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Gertie
Gertie, known as The Collector, is one of the Power Nine and a divine force of acquisition, preservation, and possession. To her, collection is not simple hoarding; it is rescue from decay, theft from oblivion, and ownership made eternal. Objects, memories, souls, contracts, and entire histories may vanish into the Vault Beyond Counting, where nothing is ever truly lost and nothing is freely returned. Worshiped quietly by archivists, relic hunters, and those afraid of being forgotten, Gertie stands between preservation and captivity. She does not destroy what she wants. She keeps it forever.
Gertie is The Collector, a Neutral Evil Power Nine deity associated with acquisition, preservation, possession, and the Vault Beyond Counting. The prior Djeebus event notes in this cell were cross-row contamination and belonged to Djeebus, not Gertie. Post-session Power Nine holiday brainstorming tentatively linked Gertie possibly to Easter, but that remains meta-planning unless later confirmed in play.
2026-01-23
Haunted hag wedding house
Illusion architect / forge concealer
Has a final major illusion hiding the route to her secret forge, broken when the party defeats the hags, wedding guests, and house-threat.
Status: Gertie's last major forge illusion falls
Knowledge: Players know the route to her forge is no longer hidden behind the wedding-house scenario.
Forge holder / hag antagonist
Owns or controls the forge route the party is trying to enter while rescuing K’Zhara and the fire djinni embersmiths.
Status: Gertie's forge remains the next major rescue objective
Knowledge: Players know the hags are between the party and Dallas's mother.
Hag beneficiary / unseen planner
Is indirectly implicated by Calithea’s warning that the party has made the hags happy.
Status: Gertie’s larger plan benefits from the commune/Xalaethra disaster
Knowledge: Players know the party’s actions may have advanced hag goals.
Hag-plot architect / staff thief planner
Has her larger agenda deepened through the Fate Hag attack and Nora-staff plan.
Status: Gertie becomes the long-term hag antagonist behind Pink Pony escalation
Knowledge: Players know the hags’ actions at the masquerade are part of a broader plan.
Hag-deal holder / firstborn claimant
Is named in Aria's diary as holding the firstborn claim her father made on her behalf before she could choose.
Status: Gertie thread intersects Vayne chapel
Knowledge: Players know Gertie's bargains continue to echo through Gravenhurst.
Maze-linked chaos figure / prior trial force
Remains part of the chaos-maze context as the party completes the final stages.
Status: Gertie-linked maze material closes into the larger Kaos crisis
Knowledge: Players know her trials were part of the chaos sequence.
Mirror taunter / failed-test judge
Appears in the red mirror, mocks Morgan, and throws him a Staff of Necromancy with zero charges because he failed her test.
Status: Gertie judges Morgan and withholds real reward
Knowledge: Players know Gertie directly manipulates Morgan and the maze.
Illusion architect / ambush source
Weaponizes familiar guilt, Solar’s threat, and Morgan’s flesh-obsession to create the banquet ambush.
Status: Banquet room confirmed as Gertie test/trap
Knowledge: Players know Gertie’s maze uses personal fears and desires.
Maze architect / illusion force
Her chaos mirror maze continues to test the party through personal visions and false exits.
Status: Gertie’s realm remains active environment and antagonist force
Knowledge: Players know the maze is personally targeted and deceptive.
Divine/cosmic force
Appears among the Power Nine chapter titles/divine forces revealed by Maine’s translation.
Status: Gertie becomes part of active cosmology knowledge
Knowledge: Players know Gertie belongs in the Power Nine framework.
Act 2, Episode 5, Scene 11
2025-03-02 / Furnished sewer room chest
Dhaz opens the chest and finds fine clothes, a small bottle, an iron key, and a Draconic book titled The Alignment of Jericha: The Power Nine.
Act 4, Episode 1, Scene 11
2025-08-01 / Mirror room / blue portal
Inside Gertie's chaos mirror maze, Maine sees Enemy crush a Lawful-aligned MAI subject before the mirror breaks to reveal a blue portal.
Act 4, Episode 1, Scene 12
2025-08-01 / Distorted banquet room
The blue portal leads to a distorted banquet where Jeff and Solar are hags in disguise, Morgan is trapped in a cannibal dinner trance, and Darius joins the scene.
Act 4, Episode 1, Scene 16
2025-08-01 / Banquet room / red mirror
Morgan breaks free of the cannibal trance, only for Gertie to mock him through the red mirror and give him a dead Staff of Necromancy.
Session Log / Adapted Recap / Act 4
2025-09-01 / Kaos-controlled chaos maze
The party completes the final stages of Kaos's chaos maze, breaking its immediate supernatural hold over Point Pringle.
Act 5, Episode 3, Scene 43
2026-02-12 / Post-session table talk
After the session, the group discussed Power Nine holidays and lore retcons: Vithyrex tied to Valentine’s Day, Sister Treants to Arbor Day, Krampus to Christmas, Trixie to Halloween, Ewig to Juneteenth, Aboleth to Memorial Day, Djeebus to Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras, Gertie possibly to Easter, and Emrys still undecided.
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Dhaz opens the chest and finds fine clothes, a small bottle, an iron key, and a Draconic book titled The Alignment of Jericha: The Power Nine.
storyInside Gertie's chaos mirror maze, Maine sees Enemy crush a Lawful-aligned MAI subject before the mirror breaks to reveal a blue portal.
storyThe blue portal leads to a distorted banquet where Jeff and Solar are hags in disguise, Morgan is trapped in a cannibal dinner trance, and Darius joins the scene.
storyMorgan breaks free of the cannibal trance, only for Gertie to mock him through the red mirror and give him a dead Staff of Necromancy.
storyThe party completes the final stages of Kaos's chaos maze, breaking its immediate supernatural hold over Point Pringle.
storyAfter the session, the group discussed Power Nine holidays and lore retcons: Vithyrex tied to Valentine’s Day, Sister Treants to Arbor Day, Krampus to Christmas, Trixie to Halloween, Ewig to Juneteenth, Aboleth to Memorial Day, Djeebus to Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras, Gertie possibly to Easter, and Emrys still undecided.
storyThe chapel loot and diaries connect the dead necromancer to Mortellus Vayne, Aria Vayne, Gertie, the Duskborn scroll, and Havyk.
storyThe masquerade at Queef Manor turns catastrophic: Nick becomes a vampire, Rice Hands dies, and the Von Queef/VQU political threads deepen.
storyTarria joins the Pink Pony Girls as a commune tea ceremony turns into mass blinding, Havyk gains the Mantle of the Medusa, and Calithea warns that the hags are pleased.
storyAuric leads the party through a portal into a time-shifted version of Gertie's Forge, where they learn about K'Zhara's hidden tunnel.
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