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+**This page is a work in progress.\\ Maybe you can help complete it?**
 ======Session 23======
-This session was played on 2025-11-30. [[pc:clark_dubois|Clark]], [[pc:gaia_dynko|Gaia]] and [[pc:maelle_kurimoto|Maelle]] experience a very long vision that raises more questions that it answers.
+This session was played on 2025-11-29. [[pc:clark_dubois|Clark]], [[pc:gaia_dynko|Gaia]] and [[pc:maelle_kurimoto|Maelle]] experience a very long vision that raises more questions that it answers.
 ======Plot======
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 Maelle wakes up inside the temple, being tended by someone that looks like Claire, but clearly isn't. Maelle recognizes the temple as some kind of shinto building, which puzzles them since they are pretty sure that Claire has never been in Nihon. The strange Claire-like woman tells her to stay there while she brings some food.
-The actual Claire then enters the temple to further confusion of both her and
+The actual Claire then enters the temple to further confusion of both her and Maelle. They talk for a moment, before the other Claire comes back.
-Maelle. They talk for a moment, before the other Claire comes back.
+On the top of the island, Gaia decides to try to use [[thing:The Glove]] to get a better look at things, and uses it first to look at the beach, where she sees an absurd multitude of people waking up on it as all the party members did, and then at the broken tower, where she witnesses the naked glory of Kassatol, the Endless Tower, behind it; and then the loudest version of //let me out// she has ever experienced. Trying to escape it she runs over the cliff…
+And falls into the temple where both Claires are looking at each other, Cloud Strife Style.
+After a bit of a scare from Claire and Maelle, who are worried about Gaia, and a bit of "tut-tutting" from the other Claire, who is offended at someone profaning the temple roof, Gaia proceeds to attempt to unravel what the fuck is happening here, identifies Other Claire as some kind of dream being linked to Regular Claire's ongoing transformation and notices that there's something behind Maelle. Something as big as AMANDA, taking up the entirety of the sky from very far away, and tapering off into a female-ish shape as designed by H. R. Giger.
+And then, young Riung comes into the temple, politely and according to every formal rule that might apply, including depositing a sizeable donation in the appropriate box.
 ======Cast======
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   * [[npc:Riung]]
   * [[npc:Yumiko Kurimoto]]
-  * [[npc:Ariyadna]] (the Merciful)
+  * [[npc:Ariyadna#merciful|Ariyadna (Merciful)]]
 ======Quotes======
-  * //You are in a beach; the sun is rising on north-by-northwest. Something is strange…//
+  * //You are in a beach; the sun is rising in the north-by-northwest. Something is strange…//
   * **Riung**: It's not perfect. It's not even good. But it's better than the alternative.
+  * **Claire**: About my situation…
+  * **Riung**: You dreamwalked into a memory of this temple, awakened your gift, and merged with an old goddess because you were incredibly compatible, then spent the next decade and a bit denying it?
+  * **Riung**: If the chance of a thing happening is one in a hundred that means that for every timeline where one happens, there are ninety-nine that don't. So in the event of the Umichooan empire breaking, even if the future you ended being the lucky one in the right timeline, there would be millions living in suffering.
+  * **Maelle**: Run, hide, whatever you can. Fight for yourself, dont let the fate of death loom over you for fuck's sake.
+  * **Riung**: There's nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. Not for a Keeper.
+  * **Ariyadna**: Doctor Ariyadna of Talos, of the Merciful, at your service.
+  * **Claire**: Hm. I'm sorry. Ariyadna?!
+  * **Gaia**: Ohh, another one?
+  * **Maelle**: What the fuck do you mean "Ariyadna"? How are you alive?!
+  * **Ariyadna**: And yes, I just learned that you are taking care of a mini-me. Freaky.
+  * **Maelle**: Not sure if this is insensitive at all but.. did you go with the Witch or…
+  * **Ariyadna**: Yea, I went with her, then she started dying before her time, of cancer. And could not heal herself. It was a very painful four years and got her to reconsider things.
   * **Ariyadna**: Let's get you some scrubs, and sanitize those hands, and prepare our minds for medicine. It'll be fun!
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 Apparently Riung is one of those people who can't avoid looking at themselves in mirrors. The problem is that her reflections react to it, and they seem to exchange glances.
+"//You are in a beach; the sun is rising in the north-by-northwest. Something is strange…//" is in fact the oldest line in the Clockmaker multiverse.
+The players have identified at least five possible Queens this session might make reference to:
+  * The Miko: The forgotten goddess that merged with Claire years ago
+  * The Renegade: The Renegade Dream Queen that forsook the Giver of Shapes
+  * The Keeper: Riung
+  * The Squirrel: The Dream Queen of Sun in the Rigasian Timeline
+  * The Witch: Queen-Witch in Exile Ariyadna of Talos