Episode Eight: Puppet Strings

Session One (8.6.11)

• About a month has passed since we rescued Tanya Clark and witnessed her Awakening.
• Tanya tells us that the angels she saw during her Awakening told her she could trust us. They also told her that “she is coming,” the same thing the Abyssal creature hissed at us as it died.
• We have an extended discussion about the best thing to do for Tanya. Autumn casts several spells to divine her future and sees that her best chance for a balanced, well-adjusted life is for our cabal to raise her while Aquinas oversees her magical training. We settle on that idea, at least for now. Since he's the most respectable of us, Rasayana will become her legal guardian, at least on paper.
• Autumn and Serafina get into an hours-long argument/debate about Tanya and their different opinions/methods of how to look out for her.
• Rasayana does a terrible job of picking out clothes for Tanya. Issa and Malachite fix that by using Matter to change the colors of the clothes. Tanya picks the new colors based on flowers and plants out in the garden. She, Malachite, and Issa have a blast doing that. Malachite has never had so much fun using magic.
• Malachite and Issa stay busy spoiling the hell out of Tanya, probably trying to make up for their own crappy childhoods. They take her shoe shopping and end up practically buying out a florist and a toy store, too. Danny also gets in on the game, planning out an elaborate play room for the kid.
• Rasayana ends up having to be the disciplinarian, setting up bedtimes and chores and other boundaries for Tanya.
• Serafina spends some time exploring the ley lines around Astoria.
• Autumn asks Issa to scry for his friend Pan, because he and Ms. Blacklace have taken too long to arrive. Issa can't locate him anywhere.
• Autumn asks Issa to take him to San Francisco so he can post-cog Pan and Ms. Blacklace and retrace their steps. He sees them opening a portal into the Underworld.
• Ms. Blacklace told Autumn about a group of her kind in New Orleans, so he gets Issa to send him there in hopes of getting in touch with them and asking for help.
• In New Orleans, Autumn sees several Prime sigils, one for the Garden District Consilium and one for the 9th Ward. There is apparently some rivalry there, as the 9th Ward has crossed out some of the Garden District's sigils and replaced them with their own.
• There are a number of strange, masked ghosts wandering around the Twilight of New Orleans. They watch Autumn intently, but do not molest him.
• Autumn catches a cab into the 9th Ward, and the driver warns him that he won't be able to catch a ride back.