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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:37:17 -0500
Dear Paula,
Remind me to call you any time I'm not feeling paranoid enough. Sheesh!
I'm pretty sure nobody else knows who killed Nagataka because Dairmaid was
VERY careful, and all the evidence was briskly removed by the castle
staff -- they wanted to to cover up Nagataka's death, not catch the guy
who did it. So I can state with some confidence that Dairmaid doesn't need
to fear blackmail, barring weird things like Fiona happening to be trump-spying
on Nagataka at the time. If you seriously worry about THOSE sorts of things
you end up like Brand, with a Personality Hotel for a brain -- dementia comes
in, but it doesn't get out.
Morgan is a player character, who already creeps Dairmaid out because he's
shown Dairmaid that he has ties to Chaos, but doesn't bother Britt as much
because I know that he's just as clueless as the rest of us. ;)
I certainly hope Oberon's really Oberon, because it would really annoy
me if the universe contained TWO such people. The players know that Nagataka
did release Oberon from some kind of suspended animation at the beginning
of the game.
In any event, I propose two rules for the Amber universe:
1. Any power, sufficiently advanced, can imitate any other power.
2. Any Elder, impersonated well enough, is just as good (or bad)
as the original.
The latter I call the "Reasonable Facsimile" rule. Is that Oberon or a
Reasonable Facsimile thereof? Is there a functional difference between the
two?
Caine often underestimates people (especially women). Whether he's actually
that dumb or whether it's a big act. He also insists that he figures Corwin
attacked him because they're brothers and they hate each other. Well, they
hated each other last week, but neither of them ran the other through with
a Patternsword. What made Corwin attack then? Caine claimed he didn't care.
Maybe he does care -- already knows, in fact, and he just doesn't want to
share. I don't know. I've tried to play Dairmaid as a trustworthy and loyal
person so Caine would feel comfortable discussing such things, but then again
it's not so easy to win the trust of an Amberite.
Match-making? MATCH-MAKING??? This is CAINE, not Flora. Caine's idea of
match-making is loaning Dairmaid money for a prostitute. He's too old
to believe in love. He assures Dairmaid that in a few hundred years,
Dairmaid won't care, either. It's actually pretty depressing to hang around
with him.
I'd love to know where the real Benedict is, too! And at what point the
substitution occurred. Benedict wanted to gauge Dairmaid's abilities
once, and ordered him to attack. Even though he was operating with only
one hand (those pesky Hellmaids!) Dairmaid found himself disarmed and flat
on his back in less than an eye-blink. Benedict had his foot on his chest.
Dairmaid shapeshifted a spike through the bottom of Benedict's boot, and
he didn't bleed. So maybe Benedict's warfare is SO HIGH that he could get
his foot out of the way INSIDE his boot . . . or maybe he has control over
the flow of blood through his body through discipline and ki . . . or
maybe he is/was a shapeshifter. But is the REAL Benedict a shapeshifter?
Anyway, I'm curious whether that was Benedict who flung me around or
Oberon.
Britt
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