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--- session:24 [2025/12/08 18:05] – [Quotes] quirky
+++ session:24 [2025/12/09 00:23] (current) – [Trivia] quirky
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 Another car reaches up to Claire, and she joins [[npc:Ferret]] and [[npc:Iorena Sevel]] who were going to the party themselves. Iorena explains that the paparazzi have been bothering them quite a bit too; apparently it's one of the tabloids owned by [[npc:Antoine Motyl]] that are digging up as much dirt as they can in Iorena to discredit the political coalition to which she belongs.
-The birthday party continues with slices of cake and merriment, and finally a small core of the attendees go inside to open gifts in private. The last to be opened is a couple of beautiful wooden boxes containing white eggs, that Riung explains are actually full libraries with as much free information she has been able to scrounge around regarding the kind of beings that have been known to be patrons for dreamwalkers, as AMANDA and the Renegade seem to have become.
+The birthday party continues with slices of cake and merriment, but it reaches a point when Claire and Maelle are too overstimulated by the situation and they find each other taking a breath outside. The chat turns serious, with Maelle talking about some details of her backstory, including her not knowing what happened to Marine. They also compare fathers, which is mostly sad.
+Finally a small core of the attendees go inside to open gifts in private. The last to be opened is a couple of beautiful wooden boxes containing white eggs, that Riung explains are actually full libraries with as much free information she has been able to scrounge around regarding the kind of beings that have been known to be patrons for dreamwalkers, as AMANDA and the Renegade seem to have become.
 And then Gaia tries to ask Riung about the [[npc:Puppeteer]]. And the man himself appears in the middle of the Guildhouse, scaring everyone  half to death including Riung herself.
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   * **Maelle**: Oh, I won't tell her to not tell. It'll be funny to see what happens.
   * **Yumiko**: She is learning to push boundaries so it's going to be interesting either way.
+  * **Maelle**: Claire, this is my family: Ivan's the bear, Aleksey is the energetic kid and then Lotte is the one there.
+  * **Claire**: Bear? He doesn't seem that furry.
+  * **Maelle**: (resting her hand on Meiyo) If the blackcaps were in power… You know me, Ivan.
+  * **Ivan**: Yea, and that worries me a lot.
+  * **Maelle**: Aleksey… you are way too energetic.
+  * **Aleksey**: I'm not energetic, I'm bored! I had to sit on the train for hours!
+  * **Maelle**: (patting Derek) He's a bit small, dontchathink? Small boy.
+  * **Ivan**: (flabbergasted) Is this… Milo?
+  * **Riung**: Maelle Kurimoto, I congratulate you on the aniversary of your birth and hope you will live to see many more.
+  * **Maelle**: I'm not planning on dying soon so thanks! Also, could you help get this food into order? didn't know there would be this much.
+  * //…as Riung is moving to go to the table, Mariette comes in, and they look at each other. Which is probably the most uncomfortable meeting in the story of ever. Mariette is sweating bullets. Riung is expressionless. Gaia is a bit frozen too. Maelle is setting up the food and doesn't notice. Finally, Riung does a very deliberate short bow and nods to Mariette, then moves to the table.//
+  * **Mariette**: Hoooly shit. I was not expecting that today.
+  * **Gaia**: Sorry, person inviting you should have warned you pro---I'm the one who invited Riung late…
+  * **Mariette**: So, yummy food? I brought some interesting stuff that won't be invented until next century.
+  * **Mariette**: (after feeding several people some very capsaicin-rich stuff) There's this subculture in some futures where people have been making their tongues used to this thing so they started breeding even spicier ones.
+  * //Claire lies in the floor with a tummy ache.//
+  * //Claire tries to take a sip from a bottle offered by Mariette, but discovers it contains a powder.//
+  * **Mariette**: It's sodium bicarbonate. You know, for your regular stomach acid issues; not everything has to be superscience.
+  * **Iorena**: Damn straight I'm going [to the party]. even if I had to drown two secretaries and one gofer to get free.
+  * **Iorena**: You people are often seen with me so you can say goodbye to your private life because apparently if you're running for a government position, or related to someone who is, you don't have one.
+  * **Claire**: Maybe we should just give them what they want and asked them for a interview?
+  * **Iorena**: I have already given several of those, and then they start digging up shit. a lot of those assholes are bankrolled by Motyl, you know. I already had to defend my position because apparently I keep "bad company".
+  * **Iorena**: Me being a woman running for office is already problematic. mingling with people considered… less than wholesome is not doing me any favors.
+  * //Iorena got another thing made for both Gaia and Maelle: small plaques that says "you survived and he didn't" made from the knife she used to shank Vituska.//
+  * **Maelle**: I will hang this on my wall, Iorena. Thank you so much.
+  * **Riung**: As budding dreamwalkers, I thought that you needed to know many things that your people don't. so I put into these as much knowledge and stories as i could find regarding both //zuní// and //hyuní//, as the ones that have chosen to be your patrons.
+  * **Maelle**: It's not gonna have any dangerous implications then? Don't want anything happening to me.
+  * **Riung**: Maelle Kurimoto, you are trying to learn how to make use of a subtle machine older than our sun, by the memory of a being that is loathed by its creators, and that is capable of killing people with a thought. everything you do from here on has dangerous implications.
+  * **Maelle**: Shit.
+  * **Gaia**: Oh, Riung, by the way, have you heard of the Puppeteer?
+  * **Puppeteer**: (suddenly in the room, laughing the fakest laugh ever) Ha-haaaaa, when did the natives hear of me, lil'Riung?
+  * **Puppeteer**: You were asking about me. Which raises many, many questions. As in, how do you know my name?
+  * **Gaia**: (bullshitting like mad) I heard it from Vitsuka [sic].
+  * **Puppeteer**: Where is this Vituska person now, then? I might have //questions// for them.
+  * **Maelle**: In the graveyard, I assume? He died.
+  * **Puppeteer**: Hmmmmmmmm… Okay! (vanishes)
+  * **Gaia**: I'm so sorry Riung, I had no idea that would happen.
+  * **Riung**: (barely shaking) Apology accepted, you clearly did not know. But I believe that it would be prudent for me to leave… and for you to not raise the attention of certain people.
+  * **Maelle**: Who was that?
+  * **Riung**: That is a man who can decide our deaths on a whim.
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   * Your robes are touching the ground
   * I know what you did (which is quite the strong threat, frankly)
+The day after the birthday party, several of Motyl's publications roasted it by either weaving a conspiracy theory where Iorena was leading Umichooan diplomats to conspire with deviants, they were exposing a number of children (that are not even biologically theirs) to "undue and deleterious influences", and many other such fun "alternative facts".