• 02:06:18 Ashley chooses to Lay on Hands for 70 hit points and additionally has a Cure Disease built in.
• 02:06:54 BLeeM: Do you want to reach to this power now? The last time you embraced your power deeply (to try to work a miracle) was to give a chance at redemption to the Lord of the Hells (Asmodeus, currently played by Father Milo). The last time you reached deeply for power, it was to attempt to understand and heal a being that insisted it wished to know only pain. The ruin and chaos that came after that shattered a part of you. You see this child struggling to breathe and you see a proud archmage of Aeor, whose vast intellect commands the very edges of reality who cannot help her child. She clutches a symbol of everlasting light (Laura smiles at the Everlight reference) and the devotion that comes from her hands as she says,
  “Please, please, please if anything is possible, let this be possible.”
  Walking down the hallway, light fills the hall. Arcadia keeps her eyes wide open and forces her pupils to dilate so that she can know as much light as possible. You see Cassida gasp as she realizes that the heart she had been praying to did not send somebody, but is instead here. With the faith and worship of that emblem, not only does the disease fade (under the power of your light), but we’ll go ahead and let 70 hit points stand as you look at a young boy breathe and become perhaps the first person in Exandrian history to be a 0-level commoner with 70 hit points.
  Laura and BLeeM:muscles growing
• 02:11:47 Cassida:“You are she. How are you here?”
  Trist:“Uh, it was the plan. I do need your help.”
  Cassida:“Anything. Anything.”
• 02:12:23 Tissues for Noshir! Emotional investment!
• 02:12:45 Father Milo:“I think this will all be over tonight. There is an opportunity here, I think. Decades of truce between us. Don’t you think it would be a shame for that to go away? What do you think happens after Aeor, Ayden?”
  Ayden:“I think we will find out. I think that the threat we now face is an opportunity, but you are the ones who must come to the table. Not us.”
  Father Milo:“They’re not real, Ayden. controls Dr Bezel They’re little playthings. They live for a second, die like mayflies. How many times am I going to hear you say family tonight? Do you really mean it? Family means us together. We didn’t leave the table. You left. You left for them.”
  Ayden: casts Protection from Good and Evil releasing Dr Bezel. “That which we created now exists. Just because our hands molded something does not give us the right to destroy it. Although there is multitude in them, we must light the path, not erase it…I am here because there was a time when we were young where we did not hate each other. Your jealousy blinds you and your rage hurts us all. You laughed at me for supporting her, but never was there a braver moment than when she came to you. And I knew what you would do. And I knew that she must try. And I will not abandon her now, just as I wish we had not abandoned you, and you us.”
• 02:19:15 Ayden reveals a channel divinity spell specifically for clerics of the Peace Domain called Balm of Peace while walking through a recovery ward.
• 02:23:15 Cassida:“I, of course, had to keep it a profound secret. The Magestri of Aeor, the Guard, the Ministry of Intention, just for bringing these machines to a hospital, I could be executed. But they need me, they need my research desperately. I’ve been careful enough to cordon off so that they don’t have every missing piece, not yet.”
  Trist:“It’s amazing what you’ve done here. I can see your heart, and you are full of so much love…We’ve been here for a while, we knew we had to come here.”
  Cassida:(putting it together)“The gods haven’t been seen in decades. You knew? Half a century ago, you knew that–”
  Trist:“Yes.”
  Cassida:“The plans you’ll make when time is infinite. What’s 30 years of living a mortal life if it gets you past the Latimus Princeps? My god.”
  Trist:“Well, I will tell you, 30 years in a mortal life is quite wonderful.”
• 02:25:25 Arcadia:“I’m helping.”
• 02:26:29 Cassida:“There is a creation that is effectively completed. It has not been tested yet. We’re preparing to test it tomorrow. I’ve been one of several departmental heads spearheading a project known as the Factorum Malleus.”
  Trist:“That is actually why we are here.”
  Cassida:“You were aware of it or you feared it?”
  Abubakar:“Ooh, what a question!”
  Cassida:“…culturally, there are many proud mages here, and I am certain that the weapon, if it fell into their hands, would be terrifying. I am part of a small secret coterie of archmagi within the city. We are known as the Society of Primes.
  Nick's reaction
  We are developing this and my research has been instrumental. There are blocks placed into the Factorum Malleus by myself and the society. We can help you win. That has been my dream. We can help you win. We can end this war. A weapon like this? There are political factions within Aeor that I do not agree with, but we can win this war. I’ve been very careful and we have the ability, if we could coordinate. This is a miracle that you are here. This has been my dream that the ancient legends, the Schism, time and time again, you have had to come and defend us from Primordials, from Betrayers over and over and over again. group's pained reaction to this misinterpretation We are finally at the threshold where we can join you and make a difference side by side.”
  Abubakar:“This is fucking great!”
  How about another BLeeM Vibe Whiplash?
• 02:30:11 We are now going to move back to the Genesis Ward. As the tram comes into the station, Asha and The Emissary, you, Tishar, and Zaharzht exit the tram in a vast military square. You see this regal landscape, this brutalist, intense gray architecture of Aeor. You see under this flat stone overhang, there is what looks to be a magisterial building. Under that you see images of mortal mages holding scales at what appears to be a courthouse. You look and see at the edge of the military square, there is also a small tree planted in the ground. It appears to be one of the few places with sunlight. You haven’t seen any civic plants since you’ve been here, but there’s this old tree here in the parade grounds. A family of birds has a nest in there.
  Up towards the central spire (you’re at the very top of the city, so you know that the real shit is going to be buried down the long brumestone elevator shaft) you see an Onyx Pinnacle (a central spire of glassy jet black volcanic stone that raises aloft. You can feel the pulsing ripples. At it’s center point, it is almost creating visible shadow. 10 or 15 feet from that pinnacle, that shadow fades from visibility and moves out hiding the city from divine sight. At the base of that pinnacle, you see a building structure, that has very few entrances and exits (like many of the buildings in Aeor) and appears to be very well guarded. Exiting the tram, you are still under your Sphere of Invisibility, which will last another hour at this point.
  You walk over and see this old tree. It looks like some sort of old civic fruit tree. You see in the base of the tree are the words
  “A Gift of the Golden Scythe to the Magestri of Aeor.”
  It appears to be a civic gift as a relation between sky cities. You see that one of the little birds in the nest wakes up.
• 02:35:18 Asha:“There are more trees, though, somewhere?”
  Bird:“Few, very few. More engines, more buildings, more loud buzzing things and humming things and rattling things and breaking things. Sorry, I can find trees, if you wish.”
• 02:39:03 Tree:“They believe they make walls, but they make only nets. There are always holes for life to find.”
  You hear the ground breaking as roots spread from this tree towards the base of the Onyx Pinnacle. Asha hears her temple growing. Unnatural light, warped steel, endless stone, but there is a symphony of rats and birds and vermin; life unending in this place.
• 02:42:24 Emissary:“Bird. She bears her teeth, but I know what mother sees in her.”
  Tishar:“Hate to be on a mission with a couple.”
  • Birds don’t have teeth, Apples!
  • Confirmed Tishar is Gruumsh, the Ruiner
• 02:44:25 Getting this close to the source causes some vision impairment
• 02:45:05 Tishar:“It troubles us. There’s nothing more beautiful than to destroy the things we don’t understand.”
• 02:45:50 Back to the Ars Elysia. SILAHA and Emhira approach ZVX (The sentient door/lock to the speakeasy that also has trapped a planetar),
  ZVX:“All right, open wide. Boss’ pocket.”
  ZVX opens into a hidden chamber that is lit in a way like the edges are glittering tinsel that come up and above, forming a sphere of extra dimensional space. Hovering here, looking cagey and horrified and partially wounded, still bleeding, is this planetar.
  “How have you done this to me? Who do I now behold?”
• 02:47:50 The planetar (Garathran) names his commander to be a Solar named Acastriel, a lieutenant of the Dawnfather.
• 02:52:36 Garathran:“You made us to be good. You made us to fight. It was supposed to be right. Sealing the Betrayers, putting them in the shadows again. I have slain devils for a century thinking it was right and then one day I’m told to sheath my sword. Acastriel came to those of us who wondered why and said ‘Do you know what they are doing? It’s a war to us. To them, it’s a squabble.’ Why did you make us? Why did you make all of this? When you knew that you were hurting this world, why didn’t you just leave?”

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