On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 08:56:38PM -0400, A Page in the Life of ... wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 01:08, Sam Gorton wrote:
> > I hate to do this, but it looks like I'm going to be in upstate NY 
> > next Tuesday and in South Carolina the Tuesday after that.
> > 
> > At this point, we're all remote PCs. ;)
> 
> Indeed.  What are your remote actions, then?

Jean:  Keep Norton moving in a putting-together-and-reanimating 
corpses direction.  Use Jeremiah to fill in any major gaps caused by 
loss of sanity.

If I see any sign of the son of Gerard, warn the assassin's guild.  
(Keep the Dancer's guild informed that they should keep an eye out for 
him, but consider him quite dangerous.)

Cagliostro: 

> Any strategies to deal with your daughter?

Hm - mostly time.  It would be good if they could find something to 
work together on, either as a collaboration, something he could teach 
her, or the other way around.

One thing that might be of interest to her (and is to Cagliostro) is 
whether Cobalt is suffering from the lack of birds and fishes as other 
places is.
 
> Any interest in the spiral?

The Spiral has caused a large interrupt in Caglistro's plans -
basically, he's just gotten wrapped up on it to the exclusion of other
thoughts.  I (Sam) assume it's a fantastically intricate magical
working, of a scale previously unconcieved by Cagliostro.

He's very interested in:
1) What the Spiral actually does (the end result of the working)
2) How it was put together (what techniques can he learn or study 
later)

The time pressure comes from Cagliostro being fascinated and not sure 
how long the net will stay on.  If he finds out that the net is a 
longer term thing, the obsession level will ratchet down.  But he's 
too obsessed to ask. ;)

> What are your plans?

1) Determine what can be understood about the Spiral with the net in 
its current place
2) Try to convince someone to shift the net so the other parts of the 
Spiral become visible (the amoutn covered by net is hopefully a fairly 
small fraction of the total spiral)
3) Check in with people who are healing - Roland, Tate, etc.
4) Spend time with daughter, hopefully working together on some 
project (peppered with colorful and charming Cagliostro stories.)

Cagliostro's going to continue to duck calls from his demons - he's 
wants to try to figure out what their relationship is, and what holes 
exist in his memory first.

If a rapport can be established, that memory issue might be something 
else that Cagliostro would want to talk to his daughter about - but 
he's got old reflexes against admitting weakness and ignorance.