Timeline 6.1

Shortly after Ginnie's slightly wobbly walk through the Pattern, everyone takes a day of rest wherever they feel like it. Ginnie's is in Azeroth. Sally... vanishes.

She reappears in the flat of two people she's never met before; Bobbie and Orev - and apparently also somehow kicks out both that world's Jez and that world's Sally.

What happens next involves finding a strange paladinic power source stored in their flat, walking the Exalted Labyrinth and Bobbie being probably empowered by one of the 300 corrupted Exalted shards to make her an Abyssal, Orev finding out how to work the power source and realising that he always knew how to use the light saber that came with it, Sally over-using blood magic; and finally Sally discovering people who aren't afraid of going to Pern because they'll be eaten by lions/Impressed on by a dragon. (Please add details...  :) )

A month later, during which everyone is unable to access Sally's Realm, Sally hauls Ginnie into a new reality with them and proves that she isn't dead. Which is nice.

Thereafter, they play 'spot the Jez', and pop to Thirteenth Warrior-verse, where he is huddled in a small pile of leather, shivering, and muttering something about not having had a bath in weeks. The possible incoming hordes of fantasy Hela-worshipping Neanderthals is not exactly a bonus, but... eh. Note to all - whenever a Jez is lost in the multiverse, go look in that series of 'verses. He seems to be drawn to them.

Ginnie idiotically names the ASG, and his attention is drawn to them within the world. A short, brutal and very one-sided fight with the local inhabitants ensues, clearing out the blue fire taint hopefully before it's done anything terrible. The White Star piloted by one of his blue-eyed vampires is more tricky; Orev's using himself as a torpedo deals with most of it, and his light sabering the pilot dealt with the rest of it. Apart from the debris.

Fortunately, almost everyone is reasonably unhurt by it; a brief moment of Bobbie's ribs being splintered is promptly handed to one of the unfortunate opponents, whose ribcage promptly collapses. Then everyone pops back to Bobbie and Orev's prime 'verse.

Turns out that every place associated with Bobbie and Orev over the past five years had been burnt down shortly after they'd left; and that a phone number had been left for them to call - written in their neighbours' blood. This had been cleansed by the Aldermen (a society created to maintain the Masquerade-a-like) before the police got there; but Bobbie and Orev were currently listed as missing presumed...

On phoning the number, the lady on the other end informs Orev that he's going to hand over the gobstopper of paladinic power to her employer and no one else will be hurt. A bit of help from Orev's handy onboard computer and Ginnie's clairvoyance gets them a nice view of a concert, where Sagittarus is dancing and not actually singing along... She spots the clairv, and promptly shoots at Orev - from across the city - and manages to impale Jez with an ice spike. Because she's that kind of caring person.

Jez is healed - by the power of freezing and decaying a large chunk of Glasgow park - shortly thereafter, and admits slightly embarrassedly that yes, someone in the world he was on had muttered about him being marked by the Goddess of Death, something something dark side. Something to investigate later, we feel...

In the meantime, Orev asks the Aldermen nicely if they can possibly get some friends of his out of the line of fire, and we go to Stoke, to see if we can find out more about the GoPP.

This world's Wolf Shaman doesn't recognise Ginnie and Sally, but does point us towards Stone, of Stone House. Turns out that this Stone is in fact the same world-hopping werewolf who hangs out with a world-hopping Decados as the last three times we met him, and he points us to a gravestone. Of the Jon that Sally and Ginnie were meant to deliver a box to. That was about nine years old. That does explain why he never came back to collect them from the Rising Sun, at least...

There's a stash of weapons and kit in his grave - and also, sadly, an actual body, so... probably actually dead. But there's a few snippets in Orev's mind of memories that have been neatly removed that may yet give us somewhere to go.

The team take another poke at finding the Zodiac, and Ginnie recognises the shields as being created by someone she met a few years back and got on well with; so she has a nice chat with Virgo (whose 1980s style costume and hair have not changed; nor her Valley Girl mannerisms), and Virgo helpfully runs through a few details of who's who and who's there for this particular job. Then Virgo says she's got something important to do off-reality, so hops out - saying that the team will love the present she's getting them.

We take the opportunity to poke through Cancer's brain. Cancer is... well. He's not a moron, because that implies some kind of human thought patterns. Following some discussion, Ginnie asks Cancer in as close to Virgo's mind-voice as she can manage to help her with Scorpio (who's previously been enthusiastically horrible to Sally, so, you know.)  He promptly attacks Scorpio, and the ensuing fight is very interesting and helpful - though it does end up with Capricorn being called in; one of their Big Names.

When Ginnie's clairv is bumped out (some things are just harder than her, and she's prepared to admit it.  Unlike some, Sally.  :P), Glitch manages to hook into the hotel's CCTV - but just... one room over.

Where Gemini is.

Brutalising and sacrificing young girls.

Target acquired.

After taking some much-needed downtime (...okay, having a kip in a hotel) Ginnie (a morning person) leaves Sally (a duvet person) to sleep and goes to see if Orev and Bobbie are interested in exercise. Bobbie (a hide-under-pillows-till-the-mean-light-goes-away person) declines; Orev (a not-morning-but-persuadeable-to-spar person) agrees. They have a chat about whether Sally and Ginnie's relationship is co-dependent and abusive (summary: probably, but we're not gonna do anything about it, kthxbye) and Sally, dragged awake by the mean people talking, decides to go meditate in the garden. Where, inexplicably, there is a giant rainstorm going on. Sally pokes it, and gets slapped down; then retaliates - whereupon she gets lightning bolted for her pains. Orev is a little upset with her over this, she is a little upset with Orev; so she heads to Pern for a cooldown and recovery, while Orev, Bobbie (now awake and only slightly blurry because of it) and Ginnie go to Stone, to see the epicentre of the storm.

Bobbie and Jet (a vampire werewolf with a terrible temper) get on very surprisingly well; Jet is prepared to let Orev and Ginnie have a brief chat with Thea, the daughter of Thor, who was apparently using the storm to create a sword. Apologies are exchanged, and then as they leave, the sound of pan pipes lingers in the air. Capricorn is present, and offers a meal and a chat; because why not, really. Sally returns, less charred, and asks for a baked potato. Capricorn looks amused.

Anyhow. The summary of the conversation is thus - Capricorn doesn't particularly mind who gets the GoPP, but he's prepared to offer a way out in exchange for access to it and nominal ownership of it. Orev doesn't agree, and calls in Aidan Aderyn. Capricorn leaves us to Phoenix' tender mercies; and Phoenix shoots Sally and Ginnie to other realities and de-powers them. Fortunately, Sally lands in Disneyworld. Unfortunately, Ginnie lands on board BSG.

Aidan agrees to give Orev some support (read: Lios Defarge and Alyssa van Gelder) on the lunchtime meeting with the Zodiac at Trafalgar Square; and then generously brings Sally and Ginnie home before the spell would naturally have worn off. Ginnie is a trifle vexed over the whole thing, and restricts her combat involvement to non-psychic things - not least because she's scared of Lios, okay? Fortunately, as the primary combat was going to be with Cancer and Gemini, being a WoW paladin is a pretty good setup; and Lios and Alyssa agree to cover Saggitarius. it turns out, though, that Scorpio was being used as a backup plan - and he's in Glasgow...

Sally and Bobbie pop to Glasgow to see what they can do about holding him up while Orev and Ginnie deal with the London fight. Orev and Cancer fight to a stand-off by the power of AP and high-ex rounds and the fact that Cancer is honourable to a fault; and Ginnie manages to hold off Gemini briefly by hiding in a Palabubble. Orev, following up a conversation they'd had previously, confirms that she's invulnerable right now, and then asks his GoPP to imbue his flamer with holy fire to take down Gemini.

Sadly, it over-reacted slightly; and Holy Nova-ed about a quarter of London, evaporating a number of people on the way through...

Bright side, Gemini's basically a smear for the moment, and definitely sent back to the underworld for a bit.

Meanwhile, In Glasgow, Sally demands Scorpio show himself and fight her; and gets a little bit poisoned for her pains. She promptly hauls everyone else to her, and Orev and Cancer take down Scorpio messily and surprisingly quickly.

A few minor kerfuffles later, everyone is in the same place at the same time, Ginnie being plus some kit from Ussura and the party being plus Geb's Yu Shan security guy. I mean, we're in Westeros, but at the end of the day, what's the odds that some plot will hit us here? Seriously, it's not like there's much to worry about.

It turns out that what to worry about is a series of bounces that lead us to a place where a possible Arthur analogy is fighting the armies of ... er, Death? Maybe? Anyhow. A whole pile of people who ping our 'probably on the side of good' expectations are about to do a desperate last stand. This means that Sally volunteers to evac as many of them who want to walk out and have a chance to live and spread the word and, you know, carry on being immortal elves and things.

This... ultimately leads to Sally burning out her will and determination in order to make the jump with thousands of people.

This wouldn't be a problem, were it not for the fact that we put the thousands of elves in Southern Continent Pern, and we plus one elf end up on probably-Grail, in Fading Suns. Considering the slightly dubious situation with Aderyn, Orev calls him. Aderyn promptly arranges to have us dropped off on Malignatius, as a nominal safe place which no one cares if we fuck up because who really cared about that vodka brewery anyhow.

Some discussions end up with the team deciding to stay on-world because the driver wasn't really in a fit state to drive; and taking a trip down memory lane to open up sealed bits of 'what happened to us in the Labyrinth'.

After a slightly unfortunate incident involving the hunger demon who mostly controls the metaphorical Umbra on Malignatius, Ryan deciding to take a cheap shot, and eighteen hours of the Culling of Stratholme later, Aderyn is sad that he lost the sweepstake on how long it took for Team Us to fuck up Malignatius entirely. We have a slight disagreement relating to basic principles; and Orev takes some time out.

After a bit of a chat afterwards, we went back to Anglesey and now plan on talking to Alexander the Tower to see how much he knows about Bobbie...

Alexander knew a few hints - enough to say that she was pretty definitely Exalted of some kind, and was pretty definitely not horribly Wyrm tainted. At the moment. Then Sally mentioned that she knew something about one of the Great Corax Secrets, and Alexander offered her a Spirit Egg, in a very 'shoot 'em or recruit 'em' kind of way. He offered Orev one as well; and the party left (after excellent cake) to consider the matter.

They dropped by Biers, where Ginnie vanished into a back room and wasn't seen again for a few days. Meantime, the others found out something about opals?

When they reconvened, meeting up at the church where the Hunters hang out on the Strand, it was for Sally and Orev to finalise whether to accept the Corax eggs. Sally agreed enthusiastically; Orev declined regretfully. Then they went back to Anglesey via the Sally Bus, and Sally planned out where to hide the egg. Ginnie 'fessed up to going back to Queen Ananasa, and they found that the caern was closed. (Asleep?) This made it a little harder for Sal to get into the Umbra; so Orev tried, and ended up circling Mercury. No, we're not too sure either. After a Sal Grab 'n' Drag special, he and Ginnie ended up in the Poppy Field, outside the Dark Tower. The Crimson King was in fine fettle... Sal tried again, and got three people in the same place at the same time, and Ginnie in Arran in Anglesey 'verse. Ginnie started to make her way home by herself, and then everyone was shifted into the Umbra by the power of magic. Thanks, Sal! Then Sal hid her egg in a Safe Place.