Dawn of the Third Age/IC Logs/Session 39

~Anshu: The Deliberative Hall is an impressive place, built almost ten years ago. It's laid out much like a stadium, but instead of being ringed with simple benches, a few more than 700 platforms are attached to the walls. At the center sits another platform, similar in design but larger.

~Anshu: While in theory, each of the platforms on the walls is for a single Celestial Exalt and retinue, many stand empty, as mates, friends, and advisors share platforms and speak with each other, or are occupied by Terrestrial and even mortal spectators.

~Anshu: The central platform bears the Grand Circle, who watch as the other members of the Deliberative and honored guests enter the chamber through the large double doors.

~Anshu: A mortal aide guides Brazen to an unoccupied platform and informs him that sitting is acceptable.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen sat down, idly hanging his legs over the edge of the platform

Nomoe_Hideaki: enters the hall attended by a large retinue of aides and bannermen, as usual, and makes his way to the platform marked with his personal banner.

Bushranger is now known as Shrike

Nomoe_Hideaki: His robes are rich enough to beggar even all but Yu-Shan's wealthiest gods and the subtle power of his Charms surrounds him like a mantle of glory.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen personally thinks that Nomoe is trying too hard, but then, the Devil-Tiger was a constant multicoloured supernova in moderately humanoid form.

~Anshu: Nomoe's Charms glow all the more brightly as the power woven through the architecture of the hall picks out and makes visible the ones that bend the mind of those who look upon him.

faustus21 is now known as Wandering

Nomoe_Hideaki: Which is none - Nomoe's Charms merely allow him to express his natural abilities and gifts to their greatest possible extent.

Nomoe_Hideaki: For now, that is.

Wandering: Wandering takes another platform next to Brazens it might have been nice to share but Brazen did fill his platform well, she listened to the buzz of conversation around her and observed the movements of other exalts as they talked among themselves. She wears a far simpler dress than she did at the party seeming a newer version of the traveling clothes she prefered to wear.

Shrike: Among those already present in the chamber is a svelte, yet curvaceous redheaded woman, a dress of black silk somehow both modestly and provocatively wrapped around her figure. She looks over at Brazen's brazen display of casualness, arching one eyebrow in mild curiosity.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen caught her glance and winked with a smirk.

Shrike: She chuckles softly, smirking before looking over at the others entering.

~Anshu: At last everyone who is supposed to be there, is there. Ziyad stands on the central platform to address the assembled Exalted and spectators. His voice, though pitched at a normal, conversational level, carries easily throughout the hall, and an oversized image of himself appears above and around him, the better to be seen.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen's entire body was suddenly covered in Old Realm script that described the proper ettiquette of the chamber they were all in.

Brazen_Sand: Flowing as holographically as Ziyad's image of himself.

~Anshu: "Fellow Deliberators and honored guests, welcome. This session of the Celestial Deliberative will now begin. Much extraordinary news has come to us, these past few weeks. News that the Silver Prince's fleet is sailing Earthward, replacing the Wyld-tainted waters with choked and brackish shadowland seas;

~Anshu: "News that a Directional Titan discovered and recovered, snatched from the hands of Infernal Exalted plotting to wreak havoc on Creation in service to the Yozis;

Nomoe_Hideaki: frowns at the news. He'd hoped the conflict in the West would take longer to ripen into war - now his crusade will have to compete with a threat like this for resources.

~Anshu: "And news that Kaida Vanida, the Scarlet Empress, has been captured alive, and is apparently not an akuma, as was mistakenly revealed in a previous, closed session of this body."

Shrike: The redhead, listening quietly, looks up in surprise at this particular revelation.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen just sat back and put his claws behind his head, ready for the praise to start flowing in.

~Anshu: "For the first, we have already dispatched the sea and sky fleets to meet the Deathlord's navy. The second and third are among the things we are gathered to discuss, though we are still awaiting results from a more in-depth examination of the Empress's essence."

~Anshu: Ziyad turns. "Master Anshu, as High Priest of the Sun, would you lead us in prayer for Heaven's blessing on our deliberations before we begin in earnest?"

~Anshu: Anshu nods and stands himself as Ziyad sits back down. He raises his hands and turns his face to the sky. "Glory be to the Most High, our Lord the Sun, and those who sit as his peers: Luna, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. May they bless us with virtue, wisdom, and foresight as we fulfill the Mandate of Heaven, to rule and safeguard this Creation."

Nomoe_Hideaki: brings his hands together and speaks the words to an old prayer of his own under his breath Shrike: also whispers a prayer, matching Anshu's words with her own, her head bowed respectfully

~Anshu: With the prayer said, Anshu sits again, and Ziyad rises once more to open the session. "Let the floor now be opened to debate on the disposition of the Directional Titan. Is there any who wishes to speak first?"

Nomoe_Hideaki: gives a small but unmistakable nod in Ziyad's direction, indicating that he wishes to speak

~Anshu: Ziyad nods in kind. "Deliberator Nomoe Hideaki has the floor," he announces before resuming his seat to listen.

Nomoe_Hideaki: Hideaki of House Nomoe rises and addresses the Deliberative: "My fellow Deliberators, friends and allies under the Most High. Fifteen days ago news reached me ..." And he proceeds to lay out the events that led to the capture of the titan (and the Scarlet Empress), subtly emphasizing his own role but praises Deliberator Wandering and Brazen Sand for their contributions.

Wandering: Wandering listens carefully to Nomoes words and nods in agreement with them if she spots anyone looking her way

Shrike: The redhead indeed looks to the others as they're mentioned, her eyebrow raised in interest as the story is told, but refrains from comment for the moment.

Nomoe_Hideaki: "... and so it is with with great pleasure that I give this priceless wonder of the First Age into the responsible hands - the only worthy hands! - of the Celestial Deliberative." He pauses a beat to allow the applause to die down.

Nomoe_Hideaki: "With the Scattered Petals of the Thousandfold Blossom to guard the Eastern direction, as it was meant to since that time, I'm sure that this new age will soon be one of peace and prosperity not seen in a thousand years - and to all those still assaulted by the tides of the Wyld, trapped with the hideous Raksha, I am sure this will be a ray of hope since their salvation is near."

Shrike: "It's good to know that the defense of the East is in capable hands," the redhead finally speaks up, nodding in approval.

Brazen_Sand: Brazen applauded as well, glad that Nomoe was doing the responsible thing

Wandering: Wandering notes the exalt who spoke first making a note to check on who she was, it could be useful to know who ones allies are she adds her own words of approval and aplauds with the others

~Anshu: "Should we not begin to move the Titan to a more central location as soon as it becomes operational, in case the Black Fleet slips past our forces?" asks the Lady of the Rooks, a Lunar admiral.

Nomoe_Hideaki rises again to address that point. "I would not claim that this course of action would be strategically unfeasible, but we do have to take into consideration that the Scattered Petals cannot move as quickly as our fleets. In fact its speed limits its range of operations quite a bit - which is, I believe, why the old Deliberative created one for every direction. And the center direction is well protected by the Sword of Creation ..."