ROUGH DRAFT Run Log for 970527

Present: 

Dave R	- Malachai
Barb	- Cathryn
Kevin	- Zack
Laori	- Celeste
Tia	- Cassandra, Damia
Dave K	- Ilk, logging

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Zack ditches Ilkandacian, and is pulled through a trump contact by
Malachai to help with Corwin.  Malachai tells Zack about the Corwin
situation, and that there are apparently two ways to fix him. A Pattern
walk on Corwin's Pattern while carrying him, but Merlin is missing,
Cassandra is missing her memory, and Malachai is uncertain of his
parentage, and the Titania solution. Zack is willing to try to contact
Titania, but also wants to track down his father.

Zack trumps Turvallen. Turvallen says that he is holding the end of the
chain that he was following, and that he has located what seem to be
Julian bits, but cannot recover or consolidate them. 

Malachai asks Zack if he knows about Faerie, and if she might be
willing to assist in finding Corwin's soul. 

Malachai trumps Darkstar. 

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Cassandra is in Darkover, contemplating repairs to her mind. Darkstar
has told her that there are two parts of the task, physical and mental,
and that repairing one without the other could result in permanent loss
of memory, as could delaying the repairs. Cassandra declines repairs,
out of fear of compromise of Corwin's secrets. Celeste tries to talk her
out of it.

Darkstar, Celeste, and Cassandra continue to talk about the
possibilities of restoring Casandra's memories. Cassandra still wants
more guarantees out of Darkstar than he can give regarding the sanctity
of any memories he finds in her head. When he explains that any of a
number of powerful beings could rip the knowledge from either of their
heads, she is somewhat conciliated. 


Cassandra tries to trump Malachai.

Celeste notices a disturbance in the aviary. There's a little black cat
riding on the back of several of the birds. It grins at her and fades
out. Celeste goes to Cassandra for an explanation. 

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Malachai reaches Darkstar.

Darkstar turns to Celeste and asks her if he might bring some more
visitors up - Malachai and Zack. Celeste sends "cousin" Faythe off to
sort herbs. 

Malachai and Zack go through, and discuss Cassandra's situation. 

Clarissa enters the room. They chat. She is amused at the concept of
undead vapid zombies. 

Clarissa asks Zack for a favor, and tosses a stone at him. Zack dodges,
and the stone reorients on his new position. He asks her if it is the
stone that she got from Ingold, and she agrees, clarifying that she got
it from Cathryn. 

Zack catches the stone in a teacup. As he feels it enter his aura, he
feels extremely enhanced, as if he is drinking from Auricle.  Clarissa
claims that she is experimenting in how the rock interacts with various
powers.  She asks for the rock back, and Zack reluctantly returns it.

Zack asks Clarissa about the demons attached to the rock, and she tells
him that they're in the overworld. People expect to meet demons there,
but they're usually from their imagination.

Peekaboo wanders in, and wanders around, including wandering through
Clarissa, which annoys her. 

They discuss repairing Cassandra again. She agrees to the repairs. 

Zack wanders off to get some food and then prepare for the journey. 

Celeste summons Faythe to fix Cassandra.


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The group of Free Amazons take Cathryn and Jesby to a nice womens'
dormitory. Cathryn is not impressed. She boozes to escape, and her
mother and the amazons trade war stories. Time passes.

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Ilk, having been abandoned by Zack, sends a tendril off lookng for Zack,
another towards Home, and looks around locally for the AD&D run. 

Blaze is up on the roof making friends with the giant cat.  Natasha is
down in the kitchens trading cooking secrets with Amber's staff. The pig
is wandering around looking for Zack.  Theresa is herding a small,
misshapen dwarf towards Damia. Theresa's telling him stories about some
interesting byplay in some lands near the Spiral. Dworkin was apparently
there for it. Damia follows them in and shuts the door behind them.

When Ilk sends a tendril out looking for Damia, he gets a headache from
a massive wash of Pattern-energy near her. Ilk wanders downstairs to
chat with Damia and the Pattern-source. Damia greets him at the door and
declines to send him away. 

Ilk sees someone who looks vaguely like Suhuy shouting away with
Theresa. It's not a direct resemblance, but more of a family
resemblance.

Dworkin opens a face on the side of him that is facing Ilk, and asks him
if he is the one that has been mucking up his castle with that nasty
Logrus stuff. Ilk says that he's been fairly restrained as of late, and
blames the mess on Norton. Dworkin says, "Good, good, i won't have to
kill you out of hand, then." The face goes away. At no point did the
original face stop chatting with Theresa. 

Damia and Dworkin chat about Ferro and assigning rooms. Dworkin is
fairly harsh towards Oberon. "Maybe I should have refrigerated him more
as a child." Dworkin insists that "his son", Ferro, is in charge. 

Ilk, realizing that a vital bit of information is missing here, leads
the group in introductions. Damia's side of the conversation becomes a
bit more sane.

The conversation is long and highly entertaining, but goes
nowhere. Dworkin threatens to leave and take his castle and Pattern
with him. 

Ilk tries to get aid from Dworkin regarding his cousin's current
situation. Dworkin reaches out, grabs one of the doors in the Courts to
which a Vlad bit is Pattern-stapled, examines the door, removes the
staple, hands Ilk the fingernail and bit of finger that was just
rescued, and starts munching on the door. Ilk has a bite as well, just
to be polite.  Dworkin wanders off, muttering about finding a staple
remover. 

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Cathryn is sitting in the chapter house, when a female Dworkin-looking
creature wanders in. She says that she needs three of Cathryn's hairs
in order to make a staple remover. 
They chat.

Cathryn - "Do you know Dworkin?"
Dworkin - "I should hope so... I'm Dworkin."

He pulls his face off, turns it around, and puts it back on. This side
of the face looks like Dworkin.  He pulls it back off, turns it around,
and looks at it, then puts it back on.

Dworkin asks her for three of her hairs for a staple remover. Cathryn
waffles, and demands to know an explanation. 

Dworkin puts a hand on Cathryn, and reaches. 

Ilk gets a trump contact, assumes that it's Stormy, and accepts. It's
Dworkin. He asks if he can keep the staple remover. Cathryn chimes
in. The three chat.  Cathryn wants to know why he needs her hairs -
"they don't have Pattern in them." "Neither does he." "He's not blood of
my blood."  Cathryn wants her hairs back; Dworkin wants to keep the
staple remover, and Ilk offers Cathryn a favor if she agrees to give
Dworkin the hairs. Dworkin says that he'll return it maybe if he
remembers when he's done. Cathryn finally agrees; Dworkin takes three
specific hairs, and breaks the contact.

Dworkin hands Cathryn a Jewel of Judgement, and tells her that it is so
she can contact him. He leaves, then wanders back in, looks at Jesby,
and asks, "do I know you?... ah, right - you're my grandaughter. Or is
that g-grandaughter? Or are you my brother's?"  He concludes that she
must be Suhuy's grandaughter, and offers her a date. He hands her the
date, and wanders off.

Cathryn and Jesby chat about Dworkin. 

Cathryn starts reaching around, and finds a number of blue crystals hung
around the necks of people around here. She takes one and examines it.
It appears to be a powerful magical focus.

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Faythe Healer


Zack is in the kitchen making some food for the upcoming trip to
Faerie. Malachai is holding Cassandra's hand. Lazy has moved to put
himself in Cassandra's line of sight so she doesn't have to move her
eyes to see him. 

Faythe does a normalizing scan. 

Darkstar settles himself over Cassandra in the form of a blanket. She
can still see, and a warm humming begins in her bones. Malachai is no
longer touching her. Cassandra has a moment of no time; about a half of
an hour by Celeste's reckoning. Celeste feeds Faythe power. 

Cassandra wakes up. She has dual memories. Now is either falling through
the air towards the pikes or lying on a table. She looks around. Her
senses definitely add information to one of the two now's. There is
still a blanket over her, and she doesn't feel like she is
falling. Faythe has fallen over in an exhausted puddle. Celeste picks up
the puddle, wraps it in a blanket, and sets it on a couch. Faythe sneaks
a kiss on her hand. Celeste hugs the bundle.

Darkstar is snoring. Malachai wakes him up, and asks when he is going to
do his part of the fix. Darkstar replies that she's all fixed, and rolls
up like a shade. Celeste puts the blanket on another sofa. 

Celeste and Malachai help Cassandra to a chair.  She has all of her
memories, but still needs to integrate them, and seems to be
overcompensating for every move. 

A servant pokes her head into the kitchen and tells Zack that they're
all done. Zack wanders in with food and greets them. Malachai feeds
her. 

Clarissa wanders in and expresses her disappointment at not having been
present to poke through Cassandra's brain.  She mentions that she has
been able to pretty much confirm that it really is Pattern inside that
rock.  She's not quite sure how to get rid of the chains, though. 

Zack asks Clarissa how skilled she is at removing Pattern staples. He
tells her that a member of Cara, his adopted house in Chaos, is having
some problems with some Pattern-staples causing problems in places where
they shouldn't be. "Cara? The house allied with the Queen?" "Only a few
rogue members."

Peekaboo amusement happens. 

Celeste and Malachai chat. 

Celeste and Malachai mumble, stammer, and try to tell Cassandra
something. Faythe noticed something during the scan...

"Your internal maturity level has not caught up with your external
maturity level." - Celeste

They chat about fixing Corwin; the general impression is that Cassandra
is too young internally to walk the Pattern.

Zack and Cassandra chat; Zack explains about the state of the Julian
hunt, and says that after what this Julian that may not have been his
father has done, he was definitely willing for forestall his quest to
help Corwin, who has always been one of his favorite uncles. 

Malachai picks up the Darkstar-bedroll. 

Cassandra asks if there is an open place for her to practice her sword
forms, and Clarissa mentions that there is a nice big spot outside, as
long as she doesn't mind some demons. Cassandra pulls Greyswandir and
heads outside. 

Clarissa - "They're not my demons. They're Cathryn's."

Cassandra returns.

They prepare to leave Darkover. Celeste indicates that she will stay.
Clarissa suggests that perhaps Celeste could go with them and give her
opposite a minor gift... and holds out an apple, red on one side,
golden on the other, and smelling faintly of almonds. All present
decline to present Clarissa's gift to the Queen of Faerie. 


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Cathryn and Jesby are chatting when Clarissa arrives. She chats with
them for a bit and says that Bleys wasn't responding to any of her
calls, but that they could stop by and visit his lab. Cathryn agrees,
and blue nimbus coalesces around her, wrenches her across reality,
deposits her in a well-stocked magical and scientific lab.

Cathryn and Clarissa chat some more, and conclude that they should go
find Oberon.  They start by going to castle Amber. Clarissa tinkers with
some lab equipment, and they *bamf* out.

Ilk feels an influx of Logrus energy into the Castle. It has Jesby's
signature all over it. Ilk tosses a bug out there, and it gets kicked
back with a note, "Don't spy on your elders, dear". He tosses back a
"Hmmph".

Clarissa - "Did you know Ilkandacian is here, dear?"
Cathryn  - "Ilkandacian?"
Clarissa - "He tried to spy on me."
Cathryn  - "Spy on me, I think."
Clarissa - "Why would he do that?"
Cathryn  - "Suhuy asked him to."
Clarissa - "The children these days, no manners..."

Damia gets a trump call from Cyndia, saying that there are some
visitors.

Ilk tells Damia that Cathryn is here, along with her mother. Random
imbibes something in anticipation of Jesby's arrival. 

A guard approaches Clarissa and gives her an invitation to audience with
Queen Paulette. She tels the guard that Queen Clarissa would be glad to
accept the invitation. 

Damia and Clarissa have a cat fight. Cathryn occasionally joins in. 

(Ilk conjures a note for Clarissa containing the coordinates of the
vapids; she bursts out in laughter)

Cathryn tries to trump Oberon, keeping the trump internal.  Nothing -
out of range. 

Cathryn discreetly asks Random what this is, and shows him the
Jewel. "It's the Jewel of Judgement." "What can it do?" "Everything."
Oberon used the Jewel to make it snow on Random's birthday.  Cathryn is
horrified when Random tells her that Malachai gave Damia the queen-ship
of Amber.

Ilk makes polite conversation with Jesby to give them an excuse not to
listen into the two conversations. She puts up an illusion of the two
of them chatting and asks him if she can use him as a power source so
she can search for Pattern-weenies, in order to find Oberon. He warns her
that Dworkin is about, and so subtlety might be in order. 

Cathryn puts up a ward over her and Random. They chat about torturing
Bleys and recovering her House. She drops the ward in disgust.

Dworkin walks in, and tells Ilk and Jesby to "Stop that!" Jesby
continues.  Clarissa introduces herself to Dworkin as Cathryn's
daughter, and Dworkin starts proclaiming different people in the room to
be Queen of Amber.

Dworkin hands Ilkandacian a staple remover. It looks like a perfectly
normal staple remover, with no hints of power in it. 

Dworkin shifts into Faella and wanders out. 

Clarissa drifts out soon afterwards, "...to visit Dworkin again."

Jesby thanks Ilk for his help, and says that she has found Oberon. She
invites him to come along; he declines. The illusion around Jesby and
Ilk fades out, and Cathryn sees Ilk and Jesby fade in a bit to the side
from where they were apparently chatting before.

Jesby and Cathryn vanish. When they reappear, the're standing in front
of a pissed off Gerard. 

Ilk takes his leave of Damia and teleports Home with his newfound staple
remover. 


--EORun--