Alec sees Harry Houdini in the ghost market and follows him.
Everyone sees him disappear
Alec no longer has the headache
Finnegan suggests turning off the device to see if Alec will come back
Alec is shown tablets with hieroglyphs on them, and is unable to communicate
It starts to get dark, and in preparation to hiding, White turns off the machine.
Ravi worries that if he also astral projects, he will disappear.
He enters the spirit realm and the market place is totally full of spirits.
Also unable to talk to them, he is nonetheless following where they direct in the hopes that they are leading him to Alec
The rest of the group packs up the machine and hides in a random alleyway betwee two temples chosen by Kitty. According to some hiding/common sense criteria. They take Ravi's body with them.
Ravi encounters a spirit in a tent with a turban bearing an emerald gem. He speaks to Ravi in english about a possible trade.
Ravi does usual diplomacy.
Turban guy (Sadil) quotes the bible about legion
Turban guy is the leader of the Order of the Emerald Scarab. He says something to the other spirits and turns them against Ravi.
Ravi attacks the chakras of one of the spirits in the hopes of turning him against the Scarab leader
The other spirit grabs Ravi and drags him out of the tent.
Alec works out that Houdini is trying to lead him away somewhere, uses some occult knowledge to corner him
In the real world - the night passes and the group wakes up to the sound of motors coming.
The machine is turned on, an beggar spirit is traded with (Decartes I think therefore I am) for the location of the Prize of Arabia. Finnegan contacts, White translates
Kitty, knowing Alec well, is able to determine where he is likely to be.
The beggar spirit is unable to help, but gets a scholar to help out.
The scholar offers the Prize for Finnegan's dollar bill showing American ideals.
The motor heard in the distance is a large generator
Kitty heads towards it and sees that the fascists have setup a camp with a number of generators and a number of devices. Some of which allow ghosts to walk through and be captured
Kitty is noticed by the scanning crew and is given chase. She tries to hide
Kitty is captured
Kitty interviews Lauranchio about his new world order
He talks about Marconi devices that can use the energies of ghosts to power things.
Apparently the Prize is control of the world ™
The Scarab priest wants to kill Kitty - some tension wit Lauranchio
Alec chats to Harry and Ravi
Harry praises Alec's ability to astral project with his body as well
Harry insults Ravi's dress sense
Ravi tries to get Alec to leave Harry and come back to the real world.
Kitty tries to leave and convinces the guard to help her write her article
Finnegan dresses as a worker and blends in with the fascists
Finnegan discovers Kitty and she passes him her notes on the interviews