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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:08:33 -0500
Dear Paula,
I'm having a busy week (programming in FORTRAN is such a joy), so I'll
strive to be short but sweet.
I didn't get a lot done this session, and I also wasn't paying
much attention to the other player's adventures, but here's a rough
outline.
Caine and Dairmaid had no idea what was going on, but since nobody was
shelling anybody, Dairmaid took off for Rebma, hoping to scratch
"Attempt to patch things up with Nerene" off his long-term to-do list.
(The other items aren't possible to attend to with a war going on in Amber.)
He couldn't find Nerene -- she was avoiding him, so he spoke to the
Queen instead. She said she'd made a deal with Oberon -- she would remain
in Rebma under Benedict's jurisdiction. It was clear that Oberon hadn't
readjusted her brain. She was just making the best of a bad situation.
Oberon also told her that Tindall and Gelb had been given as hostages
to a house of Chaos, and that the Amber family would also be adopting
some Chaos lords. She was talking to Oberon about having the princes
returned. Dairmaid snapped that for some time there'd been a lot of
talk going on, and little returning. He asked for permission to go to
Chaos and see if indeed they were safe and being treated well, and she
said he could do so if he wished.
Dairmaid had been having a hard time above the surface, and he was feeling
his oats about being a prince, and started complaining bitterly about how the
Family was a bunch of idiots and you can't trust any of them, especially
Oberon. Well, the Queen wasn't exactly having a cherry of a day, either, and
she reminded him that this was her family and his as well, and tersely
dismissed him.
Dairmaid and his mom talked about this and that. She convinced him to
wait for Nerene to come to him, instead of chasing her down, forcing a
confrontation before she was ready, and then disappearing off to Chaos.
Smart lady, that Mom. Still no word from Pop and the Legion of Sands.
In the vein of tender child-parent relations, Lazarus took his father, Brand,
out of Corwin's camp. He intended to take Brand to the Font, to Jasra, who
is Lazarus' step-mother, but the Font of Power was once again under siege
so he settled for a hospital in Shadow instead, and spend much of the gaming
session filling out paper work. (NO, he doesn't have Blue Cross -- I mean,
I think I'll go get a drink of water . . . )
Dori was recruited by the then-ephemeral Oberon, who then took control of
Eric, adjusted his attitude, and returned to his body. (He may have retreated
into the Jewel during the fight -- I wasn't paying very close attention, but
that would explain how he dominated Eric, and how his body was reanimated
when Eric placed the Jewel around his neck.) Luckily, Llewella and Morgan
escaped unscathed, though the going theory is that Morgan's demon, Kamow, was
forcibly shapeshifted into a house plant. (This lead to many unkind jokes:
for years afterward, Kamow would continue to face the sun whenever possible,
would decide photosynthesis was much more efficient than eating and turn
green, etc.)
Will's character, a half-demon, half-shadowling who's a member of a demon
house called Priat, went and ordered a hybrid fire-angel for a third party
he's been doing some work for lately, and worked on antagonizing his younger
brother, which seems to be his major hobby.
Will reminded me about something relevant to Nagataka's assassination : he
was wearing the Jewel at the time, and the Jewel contains a record of its
bearer's experiences. But I was in disguise at the time, so unless it
can record psychic impressions of people at a distance, I'm still okay.
*fingers crossed*
NO, don't tell me if the real Benedict is a shapeshifter. It'd be naughty
to get out-of-game knowledge. I already know Too Much because Jason and
I used to talk about the old campaign.
Wasn't Paul's character Urand? Or was that a different campaign? Well,
he may have needed a lesson, but Dairmaid certainly knew that Benedict
could kick his ass. Kind of goes without saying. When Benedict ordered him
to attack, he did so without hesitation, knowing he didn't have a prayer of
scoring a hit. What really creeped me out was that when Dairmaid told
Benedict his real name, Benedict walked over to a cabinet, pulled out a thick
file, and asked for his mother's maiden name. "Amberite Intelligence" is
NOT an oxymoron, at least where Benedict's concerned.
You asked about Dworkin : at the beginning of the game he was the old
familiar eccentric hunchback. As time went on and the damage to the Pattern
became more apparent, he got nuttier and nuttier until he rounded up all
the Redheads for a Unicorn hunt -- something about killing him, and using
the Horn to redraw the Pattern. Before they caught the Unicorn, Nagataka
rewrote the Pattern. Lazarus was ostensibly helping with the hunt, and
in reality keeping Dworkin distracted. Getting him distracted isn't the
problem . . . it's KEEPING him distracted. Anyway, as the Pattern was
redrawn, Dworkin faded away and disappeared. The Unicorn said that he
was not alive in the form we were used to, or something like that. Also,
Morgan found a laboratory in the Castle that he's pretty sure is Dworkin's,
except that the counters are high enough to be comfortable for someone
six foot tall or more, and there are lots of ashtrays around with cigar
butts in them.
Britt
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