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.”

The team at the St. Francis reunites to debrief and discuss their next moves as the ontological situation rapidly deteriorates.

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.

Episode One in The Legend of Jimmy Trocano.

Mitch finds a coin from a time and place that has never existed.

“Not only do [the Illuminated] know more than the common run of man, they know how to use that knowledge. They possess the muscle and the lever.”

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

Roger enlists Viv’s aid to implement URIEL’s game-meme — Atlantis Arisen! — at Westercon ‘73.

Archie explains a bit about esmology to Andy, and the two invent a new type of game. Or meme. Or game-meme.

"That's a large and effective parcel," Mitch says in Danbe. It sounds better in Danbe.

The office team at Livermore have an unsettling conversation with one of Roger’s less savory “personalities.”