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Neville awakes (in Faerie) and stretches. One of his gloves isn't behaving as expected. He takes the glove off and finds the House ring on his hand. "Well, I was wondering when that would happen."
Neville makes a way out of Faerie using the reality engine. He's not sure where the other end is, beyond "out in shadow somewhere". Neville goes through it, and finds himself on a grassy plane, near a big tent bearing Oberon's standard. He checks out the tent. A card game is set up inside, and the cards aren't dusty. There is also fresh-looking food lying about.
Neville leaves the tent and makes a trump to some random place on Kolvir fairly close to the castle. Neville heads towards the garden.
Cailin and Natasha get dressed. Cailin cautions Kieron not to talk of what he just saw outside of this house. "So what should I do with my notes?"
Natasha walks them into shadow; Cailin gates them into one of the formerly-radioactive shadows. Soyzilla waves at them.
Cailin, Natasha, and Kieron arrive in Amber at about the same time as Neville.
Neville and Cailin discuss the magical signatures present and the apparent lack of Ilks and Jeans. Cailin yetis, grabs his family, and runs to Jenoir. They discuss the snow and the lack of Jeans.
Neville enters the castle and chats with Pattern Suhuy's apprentice. Cailin returns. Neville trumps the trump that he gave to his former head of house. It's in a pouch.
Neville reaches through the trump and finds that his armor from the hand up has been sheared off by something sharp. Neville signs, "Hi, Caine," pulls his hand back, and fixes the armor. When the hand returns, Ilk notices the edge effects of a Logrus blade along the cut. It's Caine's blade.
Neville and Caine discuss the attacks on Neville.
Neville heads to the Golden Circle and finds a Jean. Neville asks Jean to whale him to the place with the angels. Unfortunately, the whale is down for repairs. Ilk and Jean discuss the creation of a one-man whale. A Dworkin is deemed necessary to the process. Neville tries to convince Jean of the solemn nature of his task. Jean is unconvinced.
Ilk and Jean toss out suggestions to Neville ranging from praying to Verra to asking Snarsht to make him fit in a fish.
Neville asks Jean to gather up the magic-eating Morgantis for him. Jean refuses.
Cailin and Kieron go ask Jenoir if they can use magic safely here. "No." They go back to the castle.
[Hell-riding at Yeti speeds!]
Neville asks Jean how to pray to Verra. Jean pulls over a hapless soul and shows Neville the human sacrificial rituals. When Neville raises the sacrificial knife over his head, he disappears.
Neville appears next to Verra, who is near King Laetatio's tomb. She points him towards the rift back to the place with the city of the angels. They discuss multiverse topography.
Verra can send him back to the Paths of the Dead, but he'll probably need a lift from Jean to get out of there.
She will require a mid-sized sacrifice when he gets back -- a moderately large city; one from shadow will do. Either Ilk or Jean could show him how to go about it.
"Oh, and the next time you run into Ilkandacian, tell him that he's late for his date."
"Ummm... okay. I guess he knows what you're talking about."
Neville goes through the rift and flies to the city.
All of Neville's blades are gathered outside of one particular stronghold. There is nothing moving in sight except for the blades.
Neville gathers up the blades and tells his swords that they'll be back later when the angels had a chance to reproduce.
[Teaching Morgantis to manage the ecology of their prey]
He goes back through the rift. Verra cautions him to perform his sacrifice soon, and sends him to the Paths of the Dead. Neville appears in front of Verra's throne.
Neville walks out the main door and finds himself in a corridor. He starts shadow-walking, then uses his escape hatch from the next shadow out to his rooms.
Neville contemplates finding new sheaths for his knives.
Cailin is discussing snow removal with Jenoir.
Kieron is petting the cat. "Pretty kitty".
Cailin - "Say hello to Lord Snarsht, Kieron"
Kieron - "Pretty kitty Lordsnarsht"
The Beastmaster purrs and rubs against Kieron's legs.
Cailin runs to the X-Files shadow to experiment and finds it mostly depopulated. There are lots of corpses about. Cailin raises shields and looks around magically. There's a nasty, virulent disease spreading rapidly. It probably won't effect him. It seems to have started where someone claimed that an alien ship came down, or maybe a cluster of bees, or something like that.
Cailin interrogates a Scully. She mutters about alien invasions and disease or something like that. Cailin watches someone die, and his hand draws a "CC" on the ground as he dies.
Ilk goes to Pharaban's Black Zone shadow. As he enters the shadow, he feels pressured into solid form, and doesn't resist.
Ilk approaches Pharaban's house, and is greeted by a large spidery-thing. It chitters at Ilk and leads him towards the hills, beyond which a sun is setting.
Pharaban coalesces out of the dark rays of a setting anti-sun. Ilk exchanges greetings with Pharaban.
They discuss the amulets, of which Pharaban is already aware. Pharaban would like to digest Julian for all of eternity. He has apparently been digesting Finndo for eons. Pharaban will go off to help Ingold with the amulets.
The guard-creature that greeted Ilk stays near the edge of his perceptions as he walks out and chases off a few smaller creatures.
Ilk leaves the shadow, checks himself over carefully, tendris out, baths in Logrus for a short while, then wanders around Chaos looking for interesting things.
Ilk goes to Suhuy. There are folks in Logrus student robes in supplicant position outside the door.
Ilk finds one of Suhuy's advanced students and points him towards the students. He sighs and wanders off, his experiment dissolving behind him.
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