Monday, April 29, 2013

Act I Repercussions

Major Event 2, March 2012
1914 to 1918

- Admiral Daniels of the Fool's Errand is voted as Conductor. Very soon after, the Green make a loud, and potentially violent argument, and are bequeathed back the ownership of  their weapons.

- Dreamer guests include a soldier chased by another Butcher, a guilt-suffering survivor from some terrible boat accident, a mad monk called Grigori, two alienists named Carl & Sigmund, a short-sighted General, an asylum patient, and an opera singer.

- Dawn the Gull, thought dead, reappears... as a Crow. The Bounty's crew are unsure what to do...

- A lucid dreamer named Aleister makes his entrance, making it cloear he wants nothing less than the same control the Winged have. His abilities are strange and seem based on imagination rather than singing. He is ejected temporarily.

- Forerst Leyatii is attacked by a rogue Dirt War-Eyrie, the Lysfaenn. Their Robin bests the Mockingbird commander in a siege, and the Lysfaenn is claimed by the Green. Rumours of "Cats" begin to circulate...

- An Insane, Lost Owl attacks. He is made swift work of...

- A group of Bolshevik Pigeons attend, making a nuisance of themselves and spouting propaganda. A number are captured and executed after causing violence.

- A dreamer doctor claims to fighting some strange "Spanish Flu" - he is followed by swathes of the same Butchers as before. When he is checked for the clues, all that can be found are puzzle pieces. During the chaos, the pieces are stolen and mislaid numerous times, until it is eventually solved. The Butchers stop appearing...

- A strange, glowing "Child of Horus" challenges The Eye's Seshemat to an "Ancient Children's Card Game". The Sehemat wins - the ancient cards display strange Winged...

- Squire Visconti, a Grebe, brings the Riverstates terrible information - an Ancient Gigant Swan is attacking the Riverstates Houses, consuming all those beaten into her icy vale. The mercenarial Grebes are recruited, and sent to intercept Empress Articana's chilling advance...

- Two groups of Ambassadors appear: The Xenos, headed by a Macaw, a Ruby-Caste Hummingbird and a well-dressed Penguin, and the Lost, headed by the cold Empress Articana and the previous 1880's Conductor, the Caracara Tenebrae Fols. Articana challenges Gloriana and her Imperium, and is swiftly counter-challenged by Carla - she leaves, prepared to duel for the River...

- The Hummingbird, angered, challenges Fols, and is destroyed. Fols is warmly embraced by the Raptors, who ask their patron Tururl to have him accepted into their family. Gustav steps down as King, bowed by too many walking ancestors...

- Aleister Crowley suddenly returns, backed by suited, robed armed henchmen baring symbols similar to both MINITru and the Eye. Chaos breaks out, as he attempts to either kidnap or kill Admiral Daniels. Despite being a Dreamer holding a leg of suspicious meat, Crowley holds his own with his arcane powers, but is eventually forced to flee, alongside his followers. One is not so lucky - tortured, the man named Cosmo Hartley explains little, except some Dreamer organization named "The Golden Dawn", and Crowley's attempts to birth "The Moonchild". Dondarrion, a Crane of the RiverStates, vows there and then to destroy the Moonchild.

- As the Parliament closes, it becomes apparent the Dodo Nikostratus and the Moa known simply as "The Professor" have achieved something great - with a powerful Artefact ritual, the two have deconstructed and rebuilt some colossal, ancient device, now in the centre of the Dream. The Cage is easily as big as a country, and appears to be made of millions of giant ancient Dreamcatchers. Supposedly, every Winged who has ever died and not been consumed is inside...

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