The Cereal Box:Log/Session 23

Session 23

April 5th

Alana and Fetchlana had breakfast without actually meeting each other, with April running back and forth between them to make sure they got fed. Hestia called Billy for advice on her portal, and he explained he had a task for them tomorrow night involving delivering Tokens to a changeling from the courts of Windsor in return for both the goodwill of that semi-neighboring Freehold and tokens of their own. In return for her promising him a kiss, Billy gave her advice on closing the portal, most of which amounted to "it would probably help to know who owned the place beforehand, since they almost certainly opened the portal."

The motley worked to close the portal at Hestia's restaurant. Dai Yujin owned Cantonese Moon - may have been hands off because he was using it as a Triad laundering scheme. Wendell Baker was a manager of the location. Hestia asked two BURNING QUESTIONS: how can we close the portal? and why was the portal open continuously? The answer to the first was that they needed to counter the emotional resonance of the open portal by creating a mundane way of closing it and fueling that with emotion. The answer to the second was that the protection of the Cereal Box was bleeding into the Hedge while the portal was open, so continually opening a portal would make that Hollow within the hedge a haven against the True Fae, but doing this blurred the lines between the Hedge and the real world.

The motley closed the portal by building a door which they tried to close with first anger (which failed) then disappointment (which succeeded).