So first things first, Ursa phones her Mum. She wants to speak to Kojak, and tells him about the encounter with one of Myst’s ‘choir’. He makes a note and says to be careful, but can’t actually offer much advice.
Then Ursa invites her mum (and whole immediate family) to a Changeling ritual called the Homecoming (no relation to the American dance), in which a Changeling demonstrates that they’ve acclimated to their chosen society by hosting their family for a dinner/party/dinner party.
She invites Nora and Merlin, her closest friends, for moral support. They’re only a bit confused, and variously offer to ensorcel/smoke out/murder Ursa’s family to help the evening go smoothly. Ursa states that would be cheating, but thanks.
Emva pops up from a drawer to tell a story about baking weed brownies. She vanishes as quickly as she appeared.
From there everyone heads down to the treasury, as Cimimi is apparently pestering Brynner to get three nearby tokens returned. She asks everyone to be quiet, as her brother recently almost woke up, but gives everyone their items and throws the tokens into a diamond lake. After that she seems to imply that the items themselves are doing the choosing.
On the way out, everyone rolls a natural 20, and as such notices that the treasury itself, all the piles of gold, are another mimic just like Cimimi (only much larger, and apparently self-replicating).
Merlin reaches into the pockets of his new hoodie and finds an iron coin, stamped with a dual-throne symbol. He recognises it from somewhere and makes a note to research it further.
A month goes by.
Everyone is arriving for the ritual. Alkahest is making spinach puffs, and Nora helps whisking things. Merlin prestidigitationally shoots beer from his finger like a pervert. He also gives Ursa’s Mum a mild telling off for bringing back-up food, and gets a cheers from her Dad for doing so.
Just as everyone is sitting down to eat and the candles marking the ritual’s beginning almost light themselves, there’s another knock at the door.
It’s Panacea. She waltzes in and makes herself at home, threatening the Carpenter family with general violence, and an explosive as a last resort. Alkahest can damp her powers, but not a bomb.
She demands that he leave with her. She’ll be friendly enough for ten minutes, but after that point bodies are going to start piling up. The candles light and the ritual begins, oops!
Nora figures out that her explosive belt can be disarmed with Remote Access, but it’s down to one of two wires – red or black. Merlin thinks that with enough time, he might be able to Banish her. And Ursa is just trying to keep anyone from getting hurt.
Plus, if the group gets really short of ideas… Merlin could probably issue a challenge or make a promise, to trigger his Mantle state (after maintaining 5 points in Order through his deal a while back), though the risks are pretty great. Nora could probably get in touch with Morris and use the Server if she really needed to, though the risks are similarly terrible. It’ll be fine though!
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