====== Crystal and Feathers ======

//<sub>Chapter 6 – [[start#completed chapters|return to list]]</sub>//

This time it's a bit different. Leili's is on top of the owe list, so she is protagonist, but we decide to draw cards and fit existing characters into all the cards, instead of inventing new ones.

===== Oracle ======

Leili's player choses Blood and Sex. She picks a card and we draw another three, this time trying to come up only with relevant characters in the breakdown.

<WRAP round tip>
10 of Spades: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.
</WRAP>

  * Spirit:

==== Ugurnaszir ====

A highly civilized, yet pathologically honest demon with a passion for possession. Recurring from [[Flight of the Crane#Ugurnaszir|Flight of the Crane]].

<WRAP column 20%>
|act|4,4|
|man|12,8|
|pro|10,4|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Make Leili's seductions much harder
</WRAP>

__Possesion__: Covertly. Potent. Far reaching.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

  * Leili, a celebrator of the spirit

==== Leili ====

A remarkably beautiful woman on her path to independence.

<WRAP column 20%>
|cov|4|
|dir|10|
|mys|10|
|oth|8|
|lov|6|
|vio|6|
</WRAP>

<WRAP column 30%>

<WRAP round todo>
Get rid of Jahangir, her stubborn ex, once and for all.

Yes, she is still trying.
</WRAP>
<WRAP round todo>
Enslave Tzao Lin
</WRAP>
<WRAP round todo>
Marry Kurigalzu
</WRAP>

</WRAP>

__Superhot__: Directly, action. Potent.

Screw descriptions, just think Jessica rabbit.

__Eat your heart__: Others. Consequential to self. Consequential to directly.

Her moist look breaks your heart.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

  * Orgy pimp:

==== Burnaburiash ====

When the king needs something dirty to spend the night with, he knows who to page.

<WRAP column 20%>
|act|10,6|
|man|12,8|
|pro|6,4|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo>
Pimp Leili
</WRAP>

__Procurer__: Others. Far reaching. Potent.

Just mysteriously gets stuff, and it always looks natural.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

<WRAP round tip>
7 of Hearts: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.
</WRAP>

  * Tzao Lin, worshiper of the spirit:

==== Tzao Lin ====

Ronin secretary to the Crane.

<WRAP column 20%>
|cov|6|
|dir|4|
|mys|8|
|oth|12|
|lov|6|
|vio|10|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Rejoin Leili and Jahangir
</WRAP>
<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Return Jahangir and his new family to their owner
</WRAP>

__Favoured by a god__: For myself. Far Reaching. Potent.

When he is in great need, the most unlikely (yet completely possible) things will conspire to help him

__Intoxicating__: Violence. Potent. Consequential for myself.

Has the power to cloud minds.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

  * The spirit: Ataratheh

<WRAP round tip>
5 of Diamonds: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master’s skull.
</WRAP>

  * Jahan, enslaved by the werewolves

==== Jahangir ====

Rough, stubborn, with a very poor vocabulary. Perfect for Dim.

Recently escaped from enslavement by werewolves.

<WRAP column 20%>
|cov|4|
|dir|12|
|mys|0|
|oth|0|
|lov|4|
|vio|10|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Get back the bride he bought when she was 6 ("bag of pelts for the little redhead!").

Yes, he's still after her...

... and prove to her he loves her.

</WRAP>
<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Kill Tzao Lin and Ugurnaszir who got him enslaved
</WRAP>

__Relentless__: Violence. Broad. Covertly. Potent.

//He just won't stop coming.//

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

  * Persuer of the slave

==== Ataratheh ====

Neither will she: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atargatis|a skin walker]] garbed with scraps of skin taken from many victims, able to assume the form of any of them.

<WRAP column 20%>
|act|0,0|
|man|12,8|
|pro|8,4|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Catch Jahangir, the escaped slave
</WRAP>

__The Garb__: Covertly. Unique. Consequential to love.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

<WRAP round tip>
2 of Hearts: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.
</WRAP>

  * Demaris, the student wizardess

==== Demaris ====

Demaris, mistress of keys, wizard of the seven towers, ruler of the city's secrets.

A small woman in a severe black dress, a dark veil surrounding her heart-shaped face. From the silver chain belt that is her only adornment hangs a ring festooned with many ancient and ornate keys.

Kimin's older and loving sister, who dropped him into many a cauldron's when he was a baby.

Demaris is a woman of great but hidden power. Sole surviving disciple of a secret order of wizards, she commands vast covert influence in the affairs of the city. Her primary concern is the cultivation of the sacred architectures and the harvesting of the geomantic energies they generate.

It is said that she played a key role in getting the city's leaders to surrender to the Danites, because she dared not risk any damage to the city structures. 

<WRAP column 20%>
|man|12,8|
|pro|10,6|
|act|4,0|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo>
Get rid of Leili
</WRAP>

__Magic of Loci and Gates__: For myself. Far-Reaching, Potent.

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

  * Head of order:

==== Kurigalzu ====

Some say the entire power of the kingdom rests in his head as a word.

<WRAP column 20%>
|act|6,4|
|man|12,8|
|pro|6,0|
</WRAP>

<WRAP round todo column 30%>
Get Leili's crane, by way of fucking and dumping her and never calling her again
</WRAP>

__Reality Bending via wishes__: For others. Far reaching. Potent.

//He murmurs a few words, and you are a four year old, playing with your toys.//

<WRAP clear></WRAP>

===== Setting ======

{{:wicked_wednesday:wwmapcities.png?direct|Geograpical, I say!}}

===== Scenes ======

Soon, baby!