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Background
Episode description
After returning from their meeting with Advent and the Concretetown Particulars, the Notion discusses the complexity of the situation over dinner. When a new offer is made, the group prepares for their largest operation yet: The piercing of a powerful storm and a confrontation against an Axiomatic foe. Even digs for information, Signet reaches out for Divine aid, and Echo returns a gift.
Cold open
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One hour after receiving word about the negotiations, Cat's Cradle, part-time mercenary and loyal envoy of the Concretetown Particulars, found herself catching her breath in the strangest place. She stood horizontally against the horizon, miles above Gift-3, attached by mag-lock boots to the Advent Society tech main, a massive orbital elevator connecting their burgeoning ground side headquarters with their research and development station above.
For the last fifteen minutes, she'd been counting the lightning strikes of the storm below, ears straining involuntarily in hopes of hearing thunder and trying to make sense of what the proposed deal would mean for her, and for the entire Quire system.
She breathed deeply, like city tourist on mountaintop. Despite the lack of oxygen, it was easier for her respirator here than below, or anywhere else on the Nine Idylls. People had misunderstood the mechanism that the citizens of Concretetown wore. Most folks thought that the Hegemony's experimental cement had made it hard for the Particulars to breathe the gaseous form of The Mirage, but that was backwards. The reason they could breath near their concrete homes, was that the material was fused with Mirage stuff. The problem with the planets wasn't the trace amounts of strange particles in the air, it was the oxygen.
Cradle took hold of a momentum grip nearby, and pushed herself upwards falling further away from Gift-3, and towards the nearest transpo station. By the time she'd arrived, she'd counted another five strikes in the massive permanent storm that swam across Gift-3's field of bubbling Q-glass.
She found herself remembering a lesson taught to her by a grade-school teacher many sleep detachments long dead. Though we think of lighting striking the ground, her teach told her. It actually moves in two directions. First, countless branching leader sparks reaching downwards, cutting through invisible channels in search of vulnerability. But it is when they find their match below, when negative meets positive that the snake of blue-white plasma we call lightning really happens. You need both, she told herself. You need both.”
Plot summary
Cast
- Austin Walker (GM)
- Andi Clare (Echo Reverie)
- Janine Hawkins (⸢Signet⸣)
- Andrew Lee Swan (Even Gardner)
Other Appearances
- Graph-1
- Graph-2
- Graph-3
- Fountain Facade
- Mélange Facade
- Juniper-3
- Evangel
- Cat's Cradle