(I don't have Tim's or Eric's email address, feel free to pass this along.) On Tuesday: - A plan was floated to bypass the blucite pressure wave/scanning wave: tunnel out parallel to the wave and turn back, and hope the wave didn't progress. - It was discovered that tunnelling wasn't possible, because the edges of the cavern were the edges of that reality - A new plan was put into effect: Evacuation - Janus went in to find out why his army hadn't been blucited. Answer: the pictsies seem to be immune to bluciting. We don't know why. - Carolan was passed through a Trump contact from Cagliostro to Janus, and opened a magical gate back for evacuation to a spot four shadows over from the Assassin's Guild. The Chaosian guilds and the pictsies were evacuated ahead of another blucite scanning wave. - The gate stayed open despite Cagliostro's and Carolan's attempts to close it. Rainbow shifted into Caelin (with two universes of magic inside him) and Carolan used that to shut down the gate and give the gate-hold-opener a good jab in the eye. According to Rainbow, that was a minion holding the gate open. - Cagliostro builds a model of Pride's Folly from a schematic in Johnny's memory, and from studying this the group theorizes that the Enemy can access everything she needs from the remote terminals, and has probably used the remote terminals to set up a killzone around the main computer lab (which is the only point to gain access to the remote terminals). - Cagliostro suggested tripping the trap that Kintanti almost triggered earlier, and this involved a lot of work and research by Kintani, Orm, and the Archivist. - The attack plan went into action with five prongs: - #1, a lobotomized dragon hunted in, and presumably was subverted. Something attacked the dragon channel itself afterwards, and was soulgrabbed by Kintani using kraken power. Princess Chandra arrives to follow up on this, and pulls Marial onto the Serpent's head. - #2, Janus and the rescaled 6' pictsies went to Pride's Folly. They seem to be doing all right, and are ripping out the ceiling in the lab tunnels, opening the lab to the sky and setting that lab area to the outside rules (powers work). They are encountering resistance that is mostly not-Jean. - #3, Carolan and a force of Dzur with a Dragon commander (who has Dragon blood, Kintani can smell) charge in with another force. The Dzur get beaten up pretty badly, and Carolan contacts Cagliostro for reinforcements. (Among other things, Carolan is getting attacked by a pack of shard hounds, but all he can figure out is that people are dying messily by falling apart.) After waffling a bit, Cagliostro implements Plan Ifrit. Rainbow (upon request) helps by amping the mystic inertia of the ifrit generators. When the ifrit are passed through, Carolan discovers that the ifrit exponential generation works in the valley above Pride's Folly, so he has an infinite amount of reinforcements. - #4, the Warrior's Guild are outside and have made the least progress of anyone. Cyndia, when contacted by Trump, is wildly overoptimistic to the point of delusion. Between her hints and speculation as to 'what does it mean when the eyes on the card are red', it is inferred that the Enemy is eavesdropping this conversation. - In related news, Darkstar is in Osric's pocket, keeping a very low profile. - #5, Geryon and Snarsht are doing the sneakybastard thing in Pride's Folly. Snarsht has borrowed sneakiness from Rainbow and memory manipulation from Cagliostro, and is playing hell with Jean's memory every time they encounter a Jean. - Jean is occasionally sobering up and requiring some fresh drug infusions or alterations from Random. Jean has not yet sobered up long enough to wonder why this is going on. - Princess Chandra has been told about Cagliostro's mental connection with Cemen, and has assassins on standby to kill Cagliostro if he gets compromised through the Enemy tracking things back. - Ilk has been called off to help Verra "recharge her power battery" (as the kids are calling it these days), swapping with another Ilk. - Dr. Eagleton has been requested, to help work with Osric crystal power.