CR Arcadum S2E3

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Episode Statistics
Season	2
Episode	3/29
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Episode Cast
DM(s)	Arcadum, SciFri, Qyr, Gigabits
Director	Arcadum
Actors	Callous Row Season 2 Characters
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Previous	S2E2: A shadow on the wall
Next	S2E4

Episode 3

Corporate infiltration

June Levings leads a corporate meeting between the officials

June Levings receives a phone call that the corporate CEOs are gathering for an interim board meeting to elect a new official for the corporations to take the missing president's place. The situation hangs on the edge of a knife, and some fear the power struggle may even result in a war. After she starts the meeting, everyone present receives a message on an emergency channel which has not used since the The War of Unification asking for help at the edge of the sector.

Rook calls Faye asking her to gather more intel on SONITII in the Upper City. Sneaking into the company offices together with her personal assistant Rivett, they're caught by Blayne Penn in Ellek Myth's office. As she is detained, Damien Masaru from TALARIS corp appears and starts questioning her. Looking for any signs of tampering with Ellek's computer, Blayne looses control over his cyberware as he's infected by a virus. He fires a gunshot at Damien but he is protected by his magic and is uninjured. Hatsune Shinohara is invited to take a look at the hack and finds false information about Faye being a Quixote ghost. When faced with the decision what to do with the virus, she decides to keep it for herself and Atlantis instead of sharing the info with SONITII. As Faye is detained by armed guards, another hack makes their visors show bogus info, allowing her to escape.

Faye is arrested when sneaking into the SONITII Corporation offices

Following Faye's near capture, Rook himself goes to greet Ellek Myth of SONITII in the Upper City. He tells them he knows about their security breach and offers to provide more information in exchange for services, so he is escorted into their offices. After conversing with Bobken Zavakian Rook cements the story of Faye being a Quixote ghost and is given payment in the form of the promise that SONITII will lend him an armed entourage. He only needs them to "look imposing" and doesn't expect any actual protection, so they agree.

DM: From the wastes to the city

An unlikely gathering, Sheila and Paprika finds "papa" Fred and Damien of TALARIS

Sheila is led to the Upper City by the orb drone Paprika attempting to locate her father and creator. They walk into the corporate offices looking out of place. When they meet her father Fred of TALARIS Corp, he shows fascination for Sheila's communications with the spirits, her magic, and her crystal staff, so he involves Damien. Sheila tells them of the upset volcano in the wastes as well as the scavengable magical crystals. Damien insists that TALARIS has no involvement in upsetting the spirits of the earth; if they had any operations there he would be aware of it.

Kythus argue with Miss Palpatyne

The Weeping Stones out in the wasteland

DM: The Manifested and the Children of Naia

A Shadow Spirit appears and speaks to Ciara Ní Éabha and Kythus Tolem in the Undercity. It speaks of traitorous forces taking spiritual energy from the earth until nothing remains and warns that anyone wearing the mark of TALARIS will suffer. It also speaks about the stirring mountain, similar to the warnings given to Sheila, and that they must warn the other wastelanders. Kythus sets out and leads an expedition to Scrap Town and gathers members to join a caravan to go into the Wasteland.

"The Manifested" gather around the stones

Together with Ahi, Reeza, Ryzy, Leilani, Pebbles, The Nameless Knight, Ash, and Stein they encounter a Fire Spirit out in the wastes, as well as a corporate convoy led by Nadia Palpatyne of ATLANTIS. Kythus accuses Nadia and her corporate ilk of being the reason for upsetting the mountain spirits. The Spirit makes itself visible to all present, not just the magically inclined, and gets Nadia to leave. A Spirit of light introduces itself to the caravan from the Undercity and leads them to an oasis of sorts. It addresses them as "the manifested", and tells them to "pay heed to the weeping one, the guardian of these stones". The Spirit tells them about "the children of Naia" who have guarded these sacred stones, and it asks of those gathered to prove themselves "worthy of Naia's light" and to now safeguard the place.

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