Editing Adventures are Everywhere (section)

==At the Cassandra Party==
Meraldi is the epitome of grace and charm, and is well-matched by the stylish Vidan (who opts not to hold forth on the glories of Navere).  Diomarch and Gale make do, and Managaratha makes some wary with his waving around of an eye.

Meraldi and Vidan avoid Master Cassandra to speak with others.  Some discussion of the Fire happens; it is more “ah, what a tragedy that she was so careless”, as opposed to “that is suspicious.”  Meraldi deliberately crosses the Saurian-human divide; Vidan apologizes on behalf of Nesh, who surely would have liked to attend if he had not been called away by unforseen circumstances.   This inspires them to push as to what the circumstances are.  I’faith, they have not heard of the dire circumstances of the party’s plight– or much at all of the materials the party has been distributing hither and yon.  Zounds!

Vidan gives the Saurians a Tarn evidence packet - there is much sage nodding - see what happens when you get mixed up in foolishness like weird shit?  

Cassandra has heard of Managaratha and is disappointed that he is less knowledgeable about orange magic than she had heard. 
Managaratha asks about the magic of Creation vs. Uncreation.  She says there was one long ago who could do such a thing– create pits and the like.  Gale offers her the knife to look.

“If she starts stabbing us, this is a different party.”  – Mike/Vidan

“There are things in this I am not completely clear how this is done.  I could probably learn more if you left it a few days, I don’t know what your plans are…”

Managaratha holds forth about the knife and what we’ve learned about it and the workshop and Lisidor.  Master Cassandra does not react to any of this, but confirms that it was a spell gone wrong that caused the workshop fire, not just a Surge.  She confirms it is Lisidor’s work, and that Lisidor was the only one who perished.  She was working on…. something unusual.  “Sometimes experiments do not go the way one would hope.”

Managaratha discusses Orange magic with Cassandra; she is interested in knowing how it used to work.  Managaratha recalls– after the Surges, the Rainbow River disappeared.  When the Rainbow River disappeared, people started building the Zones.  People, Orellian… the Zones were deliberate in some sense, in response to the Rainbow River disappearing.  

Cassandra speaks with the party for 20-30 minutes before wandering off.