Right! The turtle! 

And the queen, rakshasa, and wizard were all in the middle of a power struggle.

That too. Okay, so, our list of loose ends: 

1) do something about the Arkonas

2) do something about the turtle

3) resolve the power struggle

4) ...?

Do something about the shadows.

You're not wrong. 

That committee never did come to any kind of resolution.

5) do something about the shadows

6 - get the phase door set up.

#7, take Barry shopping for armor.

Number eight: Cressida Kroft wanted to get a commune to ask about us, oh, related thing, I don't know if I mentioned this, but in-universe the explanation for why we're peculiar has to be supernatural, it's suppressed by antimagic. Anyway, I should loop in Field Marshall with message. 

Message isn't secure comms, don't say anything you don't want overheard.

Okay, so, number eight is getting a private audience with Cressida Kroft, because she's going to have a bunch of priorities we've clean forgotten about. 

What order should we attack this in... different problems will need different sets of people on them, and I think we learned last session that too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the soup, and there's a whole social encounter to disentangle...

Can we just say that we're being methodical about it in-character?

What do you mean?

The order we address things at the table doesn't need to be the order our characters address them in-universe. If we realize that we forgot to do the one thing before the something else, we can just say that we would have done it in the sensible order instead, and let our characters figure out all the finicky scheduling details.

The Most High Arch Megapope Olin Mull flashes a beatific smile beneath his glowing halo and hangdog eyes. "I think they're as oriented as they're likely to get," he tells her, "and the rest seems up to us."

He's audibly amused but there's something in his demeanor which is different.

It takes Kroft moment to put her finger on it; it's a hard thing to notice.

She had taken Olin Mull this morning for a jovial man by disposition, saddened by events, putting on a glad face.

Now all she can tell with confidence is that he's wearing the same glad face.

So I guess I want to skip ahead to when we get the Field Marshall alone and see what she'll have to say then, provisionally, unless something that has to happen before then chronologically contradicts it.

Cressida Kroft (provisionally) unbuckles her sheathed sword from her belt so it won't interfere with (provisionally) collapsing into her chair with the heaviest of sighs. One of the great things about not wearing gauntlets is that it makes it easy to close your eyes and pinch the bridge of your nose. The room is (provisionally) small, but (provisionally) private - it's just her and the four anomalies. "Thank you for your help out there," she begins, and continues through with a list of things they (provisionally) helped with.

"We badly need to talk."

THESE ARE THE MOST PECULIAR MENTAL PROCESSES SHE'S EVER BEEN PRIVY TO.

...Toff Ornelos is coming around to that point of view.

Uh.

Otolmens does NOT like this AT ALL. 

There are ALREADY ENOUGH inconsistencies in the timeline without threatening the creation of MORE.

I wanted to say that our weirdness is suppressed by an antimagic field which means it definitely has an explanation in-universe other than sheer coincidence and ask about the status on that commune. 

Thanks for telling me about the antimagic field, I'm not sure how that effects my thinking or planning yet but it seems like the sort of detail that somehow will. (In fact, do me a favor and message it to me in the present? Just "I found that the antimagic field suppressed my cognitive enhancement in all its respects" will do.)

I'm (provisionally) assuming that we can't do a commune today, because Zenobia Zenderholm will have used that slot raising Salgar Irevotnin from the dead. 

(And 1d2 = 1, 1d2 = 1, Salgar will have retained both of his prepared teleports, which will have exceeded expectations.)

That'll certainly be good to hear! In the future when he hears it.

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