2.5 - Council Meeting, Friday, March 15, 1213AD

[amul]

@Jonathan.Link

But won't the wax tablets for recording the minutes melt?
And what happens in Council stays in Council, right?
Ra'am arrives fully clothed, but if everyone looks like they're disrobing, he'll do so, as well, and have a towel about him for modesty.

I'm not sure, but I think towels are anachronistic. ~shrug~ Whatever, you guys have towels.

@Arya

A description would be great .

@amul

...With that, she leads you into the house, down a set of steps into a series of natural caves beneath the manor proper. She pauses in one cave and indicates two possible paths. "That path leads to an underground hot spring, whose natural medicinal properties have been much enhanced by our covenant. If you lower your Parma while standing in the middle of the pool and praise Tyrion Lannister by name, you will find the bath exceedingly refreshing. There is another hot spring on the Left Side, but few find it as agreeable as the Right one. The regio is through this other path. Please link hands and step only where I step. The route is complicated, and requires us to walk backward at certain places, though it is less so if you have a bit of metal to see reflections in."
...
After a complicated series of steps amid stalagmites, which Viscaria thinks might be actually be danced as a jig, the color of the walls shift, and you find yourselves surrounded by ghostly warriors.... After a brief moment of tension, the ethereal guards relax their stance, and Claudia leads Cygna, Hiems and Viscaria to the Council Bath Chambers without another word.
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Shortly after turning at the fork, the stone has been smoothed into a proper corridor. The bath chamber itself is as large as a noble's dining room, with the hot spring at the far end. Only the first third of the room has been smoothed out, and the ceiling is still full of stalactites. Stonemason tools are scattered about, some growing dusty. A large pile of rubble sits to one side, overflowing and engulfing a rickety wheelbarrow.

The smoothed portion of the room contains an ornate stone table made of the same materials as the caverns, and five chairs.

Related:
The rather descriptive entry for when the 1st group of magi all arrived: 2.1 Preludes - Cijara / Phoenix Covenant - #30 by amul