Strange Remnants
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:50 am
Prelude
". . . So in love with you, My love, Am I," sings the "The Smoky Velvet," the final word a seemingly infinite decrescendo. And the spotlights are cut, the club erupts with applause and appreciative whistles, while she stands before the mic with her eyelids gently shut and with a happy smile upon her lips.
The Malay waiter touches her arm. "Miss Lambeau, someone wishes to talk to you. The gentleman said he has a message from your grandmother."
Marie Lambeau sits herself at the messenger's table. He is the most pasty-faced man she has ever met. He is scribbling away on some kind of contract, using his own blood as ink! and the well--a bleeding forearm.
She removes her paste tiara and drops it upon the table. "You have a scratch, sir?" she says nonchalantly, feeling anything but. "You wanted a word?"
"Your grandmother," he lisps, "wants you to sign this pact."
"Grand-mère has been dead this past year."
"Nevertheless . . ." he insists. Something in his objectionable manner convinces Marie that he is speaking the truth and that she should do as he asks, also, she feels that the pact is somehow connected with the coming eclipse which astronomers had predicted. Marie snatches his pen, jabs its nib into his forearm, and signs her name with a flourish.
Marie's chair is barged into. A Sister of Indolence, one of the peculiar local missionary sects, looks down upon her.
"Bless you," says the nun.
Turn 1, Action Phase, space 20
Cast Voice of Ra for 1 extra Action, lose 1 Health (Sanity loss negated due to her passive ability).
Extra Action: Gain Focus.
Action 1: Travel to space 17.
Action 2: Travel (Component Action) to The Himalayas.
The nun apologises. "Not all who walk the Earth wish to see humanity survive the eclipse," she says cryptically.
"Sister?" questions Marie, hanging on the word "eclipse."
"Travel north, through India and Nepal to The Himalayas. Maybe you will find help there."
"But I catch the ferry to Bali in the morning; I sing on Tuesday night."
"Go north," is the unequivocal reply.