Tinderbox: S02E06: Diene 16-18th, 1870

General Summary

The Days Before

The Townhouse

Theo Osborne is told by Countess Morgana Cornelia Selina Beaumont about the house she rented for him and Phineas and they discuss .... relationships.

Lancelot's Dealings

Theo Osborne informs Priscilla Philomena Modesty Featherstone about his findings about Lancelot Cole Longhurst

• He has recently got involved with CPL
• He is single now, He had a recently fallen off affair with Lady Zoey Tressaue
• He can be found very often to Annabel's on the 2nd and 3rd

They too, discussed about relationships... it was even worse.

16th Diene

Priscilla Philomena Modesty Featherstone meets with Eliza Hartwell and Arielle the Krates Priest

After a short discussion with Eliza and a game of cards, Arielle arrives, checks on Eliza and kisses her on the lips.

On the Practices of Krates

Arielle will confirm to Priscilla that normally Krates Priestesses travel in pairs, and as part of that, that her teachers has recently past away, which leaves her alone.

She will also confirm that Priestesses travel across lands disregarding borders, where there is need for them.

On Acquiring Abilities

On the subject of people acquiring abilities, she will confirm that them (Krates) as well as others do have ways of acquiring said abilities. She will not reveal the apocryphal knowledge of how they do but will tell her about the fact that in the Yun Sacred Empire under the precede of the Yun Imperial Cult there are monasteries/schools that people receive the Mark of the Phoenix (this is not common knowledge).

The Black Material

Priscialla and Arielle discuss the Black material, Arielle tells her that she has done a little bit of searching (not defining how or what) and as part of that she talks to her about an incident bearing some similarities to what occurred that involved a Black Material / substance that was extracted by local shamans in the Island of Alpenward. The priestesses were summoned there to help with the catastrophic outcome that it had. The Shamans used this substance as a concoction to strengthen some people (She did not define what / who / why). These people had the concoction inserted into their eyes, their eyes have initially got blacked but then turned yellow. The people that were given it, got insane and started hurting themselves and attacking/killing other people. Arielle does not disclose the involvement of the Krates there but she does say that all of them died. Before Priscilla leaves, she tells her that the location that this was in Alpenward was the Tryst Cave system

17th Diene

Theo Osborne and Phineas I. Corwen date

• The dream of Phineas
• Dinner at Benito's and getting to know Benitto Magianelli
• Part for the Music Box at Solspire Market
• Sweets at the South Market
• Smoothies by the Wall

The Bookstore

As part of their date the two visit the Codworth Bookstore in Stormwatch District There they meet with Librarian Theodora Tinen and they visit the reliquary, a hidden room at the very bottom of the multi floored bookstore. In there they find and talk about the "Of Tribes and Gods" a hand written and illuminated vellum book by the Monks of Temur. The book is written before The Burn in what is now the craggy shores of Grimvald (second largest body mass remaking) the book is priced at 335.000 Qs

The Gifted Book

Phineas I. Corwen buys Theo Osborne the "The Ruins of Amur" history book.

18th Diene

The team learns about the fact that 30 of the "coffin" like containers have been packed and moved from the underground construction site to Warehouse 13 on Pier 6 of the Barrogate Small commercial port outlet. The also learn that the whole of Pier 6 is rented by a company called MossTech from the 19th to the 24th of Diene.

The team decides that they should split up in order to gather more information

• Theo Osborne and Phineas I. Corwen with Commander Artemis Ashton and Francine Weatherhorn will head to the Pier
• Countess Morgana Cornelia Selina Beaumont, Captain Maximus Orion Hawkes and Sergeant Kyle Thomson will head to Frostring Corporation HQ in Etherdrift Island to get the plans to the Underground Barrogate Island base
• Priscilla Philomena Modesty Featherstone will head to the same HQ to acquire "Contacts" within the company