Almost heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Archie has a meeting with the Voice of Control • A deal is tentatively reached • Charley stops the Indians from singing using mad science • And delves into the inner astral • Roger communes with the dead • Morris gets shot • He’ll live • Roger and Charley close the subduction zone at Point One • The A Team finds a strange Sumerian hut deep in the West Virginian hills

Charley sleeps and dreams and journeys through the Astral Plane.

Jocasta, Roger, and Charley descend into the bowels of Mount Shasta. Things get weird. Weirder than you’d expect.

Roger gets an invitation to parley with Monsieur le Comte on the roof of the San Jose Airport Hilton.

Viv hits the stacks to learn about the Opposition and wraps up her first day in the office by chatting about Irruptors with URIEL’s resident Irruptor expert, Mitch Hort.

So long, Marianne.

Charley partially restores power to the St. Francis then takes a moment to perform post-mortem electroencephalogy on the carcass of a girtablullû.

Mitch, Jocasta, and Agent 00 stumble upon a disturbing little soiree on the upper floors of the St. Francis, hosted by a kusarikku named Roscoe.

“Stay in teams of two. If someone attempts to leave the building, detain them and bring them to me and Merrick. If they resist, terminate immediately.”

A shot right between the eyes. “Well, so much for the hangers-on.”

URIEL learns the extent of Carl and Richie’s plan • Archie delivers his latest memetic masterpiece to the St. Francis • Mitch asks Jocasta her thoughts on fascism and human nature • Later he crashes the Special Ones’ suite and throws a tape player out the window • Viv and Roger get the ball rolling on the Atlantis A-Risen LARP • Marshall welcomes a kill-team from Granite Peak and lays siege to LeConte Hall • Jocasta gets ready to hunt bear • Roger catches a psychedelic barb in the face • Archie and Charley cross the threshold, together

Jocasta, Roger, and Mitch deal with the fallout of their tussle with the girtablullû coin-keeper while three bašmu men in black make a break for it in a hijacked car.

Jocasta and Mitch encounter one of the Red Kings’ servants cleaning a coin in the St. Francis Hotel basement.

Westercon ‘73 gets a little strange • The St. Francis slips deeper into ontological instability • Viv meets the field team • Jocasta arrives at the scene, loaded for bear • Roger runs damage control • The office team debates how to counteract Carl and Richie’s plan • Marshall worries about the PR fallout with Granite Peak • Archie starts formulating the idea of a meme-laden live-action “role playing game” • Mitch and Jocasta go bull hunting