Editing Feeling Our Way Around (section)

==Nothing More than Feelings==
Managaratha wanders off to look for Yellow mages.  Vikarna (the harbinger of the Feelings plot) calls Managaratha.  She’s on a boat, she’s outside of Yellow.  Feelings here… she can’t tell if it’s weird, because there’s less of it than usual.  I thought of some ideas for how to test it.  I talked to Satrapi, I gave her some ideas for a Feelings ritual you could do.  So talk to her.  Vikarna is going to head to Blue, she probably can’t get the captain to turn around.

Managaratha is going to look at transport to make things faster.  He says he’ll get in touch with her later.  Who is Satrapi?  Sigh.  A mage in the capital.

Vidan makes arrangements for a meeting between Satrapi and Managaratha.  She has a nice house in the capital.  She’s probably in her 40s - 50s, going slightly grey, well-dressed.  She has been contacted by Vikarna, who has made arrangements for us to get some kind of sense of how Feelings magic works.  We don’t have any Feelings mages, right?  Right.  Vidan is Purple.  Oh, that’s not going to help at all.  Nesh has DI resistance.

How this will work.  We’ll meditate on how we feel about things, internally, which will generate some ability to…  Well.  Illusion works through the voice and what you should see.  Feelings works by echoing the feeling that you want to generate in yourself.  None of us have talent to learn to cast spells with that, but we can maybe see something about what’s going on, in a ritual that uses Illusions to help us see the Feelings magic.

She herself is not convinced that something is changing with Feelings, but having been paid, is happy to do the ritual.  Scout puts up a miracle of seeing things– 9 successes with 6 DI.

We play Apples to Apples, ish.  We try to match Brilliant, Charming, and Selfish.  Nesh just talks gibberish– Rock Concert, Car Horns, The NRA?  What the heck?  We decide Inside the Sun is the most brilliant, Getting a Hug is the most charming, and Hooligans were the most selfish.  Nesh is out of cards, so we decide to do the ritual again.

Next round: Rich. We pick Lawyers.  Unscrupulous we pick Spiders.  Scout notices something weird on that one.  All of a sudden Stella has played Spiders, when Managaratha had originally played.  Weird.  Misunderstood we play Killer Whales.  Pure is Lightning– the cards switch again.  Swift is Tornadoes.  Speedy is Blizzard. and they change again!  Scout is finding this very weird!  Soft is Socks, and they change again!  Boisterous is between Chimpanzees, and My 16th Birthday.  Chimpanezees wins, but Managaratha played Stella’s 16th Birthday?  That’s weird…  Demanding: Funerals.  Which Stella also wins.

Vidan does a miracle of Witnessing,   3 DI, 13 succeses.  Round 3!  Sappy is won by Being in Love.  Which Stella played, dah!  Fabulous: Weddings.    Honorable, Stella played Scout’s Job?  Weird to everyone!  Phony had no consensus.  Zany, Stella played Managaratha’s Hair.  Fragrant – Scout plays Corn on the Cob, which Stella stole.  Stella steals Taking a Bath for Luxurious.  Touchy-Feely was Managaratha’s Body, which Stella played!  

The rituals end.  Vidan thinks that Stella is a Priest of the Goddess, and Feelings are her thing.  Which is not the way that’s supposed to work.  Satrapi concedes there were some perturbations that were interesting, that she’ll talk to Vikarna about.  

Vidan thinks about whether Priests of the Twins are better at Purple than other mages.  He makes a Karma check with 6 successes, and gets the option to invoke his once a book schtick– and Nivad shows up!  As a Priest of the Twins, he doesn’t think being a Priest is any better at Purple.  But he could imagine such a connection might be drawable between Balance and Truth, or maybe Balance and Discipline…  But it’s not a thing by default.  Nobody but Scout seems to pay much attention to the fact that Vidan is now Nivad.

Are the Gods allied with different Magics?  Rush could be Battle?  The Goddess would probably be Feelings, when thinking about Comparative Religions.