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Episode description[edit | edit source]
After careful planning, the Notion covertly breaches the outer perimeter of the Vale, bypassing the dronefield of Saint Wynter... only to have a bumbling team of Advent Group agents set the alarm off. After retreating, the group find its bearings and begins to moves through the overgrown city, a strange echo of an alternate Quire. The group meets a stranger in need, but before he can be fully aided, Saint Wynter comes into sight, looking to stop the intruders. Echo Reverie leads the group deeper into the Vale (and away from her approach), while Gig Kep-hart and Even Gardner aim to distract and confront the oncoming threat. Signet, as is her way, searches for an alternate solution.
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And I don't like to fight 'til I'm fighting
Revenge in the air make my lungs sick
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Opening[edit | edit source]
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Sometimes violence moves too quickly to be registered in full. A blade swings faster than eyes can follow. A wound shifts from superficial to fatal, before its recipient can confront the difference. A bang, a spray of blood, or oil, or both. A sudden collapse from heavy breathing, to silence.
But when the Advent Group’s three-person team sets of Saint Wynter's drone field alarm, everything happens very slowly. Projectiles float, wobble along through empty air, missed strikes shake free lose leaves, and, when blows do land, the moment of impact is stretched across time. A bruise. A broken rib. A stumbling retreat to safety. Or finality.
Hidden under a canopy of distorted trees, trunks not quite attached to branches, vines taking up the same place twice, color through kaleidoscope mirror, Motive Motif, Volunteer of Seiche and new member of the Advent Group, begins an accounting of what is left. Asensory tents to rest and hide in; a snap-lock EMP device, for all the good it did, buried at the bottom of their packs; a week’s worth of ration patches, an axiomatic scanner and the capture device to match; the concrete bat of his companion, Breaker’s Baritone, the Particular assigned to the mission, who he can hear struggling with her air filter under a nearby tree; a temporal flare which, both a surprise and not, he sees has already been fired.
“It’s all here,” Motif calls to Baritone, who exhales out a wordless acknowledgement, before another voice breaks through the low misty chirping of uncatalogable insects. “I uh, I think I’m missing, I think I’m missing my…” But Motif does not listen to what is missing. Because in front of him, wearing the stark white Advent uniform, is a total stranger. And whether he realises it or not, there is something new amongst the group’s belongings. A strange ache, for something missing. A feeling that is at once present, yet which gestures to an empty space.”
Plot[edit | edit source]
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Cast[edit | edit source]
- Austin Walker (GM)
- Sylvia Clare (Echo Reverie)
- Janine Hawkins (⸢Signet⸣)
- Keith J Carberry (Gig Kep-hart)
- Andrew Lee Swan (Even Gardner)