Nemnosti session 1

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Summary

• Ifa is instructed by Nemnu Ula and a disgruntled Bura Hazh to welcome Lovosa Halunemni as a new acolyte, the first of her lineage ever to study at Nemnosti. Ifa meets Lovosa and tours her around the ulajeta.
• Izu encounters Verga Dendorfi who bemoans his situation, trapped in a position where he is not trusted and with a girlfriend who may soon be married off. While they are talking they hear an argument about theology between Voices Kailas Nemni and Imas Mundurir.
• Alai is approached by Avrubai Dusmanis while she is working; he expresses interest in her work, their shared training at the Academy in Ardukh, their mutual love of swimming and the sea, and possibly more?[[
• Kuspir drills with Ghorgimbe Sortusai and]] Bem Pekai; they spar with a bubun that Ghorgimbe inexplicably calls 'uncle', and then Bem and Kuspir run laps of the ulajeta and she asks for Kuspir's help with her imperilled relationship with Momuzai Nemni.
• Jevai receives a gift of mushrooms from Naka Igriz via her amni, Ghoko, and then goes to dinner with Naka where they discuss unrest in the high hills, Faja-dur Chuchuru and her ongoing belief that her brother is alive, and the marriage prospects for Jevai's brother Pughan Nadenigh.

Session

Session date: February 4, 2024

Negili Reckoning date: IE 768, Fikho

Prologue

Welcome, acolytes! The road that heads east to west, uphill through Naftusa Province, from Ai Dandura at the east all the way up the Pardopasu, has many names, but most often it is just the West Road or the River Road. Once you leave Naftusa, it takes you through the rich beska fields owned by the Dendorfi and farmed by those whose loyalty they command. Then onward west into the village of Hertu, where many of the folks who support the ulajeta live. It's the start of the year, the month of Fikho in the Negili Reckoning, so the loza bushes are in bloom in early spring. From there, you wind around and down until the hard-packed soil road meets the Pasu River once more, down towards Nemnosti at the base of the Pardopasu, just before it climbs up into the Ghengom. The Outer Caves will be on your left here - here is where most of the ordinary Ancestors rest. A stoneguard may be outside, but often there's just a firm gate across the cave entrance to prevent intrusions. Wise heads know that the physical barrier is not the only defense. And then, at last, to the great gated entrance to Nemnosti itself, at the West Tower. It is a great structure built from local stone, four stories high and hexagonal, with a great fortified gate on the southwest face. Here, we find a scene where our own Ifa of the Nemni has come to greet a new and, until today, quite unexpected guest: Lovosa Halunemni, who, if the reckoners have calculated the descent right, would be the first biological descendant of the Grey Carver to ever set foot inside. Now pause: and let us walk upriver several hours, to earlier that morning, just past dawn.