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Euphemism, With The Fork, In Chaos
As
you may recall, Gregory has been in Arden for some time now. During this
session, he actually did something there. I don’t know what it was, but
it was something. Oh, and General Fulke is still missing. Remember
him—the guy who infected Benedict? Gregory didn’t find him in the Fae
Realms, but he did find Lugh. They reopened negotiations between Amber
and Faedom. Lugh is very broad-shouldered for an elf; in fact, he played
Rugby for the elves in the last interkingdom match which they narrowly
lost to the Goblins and Wargs team.
Raj
checked out the “inappropriate offerings” found in the Grove of the Unicorn:
a big, oogy animal heart that the Church said didn’t burn. He took the
thing back to Amber where Flora said that it didn’t have any sorcerous
elements about it, and that it should be served only with red wine and
asparagus. Raj put it under his hat where nobody will notice.
Giselle,
still frolicking around the Courts of Chaos, had a long dinner with Mandor.
Then she trumped Magni and joined him and Aedan in their suite with Merlin.
The King of Chaos repeated his assertion that “Martin” was a construct,
though it was imbued with the Pattern. The four of them discussed various
ways of investigating before Merlin was called away by important duties.
Magni got the horses while Aedan told Giselle all about his new friend
with eight arms and cool presents.
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GM's
Commentary
in
which you will find some references to the actual events that occurred
in the game -- usually less amusing (or flattering to Todd's character)
than the Chronicler's version...
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Mr. Orange, Green,
and Red, With the Trump Sword, In Tir na Nog’th
Raj
used his new pokey toy and ended up at the Abyss. Since the edge of the
Abyss is a dangerous place to be hanging out (what with Unicorns and Serpents
dancing the forbidden dance, and pieces of the city crumbling into the
Great Wide Open) Raj’s lover Eve showed up to protect him. They spoke
at some length, but didn’t make whoopee again.
Gregory
returned to Amber and gave Martin a preliminary report of his meeting
with Lugh and the state of affairs in Arden. Martin expressed his fear
of infiltrators in the castle. Magni and Aedan arrived late at night and
arranged for a secret, “infiltrators-only” meeting, at Corwin’s Tomb.
Raj and Gregory showed up and learned the secret handshake. All four agreed
to meet with Martin at seven o’clock the next morning and to try and trick
him into letting them detect “acute construct-itis” of his lesser digits.
They went back to the castle to sleep.
Or
so it seemed. With Ameer’s absence, someone had to stay up and do skeevy
things all night. This time it was Aedan. He ended up talking with a very
real-seeming Martin in Tir Na Nog’th. When Aedan tried to heal this Martin’s
funky Pattern-wedge shaped wound, everybody in the Universe felt something.
They all woke up with a sharp pain in their sides that wasn’t gas.
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Colonel Magni, On the Staircase, With
the Revolver
Meanwhile
in Chaos, Giselle made a telephone. Really. Then she went to the Fae realms.
Finnvarra is still almost alive, breathing very shallowly and looking
sickly and starved. Odds against full recovery: 350 to 1.
Magni
awoke and assembled the younger generation in the library. Aedan arrived
and told them what he had done and the subsequent consequences. Magni,
Aedan, Gregory, and Raj all tromped up to the King’s quarters to confront
Martin. He reluctantly agreed to accompany them to the Pattern room, but
changed his mind when he learned that they expected him to walk the Pattern
that very night. Martin claimed he was too weak, hadn’t had enough sleep,
needed to comb his hair, etc. He turned around and left angrily. Magni
did something that resulted in a loud “click” noise and disappeared.1
Raj
convinced Aedan and Gregory to go back to Tir and find the real-seeming
Martin. So Aedan did his trick again and they ended up in the West Tower.
Yes, that’s the tower that exploded. Raj and Aedan got to watch Random’s
and Fiona’s ghosts get shrapnellized by the phantom Jewel of Judgment.
Meanwhile, Gregory found Martin and tried to convince him to return to
the land of living large. Aedan also tried to convince him to let them
heal his Pattern-wound.2 Raj
and Aedan arrived, and they all went to Arden. Giselle took them to her
workshop in the Fey realms. Magni showed up fashionably late, but just
in time to help restore Martin’s weird Pattern-wound to normal with much
communal, freaky power-slinging. In the ensuing maelstrom, Gregory burned
his hand on Aedan’s white-hot, sexy disco body.
Everybody
is Wounded:
1.
Raj: wound healing on thigh (Benedict).
2.
Aedan: cut on left thumb (Bleys).
3.
Magni: bandaged whole left hand (Serpent).
4.
Giselle: bruiselike marks on neck (Merlin).
5.
Gregory: burned fingers (Aedan).
6.
Gabriel: bruised ego (choo-chooooo ker-eeeeeekkkkkkksshhhh!!!)
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1.
It was about 3 a.m. Amber time when the PC's woke Martin. Both this
"construct Martin" and the real Martin could not walk the
Pattern without serious risk of death (so serious that, as a GM, I would
have killed either one outright had they actually attempted it without
heavy intervention on the part of the PC's). When Martin realized what
the PC's were trying to make him do, he tried to back out. From behind
him (and hidden from the other PC's) Magni pulled a gun and tried to
shoot him, but the gun did not work in that place. In fact, no gun powder
at all was working in Amber at that time. All the PC's and Martin were
left with was the suspicious click noise and empty air where Magni was
before he ported away.
2. This was the wound Martin suffered when
he was stabbed by Brand before Patternfall. The parts of the Pattern
damaged then were imprinted in the wound, which never healed. In his
defense, Martin did try to convince the PC's that healing this wound
-- kept open by the will of the Pattern -- might have unexpected consequences.
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