- Our current situation:*
Mogg is on the south end of the island, spring, growing
Mabnoss is on the northern end of the island, shrouded in darkness, Mogg’s wife, probably
The three ladies are in the middle
A cycle of life? Life and death? Some sort of magnetic force in the middle?
Was Mogg the seven faced man or had he hosted him?
We heard about the 7 faced man from the three women. They told us he came to the well. Lately, there was a group that came.
Likely that the 7 faced man is The Abbott?
- Past options:*
Go to Monsoth and help with refugees
Pursue the source of he black water
Agiocochook (sp?)
Black water goes out to the north west
Pursue the disappearance of a very young child
Ktewdler gave us the sense that The Black Water and the missing child are related
- Bronze weaponry*
She tells us her insight into her dream and how she interprets bronze weapons being special, and that her former iron armor was holding her back.
We examine the chessboard.
You find the chess pieces laid out in a different pattern than the one you left them in, and for the first time you notice that the figures seem to come from at least two sets. While both sets have been carved in the same style, each color has two distinct shades: the light pieces have both a newer set that looks yellow/gold, there are other pieces which look older, and are bleached out. The dark pieces also have one set that looks to have been painted with a charcoal like substance, the other was stained a dark crimson, like a setting sun.
Charcoal & crimson pieces for black
- Crimson reminds B of the Red Blade
Ivory & Yellow gold
- Silas father carved pieces of walrus tusks
- Black water seems to bleach the color out of things
- Yellow is bronze?
We roll for perception
Cricket notices the rook IS the one around his neck that the black pawn next to it is working in tandem.
B thinks that the two knights on the bottom half of the board are accompanying each other and trying to do teh same thing while the two white pawns are heading toward the white knight. Two pawns of the same color are attacking a knight of the same color. Black knight is supporting the white knight
Are there four players?
Silas notes that the white queen (ivory) has three faces and seems to be protecting the king (charcoal)
Krambler feels that somehow we are all represented on the board.
Cricket: “we are pawns” in this game
Storr feels if she were a piece, she would be a knight.
Some connection between the old primordial gods and the darker charcoal pieces. Newer or false gods vs old.
B thinks perhaps gold represents the Sun King
K also notices that when he looks at the board there is a black charcoal bishop (Mali?) that was removed and a red crimson knight was just knocked off the board.
B thinks that B is the ivory knight, two gold pawns attacking him are forces of the sunking. Store is the charcoal knight.
Red crimson knight is the red blade?
Charcoal rook and pawn is Cricket and Kevan.
We talk about Krambler’s dream
We talk about B’s dream.
B also found a crumpled piece of paper with a poem on it.
THE POEM:
We head back to down the path back to the boats and see the three women. We ask the three ladies at the well about teh three faced queen. Storm: “We dont meddle in the games of your kind.”
We head north along the path and come to the derwen grove.
Mannix goes swimming again and finds the passage blocked.
Balthazar ruminates on the chessboard layout and notices the White Knight (ostensibly ivory) seems to actually be made of wood. He also notices that the crimson pawns do not appear to be players in the game; but rather form a path apparently leading to the 3-faced White Queen.
Three knight viking looking things crawl out of the fire and surround her.
We fight them.
There are interesting bits of wood with writing on them. Mannix takes another swim underneath an almost new moon. He finds nothing. The embers are warm to the touch and contain shards of obsidian. We take some with us.
We hop in the boats and make it to the mouth of the river to the north west.