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Cast

• Phinnae Juggernaut of the West
• Jade Wisdom Scavenger lord in the making.
• Scarred (Drunken Solar with a hidden past)
• Savvy (Beauteous Lunar with a debt to repay)

Extras

• Taros Petasi - Enigmatic Elipse Scavenger Lord, maybe with ties to House Ragara?
  • Ragara Tanro - Servant of Taros
• Peleps Dakura - MUST DIE!!!!
• Madam Wu - Owner of a cheap Teahouse in Nexus...
• Pirule Kugimo - hapless mortal Nexus labourer trying to earn a quick coin by spying on Exalts... (and a dwarf)

Deceased and or Unknown

• Su Chi - First Age Dawn Caste
• Eight Times Dreaming - First Age Twilight Caste
• Swift Silence - First Age Changing Moon

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17th Descending Wood

Early morn in Nexus. A good looking woman, Savvy, is wandering through the bustling street and notices a young woman covered in moonsilver tattoos and carrying a large moonsilver bow, Phinnae. Probably a lunar?

Some mean looking guys start following the ladies.

Scarred emerges drunk from a bar, and sees the mean guys menacing two good looking chicks.

A Jade Wisdom also notices the incidental 'mugging' but is greatly intrigued by the appearance of two Lunars and a Solar! (Recognised immediately through use of charm). He heads toward the Exalts.

Mooks die in a splash of gore and artifact fans.

Jade Wisdom begs to be in the service of such mighty lord and ladies.

Leads the Exalts to the teahouse where he has been staying (Madam Wu's Teahouse of Excellent Courage... but no! They get interrupted by another mysterious Exalt who takes them to a warehouse.

This Exalt reveals the name of Taros Petasi, and tricksy-like binds the party to an oath stating they will help uncover the whereabouts of the Golden Bow of the East.

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18th Descending Wood

Jade Wisdom says 'How about the library?'.

Party goes there and Jade Wisdom uses some social fu to get within, and mighty investigation-fu to uncover the old history of the Bow within about 30 minutes. (Yay 9 sux!) There is a legend and a history behind it all!

• The Tale of Shu Zhou

Feeling job done, party goes back to warehouse. Meets a servant of Taros - Ragara Tanro.

Next day...

19th Descending Wood

Savvy and Phinnae head off seperately to wander aimlessly lost around Nexus. Jade Wisdom heads to Madam Wu's Teahouse of Excellent Courage to check on his belongings. He is pleased that all is still there, and disheartened that his meagre funds are running dry. Scarred practices his drunken martial arts for a few hours. And remains intoxicated.

All are back in time for Taros to arrive.

Taros is pleased at the findings of the party so far, and suggests they might wish to go to Sijan to investigate the Solar Tombs there, on his behalf. Strangely, he is unwilling to go there himself, due to unexplained, mysterious circumstances... wooooo...

Savvy is unwilling. Says she has other stuff to do. Phinnae can't understand a word of what's going on anyway... Scarred is too drunk to care. Jade Wisdom is too unimportant to weigh in with opinions.

Taros shrugs and says if they change their mind they can find him at the Seven-Thousand-Pleasures Teahouse.

The Lunars chit-chat for a while. Swapping small parts of their respective tales. Savvy fills in Phinnae withh some lunary lore stuff that she seems strangely ignorant of. Phinnae seems pleased by this.

Scarred and the Jadeborn chit-chat on the pro's and cons of drunkeness and temperance. The solar offers the Jadeborn some of the sake from his magic gourd (which just sounds... dirty) and Jade Wisdom accepts graciously. He quietly contemplates the alcoholic heat for a few moments before Savvy starts to ask him questions...

Jade Wisdom explains what he knows about Eclipse Oath-binding. This makes Savvy even more nervous about the secret debts she has to repay, and binding a Solar "against his will" into an Oath he doesn't know about. The Jadeborn attempts to ease her mind, arguing that Taros wasn't tricked into his end of the Oath, but Savvy remains unconvinced.

Savvy gives a small hint as to the debt she must repay, and what she must do for that repayment. She must kill off Peleps Dakura, a notable Dragon-Blood of cruel demeanour who is staying in Nexus. Presumably exiled from the Realm and its finer sensibilities.

Jade Wisdom accepts this as a serious matter, and can understand she does not wish Taros to commit a murder on her behalf to fulfil his side of the Oath. After some thought, he suggests that the Solar may know the whereabouts of Dakura in Nexus, and that by giving that information may be considered to have helped Savvy in her goal. The Lunar agrees this seems wise, and the pair make their way to the Seven-Thousand Pleasures Teahouse.

It is a very fine establishment, and the unflappable Taros appears to have been expecting them. Upon explaining her desire to know the whereabouts of Dakura, the Solar agrees to help. Some small talk and pleasantries are exchanged, and then the Lunar and Jadeborn depart.

In the meantime, Phinnae has gone looking for pirates, slavers and markets. She finds a scum-filled Inn and begins talking to some scurvy dogs...

But the scurvy dogs are elusive, sly and secretive and divulge no new secrets. Phinnae is tired and wary of this new city. She decides to return later afreshed. Phinnae returns to the warehouse. Phinnae

Night passes and a new day dawns...

20th Descending Wood

Some discussion is had among the mismatched party as they awaken. This discussion now includes Phinnae who can now actually, mysteriously, suddenly, speak High Realm. No one seems phased by this.

The Jadeborn decides he would be better off if he retrieved his belongings from Madame Wu, thus saving on fees. He goes for a morning walk through the steaming city with Phinnae by his side. They walk in silence for the couple of hours necessary. Upon retrieving his small collection of goods (mostly scrolls, books, paper, ink, brushes and chisels) Phinnae offers to help carry some to help him. Jade Wisdom is a bit perplexed by the idea of an Exalt helping him, or maybe it's her thick western accent. He says thankyou and gives her two exquisite feather quills to carry, not wishing to impose upon her generosity, but also unsure as to her intent, nor willing to risk her displeasure by refusing her aid.

Phinnae also seems a bit bemused by these quills.

Together they travel back to the Warehouse.

Further discussions are held as to what the day will bring, and the conversation turns to the mysterious people who appear to be following members of the party at various times. A plan is formulated to let the Jadeborn and the Solar wander to a market, while the two Lunars follow behind discretely to spot anyone else trying to follow.

This plan gets kinda boring as the markets are miles away, and no one seems to follow them. Sigh. At the markets Jade and Scarred make use of the time to begin organizing travel to Sijan, and then as the day gets longer, they start to head back. Then Jade Wisdom spots the face of one of the people who had been spotted trailing them!

The imposing armoured Jadeborn pounces onto the hapless mortal and holds him in a fierce, intimidating grip. Some questioning by the party reveals he (Pirule Kugimo) has been paid to make notes about their travels - who they talk to, where they go each day, etc - and drop the note into a tavern, where the barkeep forwards the note onto a mysterious (there's that word again) Dynast. Thinking this tavern would be close by, the party decides to follow the guy there.

Some hours later Jade Wisdom, Savvy and Phinnae arrive at the tavern with the guy. Scarred is long lost. Savvy flirts with the barkeep and uncovers some information, such as what the Dynast kinda looks like, and the regular daily visits made to get the collected notes from many people around Nexus.

• Dynastic dude:
  • Looks wealthy and foppish
  • Dark haired
  • Comes to the Tavern alone
    • Each day
    • Irregular times

Aaaand... that's about it. Mystery upon mystery...

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21st Descending Wood

So, Savvy, Phinae and Jade Wisdom start to wander back to the warehouse with Pirule. Savvy runs off, leaving Phinnae and Jade to stop a short distance away from the Tavern to discuss the situation some more.

Phinnae suggests they should remain close to the Tavern with Pirule so he can identify the wealthy fop. Jade Wisdom is sceptical of this idea due to an inability to reasonably hide Pirule and prevent him from calling out or otherwise attracting unwanted attention.

Comments

• Added links to the first age exalts and linked other NPCs to my pages. - Bencyclopedia