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 ======Session 9====== ======Session 9======
  
-This session was played on 24/08/2025. Instead of the adventures of the usual party, it followed three rigasian convicts ([[pc:Antonio Vargas]], [[pc:Zoé Curie]] and [[pc:Steve]]) that volunteered to help in timeline exploration to commute their sentences.+This session was played on 2025-08-24. Instead of the adventures of the usual party, it followed three rigasian convicts ([[pc:Antonio Vargas]], [[pc:Zoé Curie]] and [[pc:Steve]]) that volunteered to help in timeline exploration to commute their sentences.
  
 ======Plot====== ======Plot======
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 In the [[place:Braufliss]] military base, Antonio, Zoé and Steve meet and are briefed as to what their exploration work will consist in, and what kind of people they should look for. Their iconoclast personalities clash with the attitude of the drill sergeant and results in Antonio getting a bit of a beating. In the [[place:Braufliss]] military base, Antonio, Zoé and Steve meet and are briefed as to what their exploration work will consist in, and what kind of people they should look for. Their iconoclast personalities clash with the attitude of the drill sergeant and results in Antonio getting a bit of a beating.
  
-After some training they are brought to one of the installations in the border of Braufliss Zone where they witness a Rigasian Timeline Gate opening and are sent through, with the reminder that the gate will only open for them to come back at daily intervals for a week.+After some training they are brought to one of the installations in the border of Braufliss [[thing:Zone]] where they witness a Rigasian [[thing:Portal]] opening and are sent through, with the reminder that the gate will only open for them to come back at daily intervals for a week.
  
 On the other side of the gate, they find themselves in a West-African plain and they commence exploration. After several hours of walking they find first a human path, then some farmland and finally a couple of travelers leading a camel with goods along the road. Despite not having any language in common they manage to join the travelers in their path. On the other side of the gate, they find themselves in a West-African plain and they commence exploration. After several hours of walking they find first a human path, then some farmland and finally a couple of travelers leading a camel with goods along the road. Despite not having any language in common they manage to join the travelers in their path.
  
-They witness quite a lot of other people as they travel, including a full-on caravan that seems to be passing through and finally reach a town where they separate from the two travelers and whose market they explore. Sadly most of the food stalls seem to be taking payment in the form of salt, but then a strange laughing woman calls them out and throws a small pouch of salt to them.+They witness quite a lot of other people as they travel, including a full-on caravan that seems to be passing through and finally reach a town where they separate from the two travelers and whose market they explore, where they are amazed at seeing an anagusi wolf rider walking the street. Neither the rider or the wolf seem to like seeing them though, and they detour to avoid passing next to them. 
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 +Sadly most of the food stalls seem to be taking payment in the form of salt, but then a strange laughing woman calls them out and throws a small pouch of salt to them. 
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 +As they are finishing their food, the laughing woman approaches them and tells them in heavily accented Gotthos that there's going to be [[event:rigasia_kesizma_war|war between Rigasia and Kesizma]] and that they should get back home as soon as possible if they don't want to be caught in the middle. This sparks a discussion between Zoé and Steve who want to return to Rigasia and earn their freedom, and Antonio, who doesn't want to ever see the inside of a rigasian prison and would rather desert and stay here. They split paths. 
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 +The next day, Antonio is woken up by the laughing woman, who again tries to convince him to go back to Rigasia, and failing that, reveals to him that she is trapped in a time loop and he needs to go back and die to prevent the world from being unmade. Antonio tries to argue and comfort the woman, but refuses to fight her and she kills him. 
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 +Zoé and Steve try to go back to the portal point but discover that the markers they left have been moved and they ended somewhere else. The laughing woman reveals herself to them too, and again explains the time loop. Zoé and Steve defend themselves, though. Zoé tries to shoot her, but the gun fails to fire. Steve is more successful by using his minor teleportation gift, managing to teleport a small needle inside the woman's head. This enrages her and she telekinetically directs her double-ended lance to slice Steve open. 
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 +Antonio wakes up in a memory of his parent's farmhouse where he meets a different version of the laughing woman, who presents herself as Ariyadna and tells him that the version he met while alive has been killing everyone that she considers an obstacle to the completion of the time loop, including versions of herself that do not comply with the plan. The Ariyadna in the Great Dream has since been following her path and fashioning an afterlife of sorts for those that she has killed, as she awaits for her wicked sister to finally bit more that she can chew.
  
  
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   * **Sergeant**: What did you say? I didn't hear "yes, sir" there.   * **Sergeant**: What did you say? I didn't hear "yes, sir" there.
-  * **Antonio**: Estás Pendejo, Sir!+  * **Antonio**: Estás pendejo, Sir!
  
   * **Operator**: We'll open this way eight times, once every twenty four hours. So to come back you need to be at the same place at the same time one day during the next week. Keep track of the place and of the time because we can't keep track of your position. Usually basic exploration is completed in three days or so, but we keep this open for a full week; after that time we assume you can't come back and stop trying.   * **Operator**: We'll open this way eight times, once every twenty four hours. So to come back you need to be at the same place at the same time one day during the next week. Keep track of the place and of the time because we can't keep track of your position. Usually basic exploration is completed in three days or so, but we keep this open for a full week; after that time we assume you can't come back and stop trying.
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   * **Antonio**: W---What do you mean second time?   * **Antonio**: W---What do you mean second time?
   * **Ariyadna**: I mean second time; I'm caught in the circle and I have to ensure that things go the same way so we don't stop existing!   * **Ariyadna**: I mean second time; I'm caught in the circle and I have to ensure that things go the same way so we don't stop existing!
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 +  * **Antonio**: …Well, can I make a request? If I have to die anyway… somehow tell my pa I love him please? Don't want him knowing I'm gone forever.
  
   * **Ariyadna**: One day I will find one of you people and they won't ask that; six thousand days of giving the same explanation.   * **Ariyadna**: One day I will find one of you people and they won't ask that; six thousand days of giving the same explanation.
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   * //And then she goes still because Steve teleported a needle inside her brain.//   * //And then she goes still because Steve teleported a needle inside her brain.//
  
 +  * **Ariyadna**: C'mon, your destiny awaits; it'll be fun. 
 ======Trivia====== ======Trivia======
  
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 Both Antonio's and Steve's players were feeling under the weather today so we took things a bit easier than usual. Both Antonio's and Steve's players were feeling under the weather today so we took things a bit easier than usual.
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 +Somehow Zoé made a reference to Ariadne's Thread before Ariyadna was even mentioned in the entire campaign. It made the storyteller stop for a moment.
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 +Antonio tended to swear in his native language a lot, represented here by spanish. Only… the actual spanish swearword is "puta" (whore), not "punta" (point). 
  
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