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==Heart of Yellow==

We sail south towards the X.  There are more Yellow surgey things which are kind of annoying but not damaging.  There is a fancy door on the side of a cliff.    "Open Sesame" in Jabaran works to open it. 

We enter the maze of Gootmu!  It’s a strange world.  We have one action, we can use it to Move forward in the Maze the number of successes.  We lay out new tiles as we encounter them.  Gale thinks the Heart is about 8 tiles in.  Tiles without anyone on them / in line of sight of them vanish.  If we’re on a tile that becomes disconnected, it is BAD, in the becomes-disconnected-from-reality way.  Fortunately, we’re on the same Battlemap, and the disconnected tile gets pulled back into connection.  Diomarche discovers he can break down walls, for one DI (though it increases

Eventually, we find a Gootmu, which is an Exit.  We are somewhat scared.  Eventually Managaratha looks at one of these Doors, and discovers that they are doors back to Reality.  Where exactly in Reality, it’s not clear.

Eventually, Managaratha goes in.  He comes back in and says the water is fine tea is good and we can come in.  After more checking to see if he’s been zotted, everyone eventually goes through a door, where there is an older Jabaran women, a table, and tea.  She asks why she should let us through to the Heart of Yellow.  Um.  To put back the Rainbow river?

We should figure out <i>why</i> the Rainbow River was taken apart before deciding to put it back together.  Managaratha thinks about it-- it was broken up to help fight the Slith, by giving Magic to all the countries.  She does not think that is a good enough reason to go through.  But she will give us three questions, as a consolation prize.

Managaratha asks, “Why is Feelings Magic changing?”  We all agree that is a question.  The Lady of Love wishes Feelings magic to be in the Goddess’ domain, rather than Orellian's.  The Guardian (no name given) thinks she may not be successful, although if she gets to the Heart she might have better success, and she could make other progress.  Orellian is further away this Comet than he has been, as he has been… busy recently.

Why is the Oasis after Nesh?  The Oasis has eaten most of the desert, it wants to continue growing.  There are a few options: Into Jabar, which would be difficult for a number of reasons at present; or into the Homelands, I suppose you’d call them, that is currently protected by Nikolai’s anti-magic anti-DI fields.  The Oasis wants to take that down and needs Nikolai’s heir to do that.

What does she want us to know / want to tell us?  Managaratha gets 2 out of 2 Karma successes.  

The Breaker’s main plots are:
<ul>
<li> Take over the Empire
<li> Corrupt the Spirits in the Forest
<li> Destroy (or corrupt) the Orange Zone
<li> Promote the disagreements between Rush and the rest of the Five
<li> Assassinate enough of the Blue Mages that Melmane falls to Chaos (more than it already has)
<li> Send enough slith into Jabar to conquer it.
</ul>

And now it is time to be going.  Where do we want to go?  We dither about abandoning Jabar.  Other Dunyazade (because we assume that’s who it is) says we’re probably not getting much more done here.

We decide on His Majesty’s Court, in Green.  We tell Dubreck to call us.