Discord in Harmonia

0 kgp / 20 kxp Harmonia (Twilight)

Vesuvius: god who owns Harmonia

Dramaticulan: cleric of Vesuvius (f 56)

Melifluoso: king of Harmonia (m 26)

Cardialissimo: kingís half-brother (m 38)

Quadrafillian: Cardialissimoís mother (f 58)

Tobiallino: half-wit who tends chimes (m 26)

Drappallianan: exiled cleptomaniac (f 21)

Sessilino: kingís late mother

Jobialinio: Harmoniaís fastest runner (m 23)

Paraparalastiono: Ally of Cardialissimos (m 64)

Galatin: owl deity, familiar to Dramaticulan

Harmonia's world is Twilight (TW). Its axis of spin is 0 degrees and its rotation is locked to its revolution around its sun, so that the same half of the planet always faces towards the sun, and the other half faces away. There is no day or night, only an eternal twilight on the equator, which is the only habitable portion of the planet. Gravity 0.7 ms-2, Wind 0.2 Y, Repulsion 0.1. Cliffs fall to the north of Harmonia, blocking the cold, and the land slopes down to an inland sea. All the plants grow facing the sun.

It is illegal to shed blood in Harmonia. It is illegal to eat meat. It is illegal to commit any act of violence, even in self-defence. The Harmonians keep animals for milk only. They are tall, slim, healthy. Their skin is black. They speak a latin dialect with heavy accent (african). All their buildings are air-tight for the hot and cold storms. Reading and writing are forbidden except for the king and his heir and the cleric.

The Open Worlds:

100 gods

10 gods on the council

10 executives per council-member

100 representatives per executive

100 informers per representative

100 people per informer

= 100 million people

Harmonia:

10,000 people

100 informers

1 representative (Dramaticulan)

Harmonia must pay $100k per year per tweny people, or $50M a year to Olympia to avoid keeping 500 soldiers for the gods. Thatís $5000 per person per year.The king is in charge of the accounts, but Dramaticulan checks them. They export the local wood. It grows in the valley despite the hot and cold storms. The wood is a product of the former-celesti, and is therefore of no nutritional value to terran species. It is so hard that it can sometimes substitute for metal. They make wind-chimes out of it, and the Olympian summoning agencies use it to make ironwood armor. But there are larger sources of the same wood on Twilight, and the wood can also be grown on other planets, to which it has been transplanted. Export grain and their special shade from mountains. The shale has a multicolored sheen.

Lottery in Pakesh, sixteenth year, winner gets to come with his family to spend a month in Harmonia staying at the kingís palace and attending the festival. A conjunction nearby Pakesh will take them home. There are 1000 tickets $1000 each. This brings in $1M towards the $50M target.

Money is tight. Gods like the place, but it is heavily in debt: $100 M and rising $10 M a year with full demand for stone, wood, and the lottery.

The god Thor obtained the country from another god for next to nothing. But he had to promise to try and keep Harmonia as it is. But it is costing him a fortune. He has to provide the 500 soldiers. At this point, with the country $100M in debt, he will turn a blind eye to a murder, a rebellion, and the birth of violence to get him out of this money-losing culture without the censure of her peers.

The Harmonians are unaware of the change in their gods. They call their god Vesuvius, and refer to Vesuvius as a woman.

Quadrafillian persuades Tobiallino that Drappallianan will be allowed back from exile if Cardialissimo becomes king. Tobiallino, who is an idiot, agrees to kill Melifluoso, whome he has always hated for his own idiotís reasons. He waits until the lottery winners are staying. Uses a knife from one of their rooms, up in the balconies where the winners are first to find the body one night. Thus incriminated: weapon, present at the scene, and capable.

Melifluoso used his slight-of-hand to fix the lottery to get party here because he feels unsafe. Fears his brother. He should be fearing his half-mother.

Cardialissimo is secretly martial. Has equerries with whom he wrestles and boxes. But has no intention of killing his brother, nor would he look upon such a murder with anything but horror. He will be the most fervant persuer of the apparent killers.

Melifluoso: ëI am king with no bodyguard, I fear sometimes for my life, I feel safe with you.í

Heís read about them, he has access to the forbidden, such as writing and literature and magazines from pakesh.

There is only one severe punishment in Harmonia: exile by the East Gate. The enforcer of law is a demigod in the form of a large barn-owl who has the power to cast enveloping sponge. Enough to get the offender off to the exile gate. This will fail with the party, so Thor sends, on this pretext, twenty knights to enforce the judgment of the people against them in the murder. In doing so, he hopes he will destroy the Harmonian culture, and be able to transform the place into a money-earner.

The Knights:

Heavy warhorses guzzeling grain

All black like the harmonians

Men who want to eat meat, so kill animals

A team that has fought in many engagements together for Vesuvius, but fallen into disfavor for pillaging a friendly town over a slight to one of their members. Ideal material for this job.

Local woman swoon

Captain Kandogamantis

His orders are to take the murderers captive and exile them.

Thor is ignorant of the nature of the party unless informers let her know of the party showing their prowess.

To come to Harmonia, party must swear not to spill any blood in anger, no exceptions and no clauses, not even for self-defence.

Kandogamantis has no respect whatsoever for pacifists. He expects his men not to kill any locals, nor rape women, but thatís it. He takes over the palace if he sees itís possible.

Because the party is gating into Harmonia, they have no summoning bridges.

Kangomantis a 10, f 10

Others a 5, f 5

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June 9, 1999

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