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Old 04-04-2021, 05:27 AM   #161
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Convergence -2
The true machinations of the Cabal are something that the upper echelons of Infinity and Centrum don't ponder too deeply and may regret later.

The Cabal discovered the first history in Homelines 1897, although the Four Principles generally maintained the peace they did not prevent secret inter Lodge fighting.

Midwinter Atons seizing of a Shard of Heaven and destruction of a Sons of Imhotep coterie in the 1730s, uncovered a prize so great that it set Lodge against Lodge.

After a century of searching they found a reality described within the Shard, one where a Grand Convergence would occur in 1944, the first time in 1500 years. The Convergence aligned the distant Keppler Star with the Sun at the same time as a Great Convergence of Jupiter and Saturn with Earth.

The Grand Convergance travelling from the Decanic East to West between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, if sacred sites from China through Vietnam to Europe and across to America could be protected and aligned, this realities Decanic forces could be attuned, a world where the Greatest Works could be undertaken.

However this first prize was not to be, the retaliation of The Sons of Imhotep wrought more destruction than the machinations of humanity, a world now haunted by the Quippoth.

Midwinter Aton renewed its search, if one universe could yield such a rare divergent event then so could another, a few years ago they found it.

The Lodges Inner Circle decided that a different approach was needed, they had found this reality in its late 1930s and had less time, in the previous failed attempt the Sons had corrupted many powerful figures which had quickly led to a catastrophic global war. Subverting Nazi Germany had been relatively strightforward, their plan was to secure the sacred sites, prevent future events that subverted their Decanic influences and prevent the Sons from subverting a rival power.

Their studies of the future revealed that human meddling and The Cold wars in both indo-china and europe had destroyed the Decanic potential of these sites, in many Communist nations their being completely destroyed in anti-subversive purging.

On the surface killing Stalin and Mekhlis would strengthen Soviet Russia by empowering its Generals, however without the Cult of Personality, their ranks already decimated in the Red Army Purges and secret agitation from within, soon prompted paranoid surviving Red Army Generals to fractionalise and decend into infighting, some even purging Commisars in retaliatory revenge.

In New York rumours spread of the reappearance of the Tsarevich Alexi who had apparently and miraculously survived the 1918 Bolshevik assasination, the spectre of a new White Russia further split loyalties within the Red Army.

Aton steered the Reichs attention to securing its remaining territorial gains from Barbarosa and formenting a second Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia being the most suseptible to the Sons influence and potentially granting them future access to the Middle East if unchecked.

Mcarthys removal was important without him championing The Red Scare and fuelling the Domino Effect meant the Korean and Vietnam Wars could be softened or even prevented, the Lodges plans being to influence less reactionary US policy makers without the Senators rhetoric.

Eden had to go, a proponent of harsh penalities and reparations for Germany post war, that really wouldn't be helpful, in this world securing a strong germany post war following unilateral peace talks gave them leverage.

A Germany that could rebuild without Soviet occupation and act as a base for the Lodge to secure the Decanic sites for Great Works in a far more peaceful post war world.

Having engineered Japan into a hopeless position against the US this they foresaw would lead to the protection and access to areas in China, Vietnam and Korea, and access to European locations.

Their next targets being French policy makers who would try and reclaim Vietnam from the withdrawing Japanese and hard figures in Maos regime.

Of course this prize was a prize for all, learning from its errors Midwinter Aton has reached a mutual alliance with Elizabeth Bathory who is very interested in Saturns Decanic Convergance across this World in return for countering The Sons and has promised the watchful Invisible College access to Britain and Britannies sacred places for they're non-intervention.

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Infinity knows that the Cabal is undertaking something significant and suspect it has orchestrated the deaths of several key figures, that this hasn't affected any of the Reich's leaders is troubling as is the course correction on the Wehrmacht's strategy, on current projections it isn't enough to avoid defeat but it could lead to a less crippling outcome for Germany and an early end to WWII.

Standard survey is to check the Star Charts but everything appears normal, albeit some minor celestial movements being slightly ahead of Homeline but nothing concerning.

The I-cops have a feeling that something is very wrong but what and to what end, the fact that this is a low mana world is troubling obviously it is the favoured territory of The Cabal but what are they missing.
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Old 10-17-2021, 11:30 AM   #162
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This Q4 parallel is showing signs of out time interference. The local year is 1560, Elizabeth Tudor has recently come to the English throne. In most ways this is a typical TL4 England. However, someone has introduced the box bellows ( a Chinese device that fans the fire on both strokes, thus allowing far higher temperatures) and balloon frame building ( a TL5 building system, this in use today, that builds stronger houses with half the timber). England was already advanced in metallurgy compared to most of Europe in period, but they are pulling ahead faster. There is also a huge building boom.

Homeline is determined to find out what's going on.
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Old 10-21-2021, 11:44 AM   #163
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A surveilance party was working the parallel called Highjump (WWII lasted until 1947 as the allies had to dig out Nazi holdouts in Antarctica), specifically the nuclear wasteland of Antarctica, source of that world's kaijuu. There they discovered a base of the Penguin Collective from Merlin-1. Siezing the base, Infinity discovered that they had been harvesting eggs from the mutant penguins of that world.

So your team gets to go to the Antarctica of Merlin-1, a realm crawling with inhuman magic, and discover whether or not the Collective has added radioactive laser-eyed kaijuu-penguins to their hivemind, and deal with it if necessary.

Good luck. (You're doomed ...)
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