Shentu Wo: 332 Power, 497 Followers
Sima Wa: 184 Power, 819 Followers
Lin Sun: 147 Power, 173 Followers
Con Lai: 148 Power, 291 Followers
Sima Wa: Ira given the fiery war axe, Cataegis has the kagayakashi ring, locust has left Eret to travel with Song Yi. Shade reports back only to be told to go right back to where he came from.
Get to know:
Am Nahc is a pretty chill dude. He just hangs around and plays music, he is largely interested in the people among the city. He has been working with Zaeed to host a festival in Sthan Thi to cheer people up to distract them from thinking too hard about so much of their military suddenly mobilizing. While gods know whats going on, to many people without godlike worldly presence most things are just rumors and hearsay. So its easy to keep them distracted and not thinking about how half their pantheon is off to get into trouble. In all, this showcases Am Nahc’s greatest usefulness alongside with Aphrodite he keeps the civilians not freaking out over events they loosely hear about from far away lands.
Quy Ong is a strange man, he often does that weird thing where a person refuses to speak in anything but rhymes. Everyone finds him a little aggravating but not enough to punch him. Though he reveals what his real talent is, he does exactly what everyone thought Lucifer does. He makes deals with mortals that usually go awry, giving them what they want but at a cost they are usually not prepared for, preying on desperation. He is very clearly a dark god.
The city is armed fairly quickly, since Kagayakashi produces weapons for the military anyways it just held onto some of the extra stock and spread it around the city. This turns out to be so stupidly easy for a city whose whole job is to make weapons that it doesn’t slow robits research. The first of the Automatons are done (see roster update).
Shento: Ryner has joined Song Yi’s march. His lieutenant has become named. Blood plague needs more specifics. Lot of roster updates.
Lin Sun: The experiment of putting Eret in the dream realm turns out to be okay. While the realm has infinite possibilities…it also has nearly no possibilities. Because no matter how many dreams are had or how the realm shifts around him, those dreams have zero impact on the future events. As it turns out when every event can spawn 5 events that spawn 5 events that spawn 5 events he overloads, but when every dream has 10 possibilities, then people wake up and go on their merry way, it turns out to be way less then 5 to the power of X. He can survive longer in the dream realm then anywhere else as it turns out. However, it also turns out he cannot predict the future of the physical world from the dream realm unless Con Lai expends 60 power to let him do so (per prediction).
Thandar shows off and tests his powers a little bit. Turns out he can get from Sthan Thi to Kagayakashi very quickly…because he and Andelko flew there with his telekinetics. Time blessed area in the Mao Yachi works out, Lykopis is thankful despite exhausted and in a lot of pain. A single Aetas is going with the army because they reaaaaally want to see Yaosai, the fortress of Lengdon. You know…that one place that predates the jade empire and has a library. The aetas knight may have creamed himself when he learned that actually existed.
You are really lucky you thought to have Zaeed help because that let you reroll…something. Intel wise Vris actually did find out something useful. While she didn’t find out a way to bypass Eli because the Djinn could not grant wishes affecting gods, in this case granting the knowledge of countering Eli. Vris was able to wish for the knowledge of how to find that information. It turns out there is someone who knows, and all Vris has to do is go find and ask that person a long fetch quest for the macguffin. See lore update.
Arachne the cast member everyone forgot gets back to work making forests really goddamned hard to pass through outside Kagayakashi.
Heisi brings up a point about the Eleni job. See Eris is a thykenae goddess..and if they swap sides…While she’s bad for Eret she’s still capable of spawning wars, and had she not been recalled to Thykenae, Divya Samrajya would be invading Taiyo instead of Doi Cho Len.
Con Lai: Alice is traveling, long walk. So temple destruction won’t begin for another update or so. Same note applies to Milenkosi. Though the mass dreams of safety across the Thykenae empire has had a very dramatic impact very quickly, their desperation and fear has turned them to considering the idea a lot easier then usual.
Saint Naomi while unable to hurt anyone in the dream realm definitely tried. The instant An Lanh Tien tried to mess with her she was able to resist it. Her zealotry is rooted deeply enough even her sleeping subconscious turns to “purge the heretics” pretty quickly. Unfortunately due to the stipulation that you chose the door not 1500 points of dream realm, she doesn’t enter the dream realm every night so sleep deprivation isn’t getting far. However…Eret’s guardian Naberius who heard about this project has brought a point to your attention. Naberius’ power is to steal the memories of people, entirely. If you could bring him to Naomi or Naomi to him (or really anyone at all) he can remove everything. Instead of breaking her faith, Naberius can just make her forget who she is and what she stands for. Though that would involve capturing her alive and physically.
The dream world prison is created. This took all of 10 seconds, now if only you had some prisoners.
Rest of the shit:
The army begins marching. This is a long trip to make on foot with so many people, will be a little while. The Divya fleet is also still moving, same problem as the other army, takes forever to get around when you are in large numbers. Amaterasu has been having secret meetings with Ra and Lucifer in Song Yi’s absence.
Aphrodite has redirected herself to Thykenae to offer them sanctuary, though the rest of her apostles are still in Ofrior. Some Ofrior clans have been contacted, Freyja and her high prophet offered to fight for the black pantheon if they gave actual sanctuary as deep as Kagayakashi for the crippled nation. As it turns out they heard about the paladins, and are distinctly aware that they may be next on the chopping block considering they tried to invade Divus recently. They’d really rather not be alone in small clans out in the snow when, as the prophet revealed to the apostle of Aphrodite, Saint Sarah has the power to find and locate people. Thor’s followers are a bit more stubborn, the rest haven’t been found yet.
Zeus however gave aphrodite a warning to take back to Amaterasu and by proxy the rest of you. There are seven paladins, and now that Jehovah has gotten serious they have real champion blessings instead of just a fancy weapon. But if Jehovah gives up his illusion entirely about the worlds limitations and his crew, his pantheon has a few hidden gods within it he has never revealed from his “holy kingdom”. Zeus, Shenlong, Ryujin, Brahma, and Odin know about it, but have never seen anything relating to them. No one knows what they do or what Jehovah is hiding.
Shade brought back important intel about Dyaus Pita’s latest advancements. Ships that fly through the air instead of sea, armed with the cannons the Divya navy is famous for but now not restricted to sea. The protoype was recently finished and they’ve started mass production.
Doi Cho Len has started to move its population inland and northward to avoid the potential damage of the ships assault given Vithanyalai is likely a major target alongside Co So.