Dionysus The ship you're working on is getting to the stage where the engineers are either waiting on supplies or trying to figure out the next step. Mux & Katzenheim are getting their places situated, & your presence is not necessary. You can stick around & offer further aide anyway, or you can ask the airship crew to take you to Ienova, where the band went.

Dionysus Or something else.

Sue How much of the Whipporwill crew is working on the Opus?

Dionysus They're mostly on the waiting for supplies end, so very few. The engineer is working with Katzenheim & the others, but he's expendable.

Sue I'll go to Ienova. I'll take the airship if it won't delay construction, otherwise a train.

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Dionysus You land outside the golden city of Ienova.

Sue I start asking people if the Color of Sound is in town.

Sue If they've seen them.

Dionysus After a short bit, you hear that they had a gig at the Golden Disk last nigth.

• Sue goes there and asks after them.

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Dionysus the Never's tent stands out like a beacon. It's not void, but it's similar. A strange energy that devours all around it, giving off an eerie light that is between void & magic.

Dionysus Quaigor: Do not enter.

Dionysus The Never says nothing

Sue . o O ( What would happen if I entered? )

Dionysus Quaigor: You would cease to be. The Never: You & I would become one.

Sue . o O ( Permanently? )

Dionysus Both: Yes.

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Sue . o O ( Was anything left behind when Ie was destroyed? )

Dionysus Debris.

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Dionysus I can show you how.

Sue . o O ( Please. )

Dionysus Meditate.

Dionysus You see the symphony, as before.

• Sue sets the baton down and surveys them.

Dionysus Quaigor directs your attention to the structure the symphony is in, which, if worked right, will muffle the "sound" getting out.

Dionysus The Never offers to do it for you.

Sue "How long will this last?"

Dionysus Both indicate that it will be under your control.

• Sue defers to the Never's guidance, then.

Dionysus Quaigor seems displeased, & the Never indicates that to turn it off & on, you need to pray to him. You come out of trance.

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Sue That night, Sue will try to speak to his patrons.

Dionysus What's he say?

Sue . o O ( There are some things that you do not agree on. )

Dionysus Many things. Yes.

Sue . o O ( I do not wish to be a point of contention. )

Dionysus Never: Then say my Name. Quaigor: Give him an outsider's name.

Sue . o O ( Since you are not fully in agreement, there is the issue of my faith. Until recently, I have kept out of the matters of gods. Both of you have invited my prayers, but I am the void-father's vessel. If I were to say the Never's name, and became a point of contention thereafter, the potential for mutual interference would be terrifying. )

Dionysus Quaigor: You said my name. You are mine. Give him an outsider's name & banish him. Never: I am here by his invitation. He has grown jealous of our bond, for I offer greater power than he has. Make me part of your world, & I will ensure your victory.