Gate-of-Gods-Timeline

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Pre-Chronicle

  • May 14, 1896: Master Kang Lu receives a dream-vision of the mage he is to take as his apprentice, and discovers that he won't be born until the late 1900s. So, he prepares a set of scenarios, and a handful of clues to lead the young mage to view those scenarios post-cognitively.
  • 1897: The Tri Ptitsy take over the Hotel Regina from Master Kang Lu.
  • 1902: Master Kang Lu dies of old age. He is buried in a beautiful tomb in the Babylon Gardens Cemetery.
  • 1904: The Columbia Consilium is founded, uniting the Awakened of Astoria, Warrenton and Seaside, OR, and Chinook and Ilwaco, WA, with Lady Alkanost of the Tri Ptitsy as the Hieararch.
  • November 2009: The Portland cabal Magnum Opus awakens their apprentices, bid them to form a cabal and then sends them out of Portland. They do not explain the mysterious circumstances, but do give them an objective: secure the powerful Hallow in the Hotel Regina in Old Town Astoria.

Season One

Arc One: Winter's Rest

Downtime

  • February 2010 - Early March 2010

Arc Two: Spring Awakenings

Downtime

Arc Three: Summer Storms

Arc Four: Autumn Hallows

Episode Fourteen

Session One (12.10.11)

  • Autumn summons Madam Sirin, but she can't really tell us anything other than that her cabal was eventually destroyed by contact with the Regina, gradually succumbing to paranoia and madness.
  • While Autumn is talking to the dead, Rasayana boosts his, Issa's, and Malachite's academic ability. Cue research montage. We learn that we must gather the Astral Regalia of the Queen of Heaven in order to enact the banishing ritual, which must be done before the Queen of Heaven completes her chrysalis. The Astral Regalia are:
    • A piece of the Ishtar Gate, in Babylon. This must be imbued with the "Heart of Murder" - the moment in which an ancient queen of Babylon, Ishtar, sacrifices her beloved king, Tammuz on the altar to Erishkigal of the Underworld. This requires Death or Life to steal.
    • An old Egyptian khopesh, from the British Museum. This must be imbued with the "Tears of the River" - the moment of great sadness in which Isis loses Aser (Osiris), as he is cut to pieces by Sutekh. This requires Fate or Mind to steal.
    • An ancient distaff from Norse times, made of ash, in a museum in Norway. This must be imbued with the "Moment of Unity" - the moment in which Frika is given a vision of Ragnarok while she is at her spinning wheel, while about her stars spin. This requires Space or Time to steal.
    • The chalice used by the Pope in High Communion. This must be imbued with the "Joy of Annunciation" - moment of ineffable joy in which Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will bear the son of God. This requires Prime or Matter to steal.
    • Yata no Kagami, a mirror from Naiku, the inner shrine of Amaterasu in Honshu, Japan. This must be imbued with the "Birth of the Sun" - the moment in which a man emerges from the Underworld, weeping, and dips his hands into the sea to purify himself upon his return. As the water pours down his head, gods are born - the moon from the water that falls from his right eye, the sun (Amaterasu) from the water that falls from his left. This requires Forces or Spirit to steal.
  • Malachite secretly does some research into the Path of Befouling and finds out about the serious downside.
  • While we're in the middle of our research, the Abbot walks in with Kramer, who we last saw after he was exposed as a traitor and Seer spy. There is something about him that sets off our Unseen Senses. It's like what we felt when we saw the dogs being unmade.
  • As we try to decide what to do about Kramer, our Unseen Senses are triggered again, much stronger this time. There is something deep in the library stacks, something Abyssal.
  • Issa and Malachite go to investigate. The thing turns out to be an Abyssal creature that was created when Kramer's betrayal was unmade.
  • Serafina joins us about now, nearly running into Kramer as she enters the library. She and Rasayana decide to put Kramer on ice until we can determine if he's still a traitor. They then join us in the stacks to confront the Abyssal.
  • The creature is called the Prince in Tatters. He offers to remove the geas that prevents us from returning to Portland. His price is a betrayal for a betrayal. We turn him down. He says that if we should change our minds, Malachite will know how to find him. He tells Malachite that he is already “on the path.”
  • Serafina decides to summon the Luminous to ask for help and goes outside to do so. When it appears, it immediately tries to possess her. It can sense the Abyssal taint of the mana within her, and it wants to purge that taint.
  • Serafina resists the Luminous, telling it that she needs the taint to remember what she's fighting. It insists, saying that they cannot have any interaction until she is cleansed. It eventually overpowers her and purges all Abyssal taint from her mana and her tass. She promptly forgets everything.
  • She and the Luminous have a conversation in her head. It teaches her how to summon Supernal beings. It also tells her that she needs to retrieve Ophelia's soul, which is currently adrift in the river where she drowned.
  • She can't see the rest of us when we go looking for her. Issa shoves a piece of Abyssal tass into her mouth, and she can see us again.
  • Serafina stays at the abbey to research supernal beings she could potentially summon. The rest of us head back to Qurbani's house.
  • Malachite studies Qurbani's Hallow to learn the oblation. He finds that this Hallow isn't generating mana, either. Damn it.
  • Malachite sends Danny off to Vegas until everything blows over. He also contacts Sam and tells her not to come to Astoria until he gives her the all clear. He e-mails her a copy of his will.
  • Issa apportates the Pope's chalice and the Egyptian khopesh that we need.
  • Issa goes to check on various people we care about and warn them to get out of town. The Bruides, like mages, cannot see him. He can't find Olivia St. Jordan. When he goes to Casey and Esmer's tattoo parlor, he finds that the shop no longer exists.
  • Sophie is there though Casey and Esmer are not. Sophie is possessed by something. A grotesque black maw has erupted on her back. Issa calls Malachite and Rasayana for back up.

Episode Fifteen

Session One (12.19.11)

  • The Abyssal creature possessing Sophie attempts a mental attack against Issa, but he resists.
  • Issa uses Space to trap the Abyssal until Malachite and Rasayana arrive. The thing keeps trying to attack him and failing.
  • Rasayana severs the bonds between the Abyssal and Sophie, and the thing disappears with a wail, leaving behind only an intricate, swirling tattoo.
  • Issa sends Sophie to her sister in Africa.
  • Autumn next summons his mentor Kang Lu.
  • Kang Lu isn't able to tell Autumn much about the Regina or the Queen of Heaven. He does know something about the Secret Order of the Gate, which are a group of Abyssal cultists. They have a method of travel that involves using liminal places where the Fallen World touches the Abyss. It sounds like what we've seen the Babylon pylon do.
  • Kang Lu says that we may be able to receive “help most dangerous” from the Seers, namely Auctorita. He also tells Autumn about the Path of Befouling.
  • Rasayana teaches us all the Banishment of the Queen of Heaven. Serafina teaches us all Supernal summoning. Autumn teaches us all the Path of Befouling, except for Malachite who already knew it and hadn't shared.
  • Issa portals to the Ishtar Gate to tear off a chunk, leaving us with only the distaff in Norway and the mirror in Naiku to retrieve.
  • Serafina and Rasayana go after Ophelia's soul. They get help from the Columbia Maiden, the spirit of the Columbia River. In return, the Maiden asks that we try to change the ley line flowing through the river, because it is binding her and slowly changing her. They promise that we will try, and she says that's all she can ask.
  • The Columbia Maiden finds Ophelia's soul, and Serafina stores it in her soul jar.
  • Because the distaff is in a Mysterium athenaeum, Autumn has to go after it. Issa, Malachite, and Mitchell go with him.
  • Through the power of hand-wavium, we get in and out of the athenaeum with no problem and head back to Astoria, distaff in hand.

Episode Sixteen

Session One (1.14.12)

Episode Seventeen

Session One (2.4.12)

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