## I : The Tower
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> [!info] Calcination
> Destruction of ego; burning away false identity | Breakdown of pride, structures, assumptions
> - Zodiac: Aries (♈︎)
> - Planet: Mars (♂︎)
> - Element: Fire 🜂
> - Metal: Iron
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- Location: The Bac
- Characters: Jasper; Bran; Robin; Leto
- Magic Elements:
- Bureaucratic resonance registration
- Vellum Mentis use restrictions
- Decimal calendar glitch
- Irony as metaphysical resistance
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### Beat Map:
- Jasper arrives at the Tower for his first day as a licensed mage.
- He’s proud, finally feels like he belongs.
- Robin intercepts him: a bureaucratic error has voided his license.
- his birthday is wrong
- Jasper argues; insists he’s ready.
- Bran arrives, checks the forms, confirms the glitch.
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- Without emotion, Bran tells him to go home.
- bran and Robin send him to the DMV
### Thematic Notes:
- The Tower isn’t destroyed—it ignores him.
- Introduction to systemic absurdity.
- Pride undone not by failure, but formality.
- Signals Jasper’s deepening disillusionment with Roman structure.
## II : The Moon
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> [!info] Dissolution
> Disintegration of form; merging into chaos | Loss of self; emotional overwhelm
> - Zodiac: Cancer (♋︎)
> - Planet: Moon (☽)
> - Element: Water 🜄
> - Metal: Silver
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- Location: Moon Baths, northeast Upper City, Lindum Colonia
- Characters: Jasper
- Magic Elements:
- Mixolydian water resonance
- Phrygian catalytic pivots
- Hydra-branch water grid
- Unrecorded tunnels
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### Beat Map:
- Moon Baths suffer a structural rupture. Water pressure destabilizes foundation.
- Old tunnels exposed—predate harmonics grid. No maps exist.
- Engineers can’t stabilize flow. Grid shows incomplete data.
- Jasper is sent to observe—begrudgingly. He knows the tunnels from childhood.
- Flashback: Jasper and Nimrod used these tunnels as kids. Called main node “The Echo Chamber.”
- Jasper enters tunnels. Recognizes old rune from childhood patch job.
- Slips into waste. Embarrassed. Emotional regression (Cancer/crab symbolism).
- Sees resonance junction. Realizes the flow will poison the sprawl if routed by standard protocol.
- Makes decision: patch Mixolydian rune, then cross-pivot with Phrygian.
- This partially cleanses the sewage before rerouting.
- No one is told. The sprawl is spared.
- Unseen consequence: stress accumulates on lead pipes. Delayed failure is inevitable.
### Thematic Notes:
- Regression into childhood space = Cancer archetype (the Crab).
- Emotional overload. Old shame returns.
- Jasper makes ethical decision alone.
- Heroism hidden. Danger delayed.
## III : Death
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> [!info] Separation
> Extracting truth from debris | Sifting real from false; clarity emerging
> - Zodiac: Scorpio (♏︎)
> - Planet: Pluto (♇), traditional Mars (♂︎)
> - Element: Air or transitional fluidity 🜁 / 🜍
> - Metal: Quicksilver (Mercury)
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### Beat Map
- Jasper has lost access to the Vellum Mentis.
- He turns to his father's old scrollbook—an object he initially dismisses as mundane.
- Upon reading, he experiences strange harmonic phenomena:
- Diagrams ripple.
- Phrases shimmer when spoken.
- Rituals resonate physically.
- Unknown to him, the scrollbook is filled with Nullarii spellwork.
- The Switch Twins feel guilty about Jasper’s situation.
- They recognize him from both The Bac and childhood.
- They secretly offer to train him.
- In exchange, they ask to learn chromatic spellwork from Jasper.
- Training sessions occur in hidden, forgotten places—ruined arches, old basilicas.
- During a projection into the Mare Internum, Jasper sees the Twins’ true forms:
- No longer Roman men.
- They appear as their true selves—fluid, elemental, powerful women.
- One rides a ship of resonance, the other commands tides.
- They never discuss this transformation.
- Jasper never questions it.
- The three train together in the Mare:
- They bend harmonic currents.
- Clash modal energies.
- Learn to sail chaos.
- Jasper's spellcasting becomes more precise and strange.
- The scrollbook slowly alters him—but he remains unaware.
### Thematic Notes:
- The Mare reveals inner truth—identity through resonance.
- Chromatic magic unlocks authentic selfhood.
- Nullarii knowledge, once forbidden, becomes Jasper’s foundation.
- Trust forms through shared secrecy, not confession.
- This is not a return—it’s a rebirth.