The Cure of The Soul
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ShadowHaven Loyell | Major Corp | ||||||||
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Artemisia Babylon Brokkr Catharsis Fennec |
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Summary
Background
Fennec is streaming, and picks up Biggie Beefcake as he calls. Teasing both Biggie and chat, Fennec accepts the job. Catharsis is trying to make dinner, with Loyell causing as much chaos as he can for the decker when Messner Vukotic calls. Spirit wrangling continues as Messner explains what he needs, and Catharsis accepts the job. Brokkr is stiffed by a the family with a 5% tip on his taxi ride, as Alice Kane calls, explaining that the dwarf needs to head for E-Vue. Babylon is restocking their magical sundries and preparing her finger razors as a weapon focus. Mush calls, and distracts the mage from any further restocking with a job. Babylon is stopped by her dear friend and parole officer, Charles Dreyfus. He grills her for a moment about her family that has been kidnapped from Ares HQ. Artemisia is talking with a customer, awkwardly info dumping until a new woman enters. As Arti is attacked by how large and French Julie d'Aubigny is, the woman asks for Artemisia under her shadowrunning name, Julie stating that she wants her sword back.Arti attempts to tell the woman she doesn't have the sword, but is slapped with a glove for her lies, and a duel is demanded. Arti, realizing she has lost a customer, accepts the duel, and states her terms: To the blood, and if she wins, Julie has to buy a book. Catharsis then shoots to call Arti to let her know she's getting ready to head out of town--Instead she gets a busy signal and a text from Ace Powers to the stream of the duel that is on going.Brodie J pays out his various debts as the duel goes in Arti's favor, with Julie passing out due to being poisoned by an unknown third party. In a panic, Arti calls Cathy, who helps Julie get to a hospital, but also get the vampire to the job.
The Meet
With the crew finally collected, Alexander-James Brodrick Johnson III better known as Brodie J explains he needs a book, and that people seem to not want him to have it. The book is called Lost and Obscure Rituals of Theoretical Magical Applications, which contains a ritual he needs to do. He further explains that off the coast of Egypt, towards the Mediterranean, both Celedyr and Masaru are building another library of Alexandria. With a 10k advance and a plane ready, the crew is off.
The Run
Catharsis and Fennec dive into the matrix, and surface with the following: The New Great library of Alexandria, is placed in Egypt because of an ancient decree that dragons cannot set foot in Egypt, funded by NeoNet before the lockdown. Masaru seems to be taking point, but the island includes housing for notable scholars and services. The book is written by a Hermetic who paradigm shifted to an unknown tradition who has gone missing or died. It has magic that is very hard to replicate practically, with it effectively being a piece for magical scholars. Once a spell has been cast from this book, it is rumored to disappear. This is where the party runs into the first speed bump: women aren't exactly as equal as men as the party is used to in Seattle. Upon landing, the group settles into hotels before Brokkr sends a drone out to the island to take a look at the library itself on the meat. Finding that the vents may be able to fit a pelican, Gomorrah continues on the astral to speak with the spirits who access the library.
With the help of some spells, and a machine sprite, Catharsis makes her way into the destination host with the intent to enter the industrial host. There's inner turmoil, the decker wanting to remain on Marsaru's good side, before deciding to brave into the industrial host and find out what the profiles for library's guests contain so Babylon can enter into the library proper. With security files in hand and what they need for Babylon's profile in hand, calls go out to Melia Blake for a letter of recommendation, who in turn asks for 'The Complete Oral History of the Elven People' and a call goes out to Marie-Claire d'Orléans, who in exchange for a chip from both Fennec and Babylon receives a second prestigious letter of recommendation by the end of the day. After regrouping and exchanging information, Catharsis heads towards the library to see about gaining access legitimately via Loyell. Gaining access and Loyell his own library card, the spirit looks into the Dragon Civil War, specifically in Amazonia, and several areas that are still recovering (one of those areas including Loyell's spirit formula). Catharsis relays this experience to Babylon, who enters on her time to compare the experience. Letting Gomorrah explore, the spirit finds a secret passage behind a bookshelf, the passage leads to an open doorway blocked by an alarm ward.
Fennec, thinking upon it deeply, realizes that Alexandria is a subscriber, and a perfect option for a distraction to sneak a drone in while the spiders are busy. Fennec is able to convince Alexandria to enter the host of Alexandria and cause some chaos. After some back and forth and meeting with the group, the mutual relationship with Katherine Tyler. There's the explicit mention from Catharsis that this situation cannot be mentioned to Kate. Borrowing Catharsis' deck, Brokkr settles in to hide in plain sight, darting through the vents to map out the fourth floor and find the books, the drone able to open the secret door, but unable to close it. Finding each dragon has their own side, it takes winding up to the seventh floor before Brokkr finds the text that is potentially the book they're looking for as their primary objective, Lost and Obscure Rituals of Theoretical Magical Applications with Melia's book on the floor below. It's during this sweep, it's noted that there's a potential for drakes hanging out in the fifth or sixth floor. Realizing that 'The Complete Oral History of the Elven People' is a whopping 1000 pages to Lost and Obscure Rituals of Theoretical Magical Applications' mere 500. A second pelican drone is ordered promptly to address this issue, and the group prepares to strike.
The plan is: Take Arti in via the vents in a pelican. Arti, as a rat, makes their way to the books. With her enchanting gloves, she will grab the books, put one in each pelican, then climb back inside with the smaller book, she can sail out via the vents. As they are preparing, Catharsis spies a green eyeball like drone. Successfully marking it, and chasing it across the data trails she finds Relay's Helper spying on them after Jack's summoning, and the robot observed the summoning of Baphomet. Confused and concerned, she sits there trying to process as the job begins.