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 ======Session 22======
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 ======Plot======
-The day after the [[session:21|previous session]], a meeting is hosted in the Hunter Guildhouse to try to put the information about [[pc:Mariette Navia]]'s attempt on [[npc:Riung]]'s life.
+The day after the [[session:21|previous session]], a meeting is hosted in the Hunter Guildhouse to try to put the information about [[pc:Mariette Navia]]'s attempt on [[npc:Riung]]'s life: Gaia gets to explain her daring bringing Mariette to the Umichooan Embassy and earning a favor from [[npc:Oi-See Gauda]].
+They also learn that after almost twenty years, [[event:Valtshoran Elections|Valtshora is organizing actual elections]]. Of course that means that there are already several political parties that none of the characters would touch with a ten-foot pole, including one being push forward by [[npc:Antoine Motyl]] himself, but alas…
+[[npc:Iorena Sevel]] then asks Claire if now that her handle in her "condition" seems to be better, she would be amenable to trying to unfreeze [[npc:Zach Shpak]]. Claire reluctantly agrees, and [[npc:Sozaya]] mentions that he managed to bring a medical specialist from [[org:The Merciful]] that can handle the mortal wound.
+The issue is that trains coming from the east, especially those that bring important medical supplies to [[place:Valtshora]], are being increasingly targeted by [[place:Rigasia|Rigasian]] saboteurs, so the party will be brought to protect it.
+In the week between the meeting and the actual train ride, the party gets prepared: Claire makes arrangements to bring Derek, requesting an additional train car be added to accommodate it, then both of them survey the rail line noting possible points of ambush. Some other more extreme ideas by Claire are vetoed because no one wants the actual people who has to be in the train to accidentally trigger a fragmentation grenade.
+Maelle does their own investigations, and studies instead the trends about Rigasian attacks in transports for the Free Valtshoran country, which have indeed increased as time goes on; they discover, though, that since Umichooans interceded in the [[event:Rigasia/Kesizma War]], Rigasians have withdrawn most of their heavy tank units from outside their territory, and are depending now on lighter war machines and sabotage. Maelle also starts digging around for ways they can learn dreamwalking.
+Gaia herself decides that this is a good time to hone her dreamwalking skills and tries to talk to AMANDA about it, but ends more confused than anything else. According to AMANDA, there are two main ways to go about intruding in someone else's dreams: an intrusive one where you impose your will in them, and a cooperative one where you learn to dream together as one. Apparently Gaia is more interested in the former.
 ======Cast======
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 ======Quotes======
+  * **Gaia**: I called you here because the next umichoo meeting is coming and there has been a lot of stuff happening, so I wanted to everyone to be on the same page.
+  * **Ferret**: Technically, Iorena called us; but sure.
+  * **Sozaya**: You should be very careful with umichooan favors. Don't try to cash them if they are angry with you, because a lot of them will not hesitate to break the spirit of the favor.
+  * **Mariette**: There's a tiny thinking machine in my portal setup, that has to memorize you to unbuild you then rebuild you on the other side. It can do humans, no problem, could easily port a simple building. but try to gate something like a Macodelian and it will fail because those people are very complicated inside, they are full of super machines and such.
+  * **Claire**: But, would you still be the same person on the other side? or just a copy remade from it?
+  * **Mariette**: Fun fact: there's no difference between both things.
+  * **Maelle**: Just a quick small question, if their name is Zach wouldn't that mean they're.. not a woman? Just curious if it's more appropriate to refer to them as a man or something
+  * **Iorena**: I… guess we can ask… her… when we manage to unfreeze… her?
+  * **Claire**: Don't they have better cats to whip, with Kesizma and all that?
+  * **Gaia**: Why would you whip a cat!?
+  * //Iorena has nice things to say about the [political party] that's trying to copy some neat stuff from zhongguo, even if she thinks they are very naive. She has very bad things to say about the one that's being bankrolled by Motyl, and about the one who wants a Rigasian alliance and to kick Kesizma out, and the one that is blackcaps with the serial numbers filed off.//
 ======Trivia======
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 Chronomancers do not open portals big enough to move something through it, thank you very much: they open microportals only big enough to pass a tiny stream of matter through them, then disintegrate themselves and reincorporate on the other side, which apparently makes the system a lot less of a power hog, but requires computers light years beyond what the Rigasian Timeline can handle.
+Iorena's brain gears are figuratively smoking from the effort of keeping everyone's pronouns straight. Which might be the wrong way of going about it, since straight people are in very short demand.
 The Rigasian Agents from the Paranormal Foundation are the first instance of the players ever meeting an opposed party of the same level as them.