Session 1

The first session began with Andrew Saunders and Doctor Frederick Bartlett being invited to a play called Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger and, having been given 2 tickets each, inviting their friends Nathaniel Browne and Captain George Withers.

Before the play, the PCs got to know each other, and revealed their professions.

Doctor Bartlett, a retired psychiatrist, had seen Andrew in a professional capacity after a very strange experience on a train journey which Andrew had undertaken with Nathaniel.

Captain Withers, a career army man, was an old friend of Doctor Bartlett's

Andrew, a museum creator with a special interest in mythology, had come to see his sister, Hannah Keith perform the role of the Queen.

Nathaniel, an author, had been invited by Andrew and was very enthusiastic about seeing this new play by the noted novellist, Talbot Estus.

Act 1

The first scene began with the Queen (Cassilda) of the city of Yhtill reclining by the edge of a lake. During the scene, the quuen's children enter and discuss with her issues of succession. Some impressions are given during this scene:

1. Yhtill is involved in a protracted war with its rival, Alar.

2. Yhtill is a city in stasis. Very little ever happens there.

3. A much greater city, called Carcosa exists, but no one knows where it is.

4. The talks of succession have been going on a long time, the conversation simply a repitition of what has been said many times before.