Aedan Acts Impetuous

Raj spoke with Giselle in the Infirmary. She was only semi-infirm, so they went to the Library. Giselle probed her pockets and secret hiding places and discovered that many of her cool trumps, including the one with a bearded Merlin, were gone. She researched the Fae-Amber connection. Apparently, in this Universe, the Fae came into contact with Eric and Amber some twelve years ago at a big hopscotch tournament. Yeah, the Fae are into hopscotch in a big way. Currently, Lugh was King in the Fae Realms, having survived some sort of power play among the sons of Finnvarra.

Magni awoke at Benedict’s private shadow estate. He read the note left for him by Aedan and promptly trumped Giselle. She pulled him through to the Library so she could borrow his trump of Merlin. Giselle trumped Corwin’s son and whined a lot. She also learned that Dara wanted to talk to her about doilies and lace curtains. In the meantime, Magni had everything about the whole New Universe Thing explained to him by Raj. This raised some questions, so Raj trumped Gerard. Apparently, Magni has a whole realm out in shadow, replete with a vast army or three. He’s a major Player in this game. Who knew? Gerard also hinted that Eric didn’t trust Magni because he thought he might make a claim for the throne, based on Magni’s Grandfather’s claim and Magni’s extreme popularity with the common folk due to his overriding coolness.

Aedan snuck up on his home shadow. It was now a military outpost and very much unlike the cool, weird, Goth-Celtic place Todd made up. Aedan skulked around the new lighthouse until he received a trump call from Deirdre. It seems Aedan was supposed to be in place with his commandos waiting to spring Corwin from the dungeon. Oops. Silly Aedan had forgotten and Deirdre disparaged him. Yes, even Aedan’s allies (I should say ‘ally’) belittle him in this world. Acting impetuously1, Aedan joined Deirdre and trumped his forces into the Great Hall of Castle Amber with no real plan of action other than to look cool in black leather, which he pulled off fabulously.

Aedan Acts Impetuous, Again

Magni, Raj, and Giselle visited Benedict. Owing to her status in the Courts of Chaos, Benedict suggested using Giselle to subvert their plans and turn the tide of war against those oogy bastards. Giselle equivocated. Magni considered using his forces to help Benedict, but he insisted on speaking with Corwin first. Benedict said that it might be possible, but since Corwin wasn’t able to speak of his own accord, it might not be particularly useful. Corwin had suffered numerous injuries at Eric’s hands and hadn’t healed very well, if at all.

Giselle finally agreed to go to Chaos, but not to kill Merlin. She did promise to not help them build their Uber-Weapon, whatever that was. Benedict gave her a spooky ring that would allow him to locate her and rescue her when that inevitable event came to pass. Giselle used the cell phone to contact Merlin’s assistant, who transported her to Chaos.

Aedan assaulted Castle Amber and fought his way to the Pattern Room. Well, he fought his way to the stairs to the Pattern Room. Then he did another very impetuous thing: he leaped into the center of the stairwell and tried to rapidly fly to the bottom to prevent the big doors at the bottom from being sealed against him. His magic failed him and he plummeted rapidly. Splat. Unconsciousness became Aedan’s friend.2

Magni and Raj developed a plan. Raj went to Osric’s realm and spoke at some length with one of Osric’s commanders, a large woman named Jardine. Osric and Searlas showed up and the four large people had a lovely tea with scones and those little cracker-things that go so well with good cheese. Mmmmm. Osric said Raj should talk with the local crazy woman, so he did. She seemed to know a thing or two about the alternateness of the universe and suggested, more than once, that Raj just kill everybody who was dead in the old universe and therefore didn’t matter. Raj politely declined, but Gabriel thought it was a splendid idea, so he killed everybody instead, including his pet ferret Bobo.

Giselle did secret things in Chaos (this happens in every game).

Aedan Ponders the Difference Between Impetuousness and Utter Stupidity

Magni visited Lugh in the Fey realms. Lugh was suspicious, but warmed up slightly after Magni promised all sorts of things and gave Lugh more gifts than a rich kid gets on Christmas. Lugh returned the vambrace, but kept the toy soldiers, silly string, and enormous collection of beach balls in the log cabin. Back in Osric’s realm, Jardine went to sleep. Raj picked her up and trumped them both through to Magni. He told Magni that Jardine was his girlfriend/main squeeze/wife. They plotted and planned.

Aedan awoke strapped to a board. Wait, it gets worse. He was hauled into the Temple Below the Pattern and mocked by Eric. Corwin was brought in, strapped to a board and drooling. Deirdre showed up and surrendered in return for Corwin and Aedan being unstrapped from their boards. Aedan spent quite a while dragging his bruised, broken, and handsomely-outfitted-in-black-leather body over to Corwin’s unmoving form cursing his curse of impetuous with his impetuously cursed tongue.

Raj trumped Bleys who was seemingly imprisoned somewhere by Brand and Eric. Bleys said that Brand was still chummy with Chaos and just an all-around jerk who sold him and Fiona out to Eric to save his own pasty skin. according to!Bleys, Brand tried some nefarious hex to weaken the Pattern and allow the forces of Chaos quick access to Amber, but he was defeated by Aedan and the mysterious powers of Tir na-Nog’th. For this our hero is an outlaw? When will this end? How long can poor Aedan suffer at the hands of Evil Everyone and Eric the Esurper? Stay tuned to find out….

Chronicler's Note: One of Aedan's traits, as written on his character sheet, was "Impetuous."3 Dan especially liked to razz Todd whenever Aedan did anything that wasn't extremely foolish, reckless, or suicidal. Hence, Todd compiled a list of Aedan's Impetuous Acts. Also, since Todd writes the Chronicle, he used this session's summary as an opportunity to get back at Dan and hopefully, to make him shut up. It didn't work. Nothing shuts Dan up (except when it was Magni's turn to speak -- see Aedan's Journals for several examples).