Rite of Feralia 1997
Participants: Seshemw/Paul, Seeker, Aken-Benu (I forget who that is!), Blinks-at-Fire, Su
Ritemaster: Tiy, NPC
GM: Sepdet

This year I used an NPC from the Wheel of Ptah to run the rite. The plan was for the NPC to be lost and for Sepdet to finish the rite (which she was just learning, quite possibly from her uncle.) Unfortunately, Anpwhotep decided to go after the NPC. Falling behind in Feralia is often fatal. He knew what he was doing… :(

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Feralia Conducted (IC) by Anubis
Participants: Sepdet, Su, Seeker, Rholeen, Isis/Traps-Fighter, Blinks-at-Fire, Paul/Seshemw/Shows-the-Way, Nekheb/Moyan Dashe, Anpwhotep (arrived late)
GM: Su, Sepdet

This was a complex, overly-ambitious ONS. The goal of this year’s Feralia was to give Blinks-at-Fire, a notoriously clueless half-moon problem cub, a second chance to prove himself after his first failed RoP. We needed him to be separated so that he couldn’t rely on everyone to tell him what to do or make his decisions. So we broke the Striders into 3 different groups. I also wanted to give Anubis a special scene of his own because normally he had to run everything.

To add to the complexity, I was trying (and failed) to give Eligio a chance to work in his non-wyrmy, enigmatic, maddening Eater of the Dead foil-NPC, Nekheb.

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Feralia Conducted and GMed by Anubis  (wiz-alt: Tarod)
Participants: Sepdet, Noor/Aset, Anpwhotep, Jeremy/Hand-of-Sekhmet (later died, player re-apped as Seeker), Su

Notes: Noor and Anpwhotep had recently rescued Sepdet from a nearly fatal adventure in Egypt; she had been captured and tortured by Dancers. She was still showing the effects.

Shepitra and the jars who keep popping up are references to Tarod’s foil-alt Warren Ramsey, Strider kinfolk –and something more — a priest of the old ways. He served in St. Claire as a coroner, and was also a gardener.

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Feb 23, 1994: “Sad Afternoon at the Caern”

Summary: The sept mourns the departure of the alpha, Horus, gone to Malfeas to try to rescue the Warder, Aspen, taken by the Enemy during the opening of the caern.

Notes: One of my few logs from the days of VAX. Sepdet had been on the MUSH for a week or so, and had been adopted by Renaissance (Toxic, Storm, Anpwhotep, and Ilyera.)

Seneca Falls was a Fury pack from the Sept of Gaia’s Bones, called in by Adrian Nightrunner, the new Warder, to bolster the caern’s defenses. Adrian had acted without telling anyone, and the Furies’ arrival was causing friction.

At the Sept of the Wheel Renewed, the following positions exist:

Sept Alpha (Leader of the Sept):     Horus (Galliard Silent Strider)
Claw of the Sept (First of Ahrouns): Banestriker (Ahroun Get of Fenris)
Talesinger (First of Galliards):     Windhowl (Galliard Fianna)
Keeper of Ways (First of Philodoxes):Arjun Fletcher (Philodox Glass Walker)
Master of Rites (First of Theurges): Warstripe (Theurge Get of Fenris)
Shadow Walker (First of Ragabashes): <Empty>

Caern Warder:                Aspen Demilune (Philodox Child of Gaia)
Groundskeeper:               Thorn Slowly Wins (Theurge Silver Fang)
Gatekeeper (Umbral Watcher): <Empty>
Master of Rites:             Warstripe (Theurge Get of Fenris)
Master of the Challenge:     Batrana Dracul (Philodox Shadow Lord)

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