Editing TheStarsAreRight:Bailey Notes - Nov 12, 2011 (section)

== Meeting with Theo ==

Meet up with Theo on Aug 14th in New York.  
* He is fresh back from redoubts - all three (Tibet, South America, mid-Pacific) are all active.  No new gates are open, but they are active.  Half a dozen are tuned to places not of this world.  One was sealed by Li Feng that goes to a bad place.  There is one in Chico, California.  
* He provides a complete map of redoubt gates, which are all safe now.  Each also has a cache of weapons, transportation, and other gear.  There is a non-redoubt gate in Boston; and a redoubt gate just over the NY/Canada border.  
* He encourages going to the South America redoubt, where there is a stone labyrinth (a pattern to walk) that will help focus your abilities.  The main function of this is a device that helps power soldiers, if they attune to it.  
* There is also a small redoubt on Pitt Island in the south Pacific, which is well-defended with many booby traps.  They are not currently live, but should learn about them - some are physical and some are magical.  
* Redoubts gates to Spain need keys.  He gives us (out-of-game unspecified) passwords and/or other info to get through.  
* He suggests Alan St. Mar should not be told about the possible plan for using the airship to plug the hole.  We say that we were going find out his plans and how compatible they are with the hole-plugging.  He wants to know what the Mi-Go are doing there - concerned about people who might misuse their technology.  They are down in the mines there.  
* Dealing with principals - no new developments.  Training; 

* Theo says that his inclination regarding Pentheus is to leave them alone unless they get in the way.  He says they have been experimenting with their version of life weapons on the Unseelie.  
* He suggests that the Brotherhood of the Beast in Kluj should be low on priorities.  He has someone who is working to take care of it - Chandler is going to wipe them out.  
* He wants to talk to Jack after he gets back from Nevada about a particular project.  It has to do with the Whitetree people - another society/cult that has its ancestral roots in the priesthood that used to serve the kings.  They are a cadre of knowledgeable people with resources to help rebuild the world.  
* He wants especially to talk about Alan St Mar and effectively hijacking his flight _after_ our trip to Bodi, Nevada.  
* He says they are firm allies with the Seelie, and neutral with the Unseelie - mostly business relationships with them.  They are trying to broker a truce between these two, which is mostly successful.  
* Jack says that the "children" of Principal of Aspiration should be people in the vicinity of New York - secondhand from Carl, thinks that Donal may be the instrument of change.  Theo says that the tablets are unreliable, but the library in Tibet is good for information.  
* Theo advises against having anything to do with Li Mei - that all her statements were distortions, and that she and her people are entirely untrustworthy.  They might pull out some vital "psychic organs" in the process of the operation from Auda and/or Henrik.  
* He says that there will be some down time after the October incursion, and he would prefer not to risk Auda, Henrik, and Rebecca before then.