2025-09-12 Hardening Harmegis

General Summary

Scene: Autochthonia > Harmegis > Maker’s Anvil

  • Fortifier goes to the workshops of the Sodalities.
  • They have a gigantic workshop that could probably be a drydock for Cinshan.
  • There are a few working to repair some glassflies
  • Fortifier tells them a Divine Minister is in the city, concerned that they may come under attack by a giant aircraft, and we need to prepare the defenses.
  • They direct him to speak to the plutarchs to get necessary resources reallocated.

    • Scene: Autochthonia > Harmegis > Plutarchy

  • Giant building shaped like a great glass pattern spider. Perhaps 10000 people work in this structure.
  • Inside the building, the workers seem to be using a different writing system.
  • Some of the number symbols even seem to have diverged.
  • Whenever they write the number 8, they write it with Magical Materials, mostly jade.
  • Fortifier figures out they seem to be using a base 40 system because it is 5 x 8.
  • After speaking to the front desk person, an starstruck young page is assigned to lead Fortifier to the floor where they handle martial matters.
  • We don’t see the officials and the page explains they aren’t working this shift.
  • Fortifier decides to use this time to fill out the necessary paperwork and prepare to present on the topic.
  • The forms have a set of checkboxes for assigning one of about 5 possible alchemicals that serve Claslat.
  • Foremost Fist of Righteousness is listed and Fortifier decides to contact her with an Infallible Messenger to ask her to come to the defense of Harmegis as soon as possible.
  • Fortifier looks for the city’s action plan for withstanding the Blight and other attacks.
  • Unfortunately, this is the office for request forms, and does not have the classified emergency protocols.
  • When Fortifier looks for where to turn in the form and sees someone in another room who has Starmetal around their soulgem.
  • Fortifier happens to meet Renault, Harmegis’ Chief Regulator.
  • Renault’s demeanor is much less starstruck, perhaps more disenchanted, at meeting an Alchemical Exalt. Fortifier eyes him up to sense his Intimacy toward Alchemicals.
  • Renault is fairly neutral on the Alchemicals as a group, but Symphonic Harmony specifically frustrated him and he’s just taking some of that out by being abrasive toward Fortifier.
  • Renault’s major virtue is Discipline.
  • Fortifier asks Renault to help create a plan to defend the city from a Five-Metal Shrike and this new necro-Blight.
  • Renault was unaware of either of these threats. Further, he is shocked and dismayed Runel and Symphonic Harmony did not inform him properly.
  • Fortifier reasons the Divine Minister and metropolis must have meant for him to handle this because of the Jade Caste’s
  • Fortifier summons one of his artifact gauntlets and clasps his mighty fist to his chest as he tells the tells the chief regulator. “Your city, nation, and god call you to mobilize at once!”
  • The chief affirms with a crisp salute and then dashes off to muster the militia.

    • Scene: Autochthonia > Harmegis

  • Meanwhile, Stelsor has a number of plans
  • Finding an alchemical pal for Fortifier
  • making dreamcrystal records of Autochthonia
  • Start a place to make Sublime Twilight
  • Get more workers
  • Health Slurry sales
  • More machines
  • Opal & Crystal sales
  • Optical Essence Cannon manufacture
  • Building research
  • Lightning Crystals
  • Stelsor visits the sodality workshops where he sticks out a lot.
  • He’s told there’s Head Luminor Varrakech in his 8th floor laboratory and Chief Scholar Uriki in the basement.
  • Stelsor shows Varrakech a spirit lantern which causes ghosts to appear. He wants to combine this design with Autocthonian essence cannons to create something that might combat the necro-Blight or shadowlands.
  • Stelsor also shows Varrakech Little Cloud and the luminor is blown away.
  • Stelsor also drops the name of Fortifier of Hearts & Bones and sends an Infallible Messenger to send for him.
  • Varrakech suggests they speak with Uriki.
  • Uriki is a very wizened professor-type.
  • The sodalts reason they could probably create one of these canons within the day if they really try.

    • Scene: Autochthonia > Harmegis

  • Several hours later, the sodalts bring us extremely dark goggles for us to wear as they demonstrate their prototype.
  • They charge it up and immediately overload the device.
  • Dreamflower and Fortifier work together to design and construct a piece that will step down the essence flow.
  • We meet with Plutarch Alviarin and show her the optical essence canon.
  • Symphonic Harmony is undergoing the Rite of Reconfiguration but that will take some more time.
  • The plutarch is nervous about the energy needs of our device.
  • As we brainstorm how we will power our new weapon, alarms begin to repeat “RECONFIGURING. Shelter in place!”
  • The pipe organ and piano keys have reformed into missile launchers and mobile sentry drones.
  • The chief regulator arrives and hands some recording medium to the plutarch who plugs it in and we see a hologram of the Five-Metal Shrike with updated stats.
  • It is roughly 2 hours out from the city.
  • Dreamflower determine that Chief Scholar Uriki and our majordomo candidate Melumbo Rishi have sorcerous potential. In fact, she had found about 60 people in the city who she was able readily train.
  • Giving them the virtue of Courage so they could
  • For their initial spell, we teach Cirrus Skiff to 30 and Flames of Unyielding Purity to the remaining 30.
  • Grant them a better pool for Focus Will.

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    Report Date
    12 Sep 2025
    Primary Location
    Harmegis, the centropolis
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    Exalted3e/Ess-The Special Convention
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    _Session Reports in Nexan, Sijanese Interlude
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    Toroid
    Publication Date
    6 Sep, 2025
    Creation Date
    6 Sep, 2025
    Last Update Date
    20 Sep, 2025
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