Editing Feeling Our Way Around (section)

==Back to the Palace==
Stella spends the afternoon on the Wall.

Nivad checks Vidan’s mail– people are constantly misspelling his name.  Scout thinks the level of self-deception is ridiculous.  His realtor has found him a place, so he goes and sets up the ritual.  This room is no longer Yellow.  Interesting…  Scout gets teleported in by Managaratha, doing an experiment to see if we can target Nivad.  Thinking about it, Vidan thinks maybe it’s Heart of Purple water that is part of the thing.

A Bureaucrat shows up.  “Now that there’s an escape route, I've come to give you information about Emergency Plan Alpha from the Ministry of Lions.”  He teleports out, and Nivad reads the packet.  “If you are restored absent my cooperation, you are presumably somewhat confused as to the status of the Reconcile the Churches project.  Come see me at your earliest convenience.  –Az Julan, Minister of Lions”  (Navid is an actual Bureaucrat, in a way that Vidan is not.  Probably a Third level Bureaucrat, but he’s missing a bunch of his points.  “Frag will do that”, thinks Managaratha, elsewhere in the city.)

After dinner, Alasphel (the servant from the Caravan) shows up, asking for Stella.  “Lady Stella.  While we were travelling, you and your friends happened to deal with a plot of the Lady of Life and her followers, to deal with Suvatra.  I can’t prove that it was the Lady of Life, but it was.  I was wondering if the lot of you would be willing to interfere with another of her projects.”  Hmm.  A similar type of project?  “I believe it is for the same long-term project, though not so aggressive.”

(Stella has been told that traditionally the three faces of the Church pursue different ends, but are not opposed to each other.  The present three Ladies, and by extension their Servants, are in active opposition.)

What does she need?  It is her understanding that there will be a ceremony this evening to give a blessing to a member of the nobility who is in a good place to benefit should the Maharani suffer unfortunate consequences in the future.  She believes that it’s part of the Lady of Life’s plan to replace the Maharani for the ritual to go well.  Unfortunately it’s taking place in the Church of Life, and only followers of the Lady and their guests can attend.  It is her belief that, as a follower of the Goddess, she would be able to attend, since she is not Life or Lore, and therefore must be Life.  She doesn’t know the details, or that it would be a Fight per se, but some kind of interference would be helpful.  The target for the blessing is Rani Dwalla is the head of house Sukrat, and the Lady of Life’s niece.  So the blessing is not illegitimate, but she believes it is a step to oppose the Maharani.