Discord in Harmonia

Discord inHarmonia

0 kgp / 20 kxpHarmonia (Twilight)

Vesuvius: godwho 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: owldeity, familiar to Dramaticulan

Harmonia'sworld 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 illegalto shed blood in Harmonia. It is illegal to eat meat. It is illegal to commitany act of violence, even in self-defence. The Harmonians keep animals for milkonly. They are tall, slim, healthy. Their skin is black. They speak a latin dialectwith heavy accent (african). All their buildings are air-tight for the hot andcold storms. Reading and writing are forbidden except for the king and his heirand the cleric.

The OpenWorlds:

100 gods

10 gods on thecouncil

10 executivesper council-member

100representatives per executive

100 informersper representative

100 people perinformer

= 100 millionpeople

Harmonia:

10,000 people

100 informers

1representative (Dramaticulan)

Harmonia mustpay $100k per year per tweny people, or $50M a year to Olympia to avoid keeping500 soldiers for the gods. Thatís $5000 per person per year.The king is incharge of the accounts, but Dramaticulan checks them. They export the localwood. It grows in the valley despite the hot and cold storms. The wood is aproduct of the former-celesti, and is therefore of no nutritional value toterran species. It is so hard that it can sometimes substitute for metal. Theymake wind-chimes out of it, and the Olympian summoning agencies use it to makeironwood armor. But there are larger sources of the same wood on Twilight, andthe 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 amulticolored sheen.

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

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

The god Thorobtained the country from another god for next to nothing. But he had topromise to try and keep Harmonia as it is. But it is costing him a fortune. Hehas 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 toget him out of this money-losing culture without the censure of her peers.

The Harmoniansare unaware of the change in their gods. They call their god Vesuvius, andrefer to Vesuvius as a woman.

Quadrafillianpersuades Tobiallino that Drappallianan will be allowed back from exile ifCardialissimo becomes king. Tobiallino, who is an idiot, agrees to killMelifluoso, whome he has always hated for his own idiotís reasons. He waitsuntil the lottery winners are staying. Uses a knife from one of their rooms, upin the balconies where the winners are first to find the body one night. Thusincriminated: weapon, present at the scene, and capable.

Melifluosoused his slight-of-hand to fix the lottery to get party here because he feelsunsafe. Fears his brother. He should be fearing his half-mother.

Cardialissimois secretly martial. Has equerries with whom he wrestles and boxes. But has nointention of killing his brother, nor would he look upon such a murder withanything but horror. He will be the most fervant persuer of the apparentkillers.

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

Heís readabout them, he has access to the forbidden, such as writing and literature andmagazines from pakesh.

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

The Knights:

Heavywarhorses guzzeling grain

All black likethe harmonians

Men who wantto eat meat, so kill animals

A team thathas fought in many engagements together for Vesuvius, but fallen into disfavorfor pillaging a friendly town over a slight to one of their members. Idealmaterial for this job.

Local womanswoon

CaptainKandogamantis

His orders areto take the murderers captive and exile them.

Thor isignorant of the nature of the party unless informers let her know of the partyshowing their prowess.

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

Kandogamantishas no respect whatsoever for pacifists. He expects his men not to kill anylocals, nor rape women, but thatís it. He takes over the palace if he sees itíspossible.

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

Kangomantis a10, f 10

Others a 5, f5

CopyrightKevan Sayed Hashemi,

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