General Summary
Stelsor observes some of the dreams of Marilyn and sees nightmares that are pretty disturbing.
Dreamflower notices the child seems to have an inborn talent for essence manipulation.
When we removed her from the Shadowlands, she seemed slightly less comfortable, where most people feel more at ease.
Marilyn pranks Just Distribution of Abundance by setting an ink bottle to spill onto her.
Stelsor leads us in constructing a new model to show others.
Just Distribution beckons Fortifier to the steam baths.
She naked and having trouble getting the ink out of her inorganic parts. What was just regular ink seems to have become much stickier and darker than normal.
Fortifier approaches this in the gentle but clinical manner of a doctor addressing a patient and even asks to take samples of this substance for later study.
Just Distribution has complicated and mostly negative feelings about how Fortifier is responding to her and her problem.
Fortifier detects that Just Distribution is upset that Fortifier didn’t appreciate her body as much as she’d have liked.
He decides not to dig himself a deeper hole at this time: brings her some solvents from the lab to help her clean herself and plans how to make this up to her later.
Fortifier’s trials of Sublime Twilight have completed: Wanda "Olive" Oyl (Vorasha’s mother) and the Firewander innkeeper.
Dreamflower is in search of mortals who stand out as worthy of being elevated to becoming heroes.
She empowers Haussmann Firewand, who tends the shrine to Silent Eyes, god of the organized crime victims, to become the equivalent of a God-blooded.
Also the 2nd and 3rd in command of the River District Watch.
Fortifier makes notes and sketches of Just Distribution to commission a flattering sculpture of her.
Scene: 12 Carnelian Peaches > Morning
Flora Gesatti and Noura Yasin arrive bringing dolls and dresses that the Stelsor commissioned them on short notice.
Marilyn asks why the dolls have no clothes. Flora and Noura worked fast and say they just forgot the doll’s luggage which they will bring later.
Marilyn preciously asks if they dolls can look like her parents.
Marilyn tries on one of the dresses and then runs around excitedly.
Fortifier talks to Prital Tarawi about Eressanada and finds out they will be meeting up later to attend another fight that Shun-the-enemies-of-Autochton is competing in.
Seline shows up and is quite taken with Marilyn.
Seline pushes quite past Stelsor and we observe these two playing a lot.
At first, it seems the child attempted to mystically affect Seline.
Green lines of essence are passing between them.
We ask Prital what this is about and Prital mentions that Marilyn has the highest concentration of secrets in the room, aside from Seline and Prital themselves of course.
Seline explains that she is weaving a blessing of Jupiter upon the child to that her secrets may be her own, the child has suffered enough.
A green tear drops from Seline’s eye and disappears before hitting the floor.
The blessing will hold as long as Jupiter grants.
Stelsor had Repatriator of Souls bring Mister Jangles to keep Marilyn company.
She doesn’t even wait for Stelsor to make the introductions before she starts playing with the large dog.
Karal Kallias and Wisdom’s Shining Promise arrive, somewhat exhausted from a long night.
Scene: 12 Carnelian Peaches > Lab > Fortifier treating Karal Kallias
Seline is somehow already in the lab when Fortifier takes Kallias there. Fortifier asks Kallias if he would permit the lady to observe, but Kallias doesn't seem to see this lady, so Fortifier lets it go.
Fortifier is drawn to Kallias’ left shoulder where he has a large spiritual mass, like an invisible abscess.
It is a fully supernatural, similar to the Oblivion Spores, dark as the ink from earlier.
Treatment
Fortifier whips up something like nitrous oxide to relax Kallias for the procedure.
Fortifier uses the Oblivion Spear to extract this dark globule of evil.
Fortifier determines that no one else was infected/afflicted when this occurred.
Someone familiar enough with Kallias to enter his dreams had implanted the spore remotely.
The person has initials DRP -> (Deathrose Pot-pourri)
Fortifier tells Seline that this seems to have come from Deathrose Pot-pourri, a deathknight of The Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears.
Fortifier brings in Wisdom’s Shining Promise to fill her in on this.
We ask if they have any contact with Thorns or agents of The Mask of Winters
WSP says no, they’re mostly travelling to Merida, Nexus, Great Forks while Thorns is all in the other direction.
Next scene is probably the presentation on Stelsor’s amusement park.
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