"Powers who are artists are not part of the estate of Artists," she intoned, clearly having gotten her hands on first-edition Nobilis at some point.

"Don't you see why I have to kill you?" she asked then. (She was the Power of Irony.) "We Powers are ourselves not part of the elements of Creation. And who comes from outside Creation? The Excrucians, of course. We already know about so-called Mimics. But it turns out...[she almost said "ironically"] we are just deeper-cover mimics. We think we're upholding reality when we're actually programmed to destroy it. Only I was in a position to figure this out.

"Evelyn," she said to the Power of Evolution, "you know that one of your own capabilities is to destroy the things of your estate. Why do you think that is? We're the enemy!"

"I have to be last."

This was our second single-session story. (That's two in a row!) Timothy Hague's personal project is to end pedestrianism. As the Power of Vehicular Accidents, this strikes him as a perfectly reasonable thing to do. His most determined opponent in this matter is Emily, the Marchessa of Stairs. The Power of Irony, hopelessly insane but also enterprising, hoped to use the antagonism to trap as many deep-cover Excrucian mimics (aka Nobilis) as possible and destroy them for their own good. There were two PCs attending on this real-life holiday eve, so two non-allied hostile powers was plenty of opposition. Evelyn and Timothy played tag for much of the evening with anchors of Stairs and Irony before being lured back to Irony's demesne in the chancel of Familia Janus.

For this adventure I had fun creating Gifts for NPC Powers. The Power of Irony, Dorothy Polara, got a Gift called "I'm Rubber and You're Glue," essentially an automatically-activated lesser creation of Irony on hostile attacks. It works like it sounds. The Power of Stairs got a somewhat flashier gift that hasn't been revealed yet.

Instead of luring Timothy Hague back to her chancel along with Evelyn, Irony got his anchor Crystal Hague instead. Crystal ended up sneaking out the back way, where she encountered Irony's brother, the Power of Ambivalence.

"Do you want to leave?"

"Eh."

"Cause you can stay, or go. With the right attitude."

"Whatever."

Evelyn eventually managed to alert Irony's fraternal twin, Paradox, who was Not Amused by his sister's...misprisions.

Assuming, of course, that they were misprisions.