Though the shards of time….

BGA 1 (3 of points)

1. USD negotiations

2. Type of BGA group, investigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Me (Grayer)

3. DescriptionAye, Rosie, Dr. J Jack and myself will travel to USD in an attempt to begin to politically stabilize the thread, and determine if Mesmer’s influence is spreading. Also will attempt to find out if other hostile threads are negotiating for biological weapons. We will be accompanied by 5 Templars acting as security and an honor guard

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Organizational Resources 3, Favor 3. Contacts: Denver Templars

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Jack, Rosie, Aye, Dr. J

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA? Andy

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 2 (2 of points)

1. Dreamwalk

2. Type of BGA investigative

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead? Me

3. DescriptionWith the help of Kamiko from the Rising Sun, Grayer, Dale and Miryam will attempt to enter the Dreamlands and find out more about the Spider cult.

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Supernatural 1

5. Are you expecting a reply? Yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Kamiko, Miryam, Dale

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA? Anandi

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 3-4

BGA 3 (1 of points)

1. Investigate Unreal DC

2. Type of BGA group, investigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Dale

3. DescriptionFind out more information about the Unreal DC hubs and the engram boards “dale” and “grayer”

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills:Hypertech engineering, social

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Dale

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 4 (1 of points)

1. The V plot

2. Type of BGAinvestigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Me

3. DescriptionIn an attempt to dispose of and discover the source of UFP’s V supply, I will be “selling” V to contacts of Dale’s for destruction. I will attempt to find out the source of the V in UFP as well. NOTE: Smiley has been assigned as security during the deals so he’ll likely come along. I have no intention of briefing him on this plan.

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Social, general conniving. Contacts: Dale, Smiley

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Dale

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 5 (1 of points)

1. Tweenwalk to Dogtown

2. Type of BGAinvestigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Miryam

3. DescriptionTweenwalk around Boston and try to find Dogtown

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Tweenwalk 2

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Miryam

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 6 (1 of points)

1. Denver Templars

2. Type of BGA fyi

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?

3. DescriptionMaintain presence and control over the Denver Templars

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Social 2, knowledge of the future

5. Are you expecting a reply? no

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved?

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?Kammer

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already?6+

BGA 1 (1 of points)

1. Sabotage Dark’s casino

2. Type of BGA group, investigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Me (Grayer)

3. DescriptionAt the request of Rosie, this is initial recon to determine the best way to sabotage Dark’s casino in Vegas. Given it’s Dark, this is very under the covers, but we need to take the thing down before Funfair

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Orginizational Resources 3, Favor 3. Contacts: Dale and Falco

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Falco

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA? Dog

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 2 (1 of points)

1. Templar cult

2. Type of BGA FYI

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?

3. DescriptionContine to devote time an resources to the Denver Templar cult. Also to induct Nick Wolfwood and Dimetri into the cult

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Social, general conniving, future knowledge

5. Are you expecting a reply? no

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved?

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA? Kammer

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 6-7

BGA 3 (1 of points)

1. Investigate the Spider Cult

2. Type of BGA group, investigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Me (Grayer)

3. DescriptionContinue to investigate the Spider Cult that’s focused on Karen, specifically to try to tween walk to the Dreamland

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Tweenwalk 2. Contacts: Marie and Jack

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Marie, Dale, Jack

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 5+

BGA 4 (1 of points)

1. Remember if I killed Sykes’ wife

2. Type of BGAinvestigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?

3. DescriptionMeditate and try to remember if I ever had anything to do with Skyes’ wife’s death

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Historian

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved?

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 5 (1 of points)

1. Try to remember if Bud/Al were ever mentioned in relation to the Event

2. Type of BGAinvestigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?

3. DescriptionVia research and meditation, try to remember if Al or Bud were ever mentioned in relation to the Event

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Historian

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved?

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already? 0

BGA 6 (1 of points)

1. Planes in the Tween

2. Type of BGA group, investigate

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Jack

3. DescriptionFly through the tween, looting aircraft and having adventures

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Tweenwalk 2, balls of steel. Contacts: Jack

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Jack

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?Kammer

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already?2

BGA 7 (1 of points)

1. Jailbreak Cava

2. Type of BGA group, influence

2a. If this is a group BGA, who is the lead?Miryam

3. DescriptionAssist with breaking Cava out of jail

4. Relevant stats or contacts:Skills: Tweenwalk 2. Social 2, firearms 4, linguistics 5

5. Are you expecting a reply? yes

6. if this is a group bga, who else is involved? Unknown

7. Which GM(s) do you believe is in charge of this BGA?

8. How many BGA points have you spent on this already?Unknown

I have 8 BGAs

BGA 1

1. Type of BGA: Influence
2. Short Description: Train the Templars chosen from the Denver Cult. Enhance my status
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Social, general conniving, future knowledge
4. Where are you doing this thing: Denver cult
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Cause things in the world to change, sent information
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 2
7. Long description (if necessary): Train select members of the Denver Cult in my new Gospel: Fight the Technosphere, and only destroy corrupted Hubs. Of course, only I can determine if the Hubs are truly corrupted by the Technosphere’s influence.

BGA2

1. Type of BGA: Investigation
2. Short Description: Locate information at the Seventh Circle
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Victor Garibaldi
4. Where are you doing this thing: Manhattan
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 2
7. Long description (if necessary): Investigate the Seventh Circle and try to find cluse as pre the mysterious radio broadcast

BGA 3

1. Type of BGA: Investigation,
2. Short Description: Help Jack with the planes trapped in the Tween
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Tween Walking
4. Where are you doing this thing: the Tween
   
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent Information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA:1
7. Long description (if necessary): Assist Jack with exploring aircraft trapped in the Tween. Gain skills in Tween walking

BGA4

1. Type of BGA: Investigtion,
2. Short Description: Dale’s Mom
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence,
4. Where are you doing this thing: LA
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Investigate what Dale’s mom (my daughter) was working on and how it ties to the spider cult

BGA5

1. Type of BGA: Investigtion,
2. Short Description: Shadowman Dale hub
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence, hypertech
4. Where are you doing this thing: LA
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Help Dale investigate the Shadowman-Dale hub

BGA6

1. Type of BGA: FYI
2. Short Description: Grayer’s Boat
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence,
4. Where are you doing this thing: Tortuga
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: FYI
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Maintain and equip the boat I got from the slaver in Tortuga

BGA7

1. Type of BGA: Research
2. Short Description: The mystic in Laos
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence, Tween walking
4. Where are you doing this thing: laos
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Visit the blind Mystic in Laos and see if it has any bearing on the vision in my Spiritwalk

I have 4 BGAs

BGA 1

1. Type of BGA: Influence
2. Short Description: Train the Templars chosen from the Denver Cult. Enhance my status
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Social, general conniving, future knowledge
4. Where are you doing this thing: Denver cult
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Cause things in the world to change, sent information
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Train select members of the Denver Cult in my new Gospel: Fight the Technosphere, and only destroy corrupted Hubs. Of course, only I can determine if the Hubs are truly corrupted by the Technosphere’s influence.

BGA2

1. Type of BGA: Research
2. Short Description: Locate information on Dimarco
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Mason in ENY, research skills
4. Where are you doing this thing: ENY
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): After the Spiritwalk, I remember being accused of killing someone named Dimarco (Annie Walker’s husband). I want to find out how much of what I saw was accurate.

BGA 3

1. Type of BGA: Investigation,
2. Short Description: Trace my family history
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence
4. Where are you doing this thing: LA
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent Information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA:2
7. Long description (if necessary): The Spiritwalk also seemed to say that I may have a grandson…need to trace birth and marrage records and see what, if anything, I can find on my former wife and daughter.

BGA4

1. Type of BGA: Exploration,
2. Short Description: Area 51
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence, Tween Walking
4. Where are you doing this thing: tween
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary):General Sykes mentioned that Bud and Al had found a place corresponding to Area 51 in the 1950s. I’m going to tweenwalk there and look around.

But I know I’ve heard it before, somewhere…. I dreamed it last night. Inever have dreams like this.

Where…?

Past? Future? Does it matter?

As the wind chimes play along the breeze
Singing songs to stir the soul.
Rainbow colours entwined in fairytales
On the maypole…

Sing the song of lands from far away,
Other times and another place,
The wind can carry us all away from here
Charmed in her embrace…

Leaves turn to red, the nights are getting colder,
Seasons will change, the clock ticks on…
Leaves fill the trees as the days are getting warmer,
Days turn to years, the clock ticks on…

Cloak and dagger, no fear of freedom
Hearts beat in another time,
Ever changing, the clock ticks on,
If only in your mind…

The wind has died and the chimes are still again
The trees stand tall as they cover me in shade
In the mirror a maiden stares at me
As the secret fades…

And though the clock ticks on to the future
It’s in the past my heart will stay
In a time so far away from me
I’ll return someday…

Time travel is annoying. My past is everyone’s future…my death meaningless…but my clock ticks on toward the future…inevitably.

I have 4 BGAs

BGA 1

1. Type of BGA:  Influence
2. Short Description: Expand influence in the Denver Technology cult, try to attain a leadership position
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Social, general conniving, future knowledge
4. Where are you doing this thing: Denver cult
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Cause things in the world to change, sent information
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 2
7. Long description (if necessary): Based on previous investigative BGA, will not try to get to a position of leadership in the Denver cult, using future knowledge. Final goal is to take over the cult and change their philosophy so they will defend the Hubs, but be willing and able to fight the Technosphere. Will attempt to keep my influence out of the way of the other players that might be poking around Denver.
   NOTE: I have gotten no feedback on this BGA and have been putting point into it from my first game, accordingly I have no idea how successful, or not, it’s been

BGA2

1. Type of BGA: Scientific Research
2. Short Description: Recalculate the relevant equations for the Grayer Time machine aka ChronoJohn
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Physical or Theoretical Science,
4. Where are you doing this thing: Penn State or LA
5. What do you expect the outcome to be:  Sent information if required
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Try to get the damn thing to function…frack it! I KNOW this is supposed to work dammit!

BGA 3

1. Type of BGA: Investigation,
2. Short Description: Who exactly is “Jack”
   
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Social engineering, charm, Tween walking
4. Where are you doing this thing: Technosphere
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent Information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA:2
7. Long description (if necessary): I’ve had several pleasant conversation with “Jack” from the Oasis. She seems to be part Technomage and recently revived from the dead. She could be a good ally, especially against the Technosphere. I’m going to poke around and see what I can find out, without setting off any alarms, of course. Might be tricky, getting into Berkeley probably isn’t easy. Good thing time is so slippery I can just stroll over there….

BGA4

1. Type of BGA: Investigation,
2. Short Description: What’s up with UFP
3. Relevant Proficiency, Skill or Contacts: Intelligence, Social,
4. Where are you doing this thing: LA
5. What do you expect the outcome to be: Sent information from GMs
6. Maximum Points to devote to this BGA: 1
7. Long description (if necessary): Since I’m now an employee of UFP (however grudgingly), learn all I can about the corporation and my place in it. Perhaps even stooping to a bit of social engineering or network snooping. Right now, I’m flying blind, and I don’t like that one damn bit.

They called me Durandana, Drynwyn, Mjolnir, Kusanagi,  Mateba,  and Trih Xeem.  I think, however, the Magi of the Fifth order had it right. They called me “S’Pht xor Daymar” literally translated as “Root of Chaos”.  The Magi believe the the balance of three forces, dynamism, stasis and entropy. The turning of the wheel that guides all things. I am change, I am the disruptive influence that ripples though time.

I am not pure chaos, however, I am something different. Something out of time…a hybrid of man and god. I have died a dozen times, and will die a hundred times more. I was created out of the fires of a dying universe, to fit a pattern that my creators did not understand. Infinite loops across infinite fractal patterns. All if reality is mine..mine to change, mine to destroy mine to create.

I will live, in joy, in torment and everything in between, untill the quantum moment between end and beginning, dark and light. In the chaos of the new creation I will be like a god.

S’Pht xor Daymar has another translation; it means “Destiny”

These calculation are complicated, but I think killing Lawson(Lawton?) dropped the probabily of a TL7 war to 28%. I hope I’m right. The only real snag was that the LAPD called in the JET and they tracked me down. They don’t understand….no…I don’t understand. I saw them kill people in NOLA; shell entire city blocks…well, rationalizaion is useless. They don’t know what I know, and I can’t show them and they don’t trust me.

So now LA owns me, allegedly. They don’t know what to do with me either, which is fine. I like it that way.  I’ll need to talk to a few people.

Persephone

Annie Walker

Miryam

It’s time to stop assuming that these people know what’s going on. I though maybe I could just guide them and all would be good, but that’s obviously impossible. It’s time to take action

It’s time for them to see just what John E Grayer can do…

New Orleans fell according to schedule, the sun ritual corrupted by an malevolent god. Unfortunately, the JET appeared totally overwhelmed by the situation. This is not a good sign, the JET is the fulcrum; it must not fall.

If the JET falls, reality falls. I can’t let it happen. This cold war between LA and ENY pulls strength from the JET. You’d think that with Danzig, Mesmer, Apophis and everything else out there, they would be unified. I’m never surprised by humanity’s capacity for stupidity.

Fortunately, I have a contingency plan for this. I wish I could tell them everything, but they won’t understand. I need to figure out a way to show them…NOLA is nothing…a paltry million souls….by the end…….

….they’ll be just like me….