyprien Jego, he is a young man with lots of energy.

We ask to speak to the high priestess - he goes into ka sight.

Gilbert removes his pendant and changes appearance (so hot right now) to a soft and gentle figure.

Cyprien is asked if he can tell us about the report that Lamshay bought back 5 days ago. He says we would have to ask Agnes, he takes us to her.

Agnes is unfortunate looking - Cyprien leaves us with her.

Gilbert speaks to Agnes, asks some information on the bohemian who did an errand.

Agnes says he was sending a report on things that were happening in Shart, sending their records to us to have a backup. Nothing odd, she files the reports and cannot remember anything strange about him. She got the impression that he was rifling through documents. The documents she has are files she is digitising info that they have of Saint Jacques.

She runs through the info. Saint Jacques was built by the mists and has no magic running through there, they were used to store stais. Gilbert asks if she knows about the redemptor. (french revolution story???)

Statis were locked in a space where there are no fields, when things were thrown out of the no field zone. There are records that stais broke and a lot of them were stored in the Musee de Cluny. To get info about who was in the towers, she suggests asking the Mysteries.

The mysteries have a bar called “bar of the fury”.

Gilbert asked to hear more about the mysteries. This one has a dark flavour about it. At first the mysteries with lure you into a false sense of friendship and will take as much as they can.

Gilbert has asked for her contact details - we can call her and ask her about information if it is not too confidential.

We ask Io if there is sun ka where the chromatic fields do not exist. She says that there would be sun ka.

We head to the tower. The fare is 10euros for a guided tour. Gilbert takes the tour, Fabian looks for some cameras to hack into, Escobar does some divination.

**Fabian rolls an 18 and finds that Lampshay visited the tower and was there the day after visiting the priestess, he looked around for a few hours and doesn’t look like he found anything. He searched in a circular path and then went into a sewer opening.**

Kiwano does some divination and sees a crown made of grey metal and black glass (obsidien) - see someone wearing the crown, the crowm melts on their face and turns them into a monster with a beating heart made of black glass. This seemed to be magical.

Gilbert calls Agnus \*the grotest\* - asks if she can shed light on the grey metal and obsidien crown. She looks into this and says that it is an artefact calleded antidiem created bythe mists of oricalcum and black moon. There is a branch of the mist. Atlantis built by the Haim to explore the monkey humans. Promethius frees the humans by raining oricalcum and the humans realise they can use the oricalculm to forge weapons and they become the order of the mysteries and fight against the Haims. When Promethius is captured he is strapped to oricalcum and this sinks to the bottom of the (anti-tarres). The Mysteries are wanting to find Promethius and free him, they explore the anti-tarres. THey create the artifact antidiem (crown) and this opens doors to the anti-tares like a master key to explore the underworld. The high priestess steals the crown from the mysteries in the 16th century. One of nephilim put on the crown and turned kaieba and has not been found since then. The haieba can take different forms. This one was Sheagan and was earth so would be a rocky looking creature.

**Decisions:**

Make a pact with the priestess to give it to them

Make a pact with the mysteries to give it to them

Or not make a pact (this will make it hard as there will people opposing us)

**Next Session:**

Is Lampshay the redemptor?

Is the prophecy correct?

Do we ask the mysteries for info on how to get the stone (make a pact with them)

The important thing is the black moon (in the claws of Sheagan)

Was Sheagan in the tower?

Where is Fred Flinstone?