User:Najawin/Sandbox 4

=Against Nature=

East
Primo Acamapichtli Isleño de la Vega stood at a fountain in San Miguel Coatlinchan and thought about water, how both science and faith had come to agree that water was the source of all life. Vehicles began to fill the square around him, and he thought back once more, to time spend at Rudolfo's place. And then, harder, to caves and lakes. Rudolfo had told him to see Ultima. And the rest of his memory was out of place. Acamapichtli, the first Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the founder of the Mexica dynasty hid in a cave, thinking about the world and the world beyond, and those points where they would meet. Primo turned and walked the streets towards home, and he sees it still in his mind's eye. A man comes to him, sensing he is troubled, which Primo assents to - the idea of becoming full Tlatoani for the Mexica, in his memories, discomforts his remembered self. And it discomforts him now, the realism of these visions, of a healer, a stranger coming to him, with a name of Serpentine Fire. The Primo of his visions explains how he has been cursed, and the healer extracts a tool from his robes, shaking Primo from his vision. A few minutes later he finds himself at his house, and walks in to his mother watching her telenovela. After reheating dinner, he tells her he's going to see Ultima.

North
Todd Calavero stepped out of his car before work and saw a girl with a dog. The spitting image of Selena and his old dog from childhood. Todd worked under the neon lights, spraying down dressers and chairs, moaning to his coworkers about how he should have stayed in school. Knocking off early, he thought back to a simpler time, with childhood acquaintances and an old dog, not as he is now, with a wife who refuses to talk to him and a life in neutral. Not long later he was at his house, and his mother asked him if he had called his wife. He insisted that he would call Selena the next day, three weeks in the house had past since the two decided to take some time apart. He took out some dead plants, asked his neighbor about his childhood friend, Hector, and began to turn inside just as the first raindrops fell.

West
Emioushameddhoran vel-Xianthellipse stepped slowly out into the Netherweald, the dying local spacetime where House Meddhoran had come to rest. She traipsed the forty seven steps to Rhodenet's hogan, down from forty eight the previous day. Recognizing his comment that her visits were becoming a nuisance, she mentions that their sister, Laethynrisa, has discovered another bellum notitia. Rhodenet makes his lack of enthusiasm abundantly clear, and Emiousha departs back to the chapterhouse. She climbed up, passing the nosocomion to find Laethynrisa ordering some drudges in hanging the bellum notitia. The tapestry shimmered as it told the story of the anchoring of the thread. Laethynrisa slumped over, and Emiousha worries. First the males die in the netherweald, and now the prospect too of a female childe dying to the killing blight?

Characters
Acamapichtli was the first Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the founder of the Mexica dynasty.

Primo Acamapichtli Isleño de la Vega

Todd Calavero

Emioushameddhoran vel-Xianthellipse

Rhodenetmeddhoran vel-Xianthellipse - uh, notes could be that he has some weird biodata mixed in, causing him to say odd turns of phrase for members of the Great Houses.

Concepts
Tlatoani - Acamapichtli was the first Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.

House Meddhoran - house seeded by Xianthellipse as an exercise in diversity, never amounted to much and so was banished to the Netherweald

Items
"bolt of stone with four hollows carved into its length. Its face was inlaid with an equal number of silvered thorns stood in a row, each projecting outwards like the needles of a young mizquitl tree." Ask around if anyone knows if this is a reference to something (maybe Nate, could be just a generic biodata tool).

Hogan - Rhodenet sewed together a hogan from various garments worn by Amonis, there was an interior and exterior.

Amaranth - shape of silver sphere, other stuff already on the page

Locations?
San Miguel Coatlinchan - a city (in Mexico?) with a status of "Chalchihuitlicue, the River Goddess"

Tenochtitlan - Acamapichtli was the first Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.

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