The Cereal Box:Log/Session 67

Session 67

The motley continued to discuss their options regarding how to deal with Sephie's daughter, eventually agreeing that the plan should be to eliminate the threat to Songbird rather than "deal with" her love triangle. Alana gave an impassioned speech about how Songbird is the VICTIM here, and she REFUSES to make the victim have to change her life because she's under attack.

Wednesday, June 30th

Nikolai spent the morning acquiring a crystal ball, and was able to find one that would work for both scrying and counter-scrying. Ernie decided consecrated the tool to make it much more powerful. Nikolai was warned to keep it covered - not because it's dangerous that someone could see through it, but because it's a lens that will focus light.

Songbird arrived for lunch and was informed about the warlock situation. Alana and Hestia convinced Songbird that this is not a benign situation, since most stalkers escalate after initially making benign contact. Songbird recognized that this was, of course, important and true, and admitted that this was an issue that needed to be addressed (while mentioning that she knew how Phlox felt about her love triangle, but "He doesn't understand how friendship and love work").

The warlock made contact with Songbird again at this time, appearing as a frightening white-haired wizard with a long beard. "Behind the curtain," and using the scrying crystal ball he had acquired, Nikolai was able to see that a middle-aged middle eastern man with a goatee and shaggy black hair was sitting in sweatpants with a bowl of oatmeal making the threats. Through a window visible in the living room, Nikolai could see a north-facing lake. Through counter-scrying, Nokolai was able to scope out the apartment and the motley determined the most likely complex for it to be. The motley determined that there was a coffee house named Beaner's nearby. They discussed numerous ways they could stake out or assault the location.

By magical manipulation and clever triangulation, Nikolai was able to view the apartment from where he was again, which gave him the impression that it was a ground floor apartment. Nikolai determined that this was a ground floor apartment and became very certain he could open a hedge gate there. They discussed what steps they should take and the motley settled on invading the place and signaling their compatriots from outside.

They justified a strike against him on numerous grounds, not least the threats against Songbird (which suggested she had three days to submit to the Seers of the Throne lest doom befall her. They further argued, "He was trying to steal changeling things!" to which Songbird suggested, "Well, to be fair, so were we." The motley shot back, "But you didn't throw lightning at us, shoot us, or throw us out a window."

The motley decided that they should infiltrate exclusively via hedge gate to avoid leaving any traces for mortals and non-changeling to follow.

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