Editing A ritual and no Pearls (section)

==Ritual Take One==

The room is set up as a ritual room.  She suggests to Nesh that he drop his defenses, which he does.  We all stand in a hexagon around her.  “This will probably take… well, a few minutes to start, since it’s a ritual rather than a stupid wild spell the way that Marek did.  Once it starts, it shouldn’t be more than an hour.”  Scout wonders if we’ll go to another time and space?  No, we’ll be here.

The ritual begins.  It’s heavily Battle flavored, so Managaratha is not super tuned in to what’s going on.

Scout notices that there’s a green spell on all of us– oh it’s the Amnesia Mist.  Nesh thinks it’s an hour later.  Well huh.  Diomarche wonders if using his Focus schtick would help.  Well, it might.  He remembers that we were being moved around the Battlemap, maybe observing what was happening, and then we were in the space where Sargeant Susie and the Orc (Slayer, in plate and with a large sword) were fighting toe to toe.  It was in tableau, but then the orc looked over at us, and said “Nice.”  And then the time stop faded some, and we were back in the ritual room.

Okay, she will think about this and we can try again in a bit.

Gale goes outside to test some theories.  She tries to zap the nearest orc.  Nothing happens.
She makes all the Broken creatures on the battlemap visible/apparent.  There’s lots of Broken creatures on the Battlemap.  Huh.  Normally rolling for 10s wouldn’t hit that Battlemap, but it’s… closer than it was…

Gale thinks she’s done with experiments, but Managaratha plays with water and the ice of the Tower.

“I do not understand why the Orc can break the time stop.  The time stop is Purple and Divine, neither of those are my specialty.  Given I do not understand that, while we can try again, I am inclined to avoid the orc and see what we can find out without interacting with it.”

Managartha offers to post-cog the ritual to see what we might have seen, but Alexa thinks it probably wouldn’t help if it weren’t Blue-Yellow.  Alexa will give us air bubbles to protect against the amnesia mist.