Editing All Roads/Session 26 (section)

==Isis and the Sleepwalker==

Dakkareth:	Taking care to leave all her various protections in place and shifting incoming information through non-obvious paths in her mindscape Isis reaches out into the man's mind and memories.

Dakkareth:	(Read the Depths)

Dakkareth:	His name, his identity, these are the first pieces of information she seeks out. With his name and his hair in her possession he will never be beyond her reach.

ST:	Julian Crosswell is the man's name, though he renounced it soon after meeting Jean. Clearly a disturbed individual he is a native Londoner, and has beared his derangement most of his life. A paranoid schizophrenic, though not to a debilitating degree. Most people never knew he was ill until they got to know him.

ST:	His paranoid delusions were confirmed when he met Jean, who recognised Julian as a sleepwalker and took him under his wing. On learning about the secret world from the scelestus's point of view he devoted his life to helping Jean in his goals.

ST:	When the two met Jean was already convinced of his part in the 'plan', as he referred to it. The sceletus was acting on very specific, often arbitrary-seeming orders from a shady figure he called 'The Operator'.

ST:	They never met this person, but Jean was convinced to follow them for two reasons. One was the promise of revenge against Alastair and the Guardians of London. The second, more importantly, was to bring about a vision Jean had recieved in a dream, or so he would say.

ST:	A perfect society, where mages ruled for the good of all people and not to keep them enslaved in ignorance.

ST:	Julian wasn't privvy to the specifics, but he followed. Partly in awe of the world he was just discovering.

ST:	The most interesting, and possibly chilling, piece of information you discover pertains to the event at Brewers Hall.

ST:	Jean didn't orchestrate that himself, he just wasn't capable of it. He was let in by someone on the inside. They supplied him access to the demense's soulstone, which he corrupted. This allowed for the scale of the paradox seen at the event.

ST:	They also allowed him to slip the wards on the place and interact directly with the spell in progress.

Dakkareth:	(does he know anything about who that inside person was?)

ST:	No. He just followed the faceless commands of the operator, which he recieved through dead-drops and anonymous phone calls.

Dakkareth:	(Does he know anything about the reason Jean originally came in conflict with Alastari and the Guardians?)

ST:	Jean explained it to him, though left out a lot of information. You can gather nothing new from him.

ST:	You get the impression both Jean and Julian were intensely troubled people. Jean sometimes had doubts about the whole thing, but always carried out his orders in the end. It seemed he felt that he had little else to live for.

ST:	He would say he'd sometimes catch glimpses of the society in his vision, and that's what kept him going.

Dakkareth:	(Unraveling Practice of Mind - rather than putting a false memory on top of something to obscure it, think damaging the memory until it is cut to ribbons and heals into a scar or sorts)

Dakkareth:	What Isis wants to obscure are the details of the cabal's interaction with the Jean (in particular what they professed to know about the Guardians), as well as the fact that Isis broke into his memory

Dakkareth:	she will try to make it look like the damage centers around her taking control of his mind

Dakkareth:	with the parts she wants to hide conveniently collateral damage