c49: Script Draft 1, Beat 42

Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel

Script Content:
-Zoya and Csaba attend the Katallian service. They discover the portal door is locked and one way (but Ocean Songbird has a key). As early attendees they are drafted into a confession ritual.
-Meanwhile the priests discover an unauthorized conjuring, which leads them to find Cranium tied up.
-A struggle ensues in the church as Zoya and Csaba try to escape while the Katallian authorities try to stop them. Csaba uses the conjuring stone in a haphazard way that kills people. Zoya successfully escapes and declines to help Csaba, who is left behind.
Discussion:
-Why haven’t Zoya and Csaba attended a service like this before? Is it rare? Is it perhaps their actual initiation?
-How does the conjuring stone work? Is there a rule that Zoya understands Csaba does not? Ideally we are seeking a rule that causes Csaba to misfire with it (as opposed to not being able to make it do anything at all). The rule might stem from Katallian limits on conjuring or from the stone being a stock Constellation totem object. Does Zoya understand this rule because of her experience as a world creator, or because she gathered this information since she’s been on Katall, while Csaba failed to do so?
-Zoya’s dialogue as the elephant god assumes the children already grasp they’ve been tricked for their whole lives as opposed to just finding out about that moments before.
-Does Alltaf go through with its threat against Imerologia? What are the consequences to Zoya’s actions and do we even find out about them?
-Are we adequately setting up Zoya’s care for the Applonian children earlier in the script?
-How can we make the beginning and the ending echo each other?