Epiphany 11: Substantiation

Notes

On the shores south of Mooniyang stands the local Roman Consulate, led by Praetor Gaius Montkahnawake. The hospitality of Hestia has been offered to travelers Psypher and the Shadow, where they have met other Consulate guests Wanda and Pietro Maximoff.

Makeshift, Sable Shadow, and Kitsune snuck into the guest quarters provided to their team for a secure place to sleep. Those who were able to stay awake long enough may have ((without the GM's looming oversight)) pooled together their discoveries. They also took turns as to who sleeps on the narrow guest beds, while others make do on the floor.

Out in the main hall of this long house, a pair of Centurions patrolled quietly throughout the night. They vanished from the building in the same manner that they arrived, an hour before sunrise.

While the area outside did start to lighten around 5:40 local time, it has not been a dramatic change of illumination: light snow flurries have persisted since about forty-five minutes after the Trenchcoat Brigade assembled in this guest room.

In his private suite, Praetor Gaius Montkahnawake performs his morning prayers while washing the form and dressing for duty. He takes the time to add an extra underlayer -- he predicts that he may need to travel outdoors.

In the kitchen, Senja Jikonsase has decided that today will be a Baking Day. She has arranged the coals and thick branches in her wood-burning brick oven. Between steps as she fries eggs and cooks up gingerbread cereal and cores a dozen apples, she mixes together a glaze for the premade dough now thawing on her counter. Looks likely that the kitchen will be busy today.

In the loft near the front of the longhouse, the Maximoff twins start doing a bit of unsupervised research. Pietro narrows his search to maps, sketches, and other illustrations of named places or historic events. Wanda starts her research by checking each volume for the size of its footnotes or bibliography -- if it does not have a list of many other referenced sources, she puts the volume back on the shelf exactly where she found it.

Trenchcoat Investigation

Recent Locations

These are either World Anvil articles, or they are Google Maps links

Scenes of Stardust

• Columbia St/Union St bus stop
• 132 Degraw St
• 77 Sackett St
• 74 Union St

Further Investigation

• Mex Carroll's Diner
• Van Meerendonk Waterfront District Sculpture Garden at 86 Degraw St
• Foxfire Shed
• 106 Degraw St
• South Brooklyn Children's Garden
• Su's Pick Pawn Shop

Clues!

• Document Destruction
• Foxfire Project Room
• Shawmut
• Mooniyaang
• Epiphany Emission Point

The Meet-Up

• Epiphany Emission Point
  at the back yard bordering on 197 Columbia St and 137 Sackett St

Bistro Briefing

• Starbuccaneer's Coffee and Bistro

Cross Dimensional Disruption

• Roman Empire Consulate, on the shore southwest of Mooniyaang

Facts Found

Not a comprehensive list! Check your own clue files, because you certainly know more!

Epiphany 1: Starchaser

Motes of light dance through a space, ignoring all attempts of matter to interact with them.

Sometimes sound fragments accompany them: music, or transmitted voices.

The sounds cease to be heard sometime shortly before the stardust trail starts to include "below ground" portions of its cycle.

The locals in this part of Brooklyn's Columbia Street Waterfront District have grown inured to the motes. They may not like it, but they no longer let it startle them into a reaction.

Epiphany 2: Foxfire

The stardust trail grows thicker, appearing more frequently and in more intense clusters, and moves faster as it enters the city block framed by Sackett Street, Columbia Street, Degraw Street, and Van Brunt Street.

The stardust trail's destination is not in the private bus parking lane that bisects the block.

A green cinderblock "gardener's shed", nestled under the thick cover of the trees, may be the destination.

Epiphany 3: Manifest

Gadgets emplaced throughout the Waterfront District interact somehow with the stardust trail.

The "gardener's shed" is so very much more than its outside suggests.

Epiphany 4: Awakening

The Man In Red, in possession of many private documents to which he ought never have gained access, destroys them in his efforts to create a collage project of his own.

Someone occasionally visits the interior space of the Foxfire Shed to do regular janitorial work.

One of those visitors is a metahuman.

Epiphany 5: Illumination

Epiphany Evidence Collage

If unidentified parties access the Foxfire Shed, Makeshift will receive an electronic notification. Meanwhile, the wider perimeter of the affected area includes some difficult-to-access hidden spaces!

Epiphany 6: Ideaphoria

Communal Intel Pool crafted! Filled with prior findings!

Epiphany Emission Point explored by group effort.

Five newcomers arrived in the Foxfire Project Room! They bring trays and platters with opaque covers!

Epiphany Filter Field discovered and documented.

Team removed this Emission Point Gadget from its locked position. They plan on investigating more fully at a controlled location.

Darkness flows into the block like ocean fog arriving from the wrong direction.

Epiphany 7: Change

The five red-jumpsuited metahumans have been sent on this mission by their supervisor to "get acquainted with the Neighbors".

"Neighbors" appears to mean the Masked Mystery Mavens running around Brooklyn on this winter evening; and the people in the jumpsuit do think at least three individuals comprise the Neighbor team.

The elderly lady refers to herself as "Nobody". While observing from concealment, the Trenchcoat Brigade also heard these five use names for each other such as "Elegast" and "Luule".

A gigantic octopus appears to have invaded the area of Degraw St just east of the Columbia St intersection. With the Watchmen unavailable, tonight the Knights Vigilant respond to the city's rescue needs!

Epiphany 8: Breakthrough

The Visiting Team's technology sure does use a lot of nanocrystals.

Each member of the Visiting Team has some sort of cybernetic device implanted near the top of the spine, just below the collarbone, on their backs.

At least one member of the Visiting Team, Luule Erato, carried only Canadian bills. She also put great value and concern on her possession of metal coins in her change.

The Visiting Team are here to lay the groundwork for a Good Neighbor relationship with the important locals.

By "locals", the Visiting Team seem to automatically mean active metahumans in the local population of what they keep calling "Quantum York".

The culture of the Visiting Team has an urgent need for certain pharmaceutical components, and for "unpolluted" iron.

The Visiting Team provided the Trenchcoat Brigade with a plastic key that will grant access to a drop point for exchanging messages, so that future meetings can be scheduled.

The Visiting Team plan some After-Hours Acquisitions at the local Home Depot, thanks to pointers given by the Trenchcoat Brigade.

Epiphany 9: Ekphoria

Active use of metahuman powers has some influence on the flow of energy in the Foxfire Project Room.

We are now on the southern shores of what some might call the St. Lawrence River, with an excellent view northeastward to the island assuredly not called "Montreal".

The road is silvery.

The area outside the Project Room overlooks a watchpost for four modern Roman Centurion guards.

Epiphany 10: Incarnation

Makeshift knows about spinal implants in some Visiting Team members.

The Shadow has one of the crystals from the Project Room.

Sable Shadow has reason to hypothesize that Praetor Gaius Montkahnawake has an important appointment to this Consulate that comes with some goods transported at high expense, so the Consulate is politically important and has some power, but that also Gaius might be in some sort of Elevated Exile.

Everyone fell asleep before getting into details about how their original investigations led to what they see here in the Roma Consulate on the border of Mooniyang.

Thursday

January 7

2010

Coptic Orthodox Christmas

6:30 am Eastern Standard Time

An hour before sunrise in Mooniyang

Light snow flurries

Campaign

Trenchcoat Epiphany

Protagonists

Psypher

The Shadow

Makeshift

Agent Chameleon

Sable Shadow

Player Journals

Case of the Psychic's Lament, Part 11 by The Shadow
The Journal Entry’s title by Sable Shadow

Report Date

25 Oct 2024

Primary Location

Mooniyaang

Related Plots

• Trenchcoat Epiphany

Related Characters

• Gaius Montkahnawake
• Makeshift
• Pietro Maximoff
• Psypher
• Sable Shadow
• Skyburner
• The Shadow
• Wanda Maximoff