Jo follows hidden Atlantean plotters
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Jo observes Krasis and Hippias leaving through another door and decides to follow them, instructing Lakis to warn the Doctor and the King.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Determined pragmatist balancing urgency with calculated risk
Jo intercepts Hippias and Krasis’ exit, quickly reassigning Lakis to rally the Doctor and King Dalios while she slips after the plotters into the restricted undercroft, embodying decisive action under pressure and the transition from visible diplomacy to covert pursuit.
- • recover the crystal of Kronos before Hippias and Krasis reach it
- • protect King Dalios and the Doctor by alerting key allies through Lakis
- • direct intervention is required when institutional gatekeepers obstruct justice
- • covert action is justified to avert temporal catastrophe
Urgency blended with secrecy
Hippias and Krasis emerge from a side passage into the plaza and slip unobtrusively toward the temple’s undercroft, visibly engaged in secret maneuvering that triggers Jo’s instinct to track their covert agenda.
- • retrieve the crystal of Kronos unobserved
- • advance the Master’s temporal scheme ahead of rival factions
- • divine mandate legitimizes stealth operations
- • expediency outweighs public scrutiny
Concerned and conflicted but obedient to crisis orders
Lakis steers Jo away from Crito’s obstruction and later receives orders to split forces—rushing to alert the Doctor and King while Jo tails the escaping plotters, torn between duty to her Queen and growing alarm at unfolding treachery.
- • secure an audience for Jo with the Doctor and King
- • fulfill Jo’s split-mission directive despite personal risk
- • the Queen’s standing is fragile and must be preserved
- • secrets are dangerous but sometimes necessary
Hostile and dismissive, cloaked in procedural authority
Crito blocks Jo’s path to the King, enforcing the palace’s isolationist posture against outsiders and reinforcing the barrier between public politics and the Doctor’s crisis.
- • maintain King Dalios’ isolation from disruptive influences
- • demonstrate power by denying Jo access
- • outsiders cannot be trusted with sovereign matters
- • diplomacy through force preserves order
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The grand plaza becomes the nexus of public denial and covert conspiracy as it channels the Master’s temporal incursion while simultaneously hosting the Doctor’s allies and enemies. The dais’s public symbolism contrasts with the side exits into shadowed undercroft corridors, where Hippias and Krasis disappear with the crystal.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Jo's urgent instruction to Lakis to take her to the King (Beat 194...) is interrupted when she is blocked by Crito (Beat dfbc...), but she observes Hippias leaving with Krasis and decides to follow them (Beat c98...), pivoting her plan to intercept Hippias."
Jo demands audience with the King"Jo's decision to follow Hippias and Krasis into the temple undercroft (Beat c98...) leads directly to her attempt to warn Hippias not to enter (Beat ee8...), and ultimately to her being ambushed by Krasis and pushed inside with the Minotaur (Beat d98...), creating a high-stakes cliffhanger."
Krasis traps Jo and Hippias in undercroft