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In Arden, Jean sees Evil Benedict kill a raccoon and eat it. All of Jean announce, "Arooga, Arooga! Evil Benedict is now in Arden!"
In House Moonlight, Neville tries to uses his trump of Hamster Gerard.
Ferethyn comes storming out into his viewing room. He sees Dworkin and Hamster Dworkin and comes to a sudden halt.
Hamster Gerard is trying for contact at the same time as Neville; they connect. Hamster Gerard asks for reinforcements, and states that they will probably perform a strategic retreat from castle Amber.
Rainbow has pulled himself out of his butterfly form and is back with Snarsht, Andron, and Jenoir.
Neville returns to his room and finds that two of his swords are missing and there is a small pool of blood at his front door in Helgram. He trumps the swords; one of them is chasing someone down a hallway. Neville recalls the sword. It is not pleased. Neville tries to contact the other one; there is a trump block between the two of them. Neville pushes through the block. The sword's hilt is embedded in an iron cube and there is a mage nearby performing magical experiments on it. Neville steps through the contact. He is somewhat unsettled as he goes through - he has entered a very non-ordered environment. His Pattern armor isn't responding too well.
"Excuse me?"
The mage shoots a green stream of something at Neville. Neville parries with the big Morganti.
The guy shouts something in a language that may have been derived from Thari, but Neville doesn't understand the words. Neville gestures threateningly. There is an implosion, and all of the air leaves the room. Neville walks over to the block. The reality engine doesn't work here. Neville starts lifting the iron block and realizes that the block is attached to the large stone table. He turns back, and the mage is gone. Neville doesn't think that the mage was a Helgramite - he may have not even been Chaosian. Neville trumps back, melts the sword out of the block, and throws the block and the table into the garbage disposal in House Helgram's living room.
Neville trumps through to Hamster Gerard. For the briefest moment, he senses a presence as he is going through the trump.
Jean tells Ferethyn that Dworkin is here because he is sane in this place.
Ferethyn looks at Dworkin. "Don't make any more messes!"
"If I recall correctly, that mess was entirely of your making and I just happened to stumble in and disturb you at the wrong time."
Cailin is aware that there is a small golden glow of magic behind Dworkin's head. It's Dworkin's signature.
Jean apologizes for disturbing Ferethyn. Ferethyn states that Jean disturbed his discussion.
Shiryu is now standing in the doorway. He has no expression on his face.
Cailin asks if anyone has seen Princess Chandra.
The sun has not quite set over Amber, but when Snarsht looks up at the sky above the stairwell, Tir is there. Snarsht gathers himself into a tiny little ball of cat-muscle and launches himself at Tir, and lands, quite lightly, on the battlement walls. There is now a beam of moonlight running from Tir into the garden.
Neville asks, "Jean? How can I get past the new Wixer to walk the Primal Pattern?"
"Convince me that it's a good idea."
"I want to power up as much as possible for the upcoming fight."
"Sounds good."
"How do I do that? Don't tell me that you are in control..."
"Err... no, I'm not. I can just convince him to let you pass."
Neville and Hamster Gerard discuss walking the Pattern. Jean warns Neville about the speed bump on the Pattern in the basement. Neville sends his Pattern armor to Hamster Gerard.
Cailin asks, "Could someone point me to the nearest Faerie Gate?"
Shiryu looks at him oddly. "What use have you of a Faerie Gate?"
Cailin explains that he wants his father back. Cailin yetis and turns toward his son and finds himself in Faerie.
There is a glass wall just against his back. Cailin curses at leaving his son behind. There is something very warm, large, and slithery just to his side. It matches the description of what the little yeti was running away from.
Cailin tries to evade the dragon and ends up running into the glass wall.
Hamster Dworkin walks across the table, pats Ferethyn on his hand and says, "Don't worry, it will get better. It always does." and walks back across the table. Ferethyn becomes enraged and there is a mighty krakathum.
Hamster Dworkin, who was apparently expecting this, steps to the side and keeps walking. There is a black smudge on the table.
Ferethyn prepares to smite Hamster Dworkin again, and Hamster Dworkin adjusts his collar, revealing the chain of the Jewel of Judgment.
Dworkin has a completely bland look on his face. Shiryu has a somewhat startled look on his face. This is the first time that anyone has seen Shiryu look startled while this Chaos has existed.
[At a later Council of Realms Lords meeting, Shiryu mentions that he had realized that the master of the piece of fruit was about to attack the Eye of the Serpent, and wasn't sure if he could get back home in time.]
A moment later, Shiryu nods and leaves.
When Shiryu gets back to his reality, he appears in the Serpent's Antechamber, saying, "This will still be here." He nods at Ilk from Shiryu to Serpent's Apprentice, looks at the sleeping form of Princess Chandra, and says, "I believe that her tact may be necessary. I am afraid that I will have to wake her." Ilk moves out of the way.
Shiryu leans down and whispers something in Princess Chandra's ear. Shiryu then pulls a knife out of his body and hands it back to her. Shiryu apologizes to Princess Chandra, and she stands up, stretches, and looks around. Shiryu says something to her that Ilk doesn't catch, and she bows to Shiryu. Something from long ago in Ilk's Etiquette Guild training - she bowed to him as if someone from higher debt acknowledging a great debt owed to someone lesser or by someone lesser. She turns to Ilk, gives him a bow between family, and says, "I must rush off."
Ilk asks Princess Chandra if he should go with her.
"I believe it shall be a conflict of your interest."
Princess Chandra Serpent-pulls out.
Jean tries to distract Ferethyn with a question about power in Faerie. Ferethyn ignores him.
Ferethyn turns back to the argument at hand. A dagger falls on the table in front of him. The Sith wheel is on the hilt of the dagger.
Jean writes a note. "Mom, Dad, Love you very much."
Ferethyn sees the knife and is startled out of his concentration. Ferethyn pats himself down, looking for holes. No holes.
In Arden, Rainbow tells Jean to put some of him near his sister, so that at least some of him will survive this battle. Jean explains the current situation to Verra in Vanir's Wrath.
Cailin realizes that he is in a place with the same dimensions as the courtyard of the castle in Amber. Cailin switches out of Yeti form and creates a light. There is a huge dragon curled around the castle, there are many denizens of Faerie cowering around the castle, and his father is in the basement. The light starts to fade after a few moments.
Cailin creates another light, yetis, and sprints into the basement. He shouts back and forth with Tate, rescues him from his cell, teleports past the dragon, and leaves through the Faerie gate outside Cara. Tate immediately trumps them into shadow.
Cailin explains the situation with Natasha and the twin Titanias. Tate trumps them into the gardens in Amber.
Cailin is in a nightmare. Tate is nowhere to be seen. Cailin cannot turn into a yeti, his magic is immediately drained off in a direction, and things are trying to eat him. Cailin heads in the direction that the magic is going.
Neville has finished walking the Pattern. He is full of energy. Neville brings up a Pattern Lens, but cannot find evil Benedict. He looks for local Benedict, and finds occasional flashes of him scintillating in and out in the gardens in Amber. Neville Pattern-lenses to Corwin, who is reading a missive in Chaos. Corwin doesn't believe Neville. Jean walks up to Corwin and tells him that Neville is in the center of the Primal Pattern. They chat.
Corwin suggests Wixerbrau.
Jean relays to Ilk. Ilk solicits distribution advice from Pattern Suhuy and it starts raining in Arden.
Jean tries to ask Ferethyn a question, is ordered to shut up, and then Dworkin and Hamster Dworkin start discussing courtesy and guest-host relations. Ferethyn seems to have reached a decision. A hole appears in his body with a knife sticking out of it. The knife doesn't hit anything vital. Ferethyn hears the knife hit the ground, spins, sees it, checks for holes, notices one, places a finger in it, and looks around frantically. There is the non-directional sound of fingers tapping in the room.
There is a hole in the covering of wixerbrau. Thanks to Pattern Suhuy's manipulations, it isn't really raining, it's solid. The hole is about three times as large as an Amberite.
Neville tries to throw Evil Benedict into the Sea of Chance.
There is a moment of trans-location. Neville is getting wet. Nobody is standing in front of him.
Jean sprays the Primal Pattern with Wixerbrau. Nobody is there.
Neville checks for holes. He notices one in his abdomen. He holds himself closed. It is a cut that would cause the most fluid to spill out of him while keeping him alive the longest. Now that Neville is aware of it, he's wondering why it doesn't hurt. Neville doesn't think that he can Pattern teleport, so he trumps Hamster Gerard and is pulled through.
Jean heads to the Healers Guild.
Neville wonders if the blade was dipped in an anesthetic - his fingers holding the wound closed cannot feel it.
Jean is told by the Healers that they would be willing to have Neville stop by.
Neville trumps to his room and exits the House. Jean barca-Jeans Neville to the Healers Guild. The healer looks him up and down and says, "We want you survive long enough to pay us. Come in quickly." The healer takes him inside, lies him down on something soft, there is the sound of soft music, and everything fades. The last thing that he remembers before is thirty or forty healers climbing into his intestines.
Cailin realizes that the more magic he casts, the weaker he grows.
Cailin notices a lessening of the nightmare in a direction off to the side of the flow of his power. He heads that way, and notices the garden start to come into focus. It's where the Connor statue was. He goes closer, and trips over a boot. It looks like one of Zack's boots. He feels around, and finds a Zack, still breathing, with a nasty bleeding head wound. When he touches the blood on his head, he can see a single beam of light heading from Zack's head up at an angle in the direction of Tir. Cailin picks Zack up and takes one step in the direction of the light, and finds himself in Tir next to Snarsht.
Cailin asks Snarsht if he would heal Zack. Snarsht nods, licks Zack's head a few times, the wound closes, and Zack wakes up.
Cailin asks Snarsht if there is any way to get power to good Titania in the battle. Snarsht sighs, picks up Zack in his now appropriately-sized mouth, and leaps off Tir into the place below.
Tir disappears. Cailin is now falling. He conjures a parachute, gets a big jerk, and hits the ground on the slopes of Kolvir. He's looking up at the sky and realizing that he has several broken things. Cailin lies on the ground and is miserable. He goes to sleep.
There is a thin line of snow falling on Cailin. Cailin wraps his parachute around himself.
Osric is in Amber City. He heard the announcement about evil Benedict being in Arden, and decided that getting the death cloud to the null/radioactive zone in the Golden Circle should have a detour to eat evil Benedict. The piece that Osric was communicating with is teaching the rest of it language.
Osric funnels the big part of the cloud into the radioactive zone. While doing so, he notices the disappearance of Tir and something plummeting.
Osric decides to look for the source of the death cloud later, and heads up to get a good perspective on things after changing his color and brightness to match the sky. He feels himself being pinned in place by a chunk of magic with Jenoir's signature all over it. Osric scolds Jenoir with writing on the ground near her with his power. Jenoir releases him.
The Arden area is mostly inundated by a brownish fog. There are two places where the fog is not. The front place is heading towards the castle, and the back on is going to intercept the one in front.
Osric prepares to hit the front gap with the smaller part of the death cloud. Just before the pancake hits, there is a sizzling sound, Osric's friend the pancake goes yum, and then whatever it was disappears. The cloud tells Osric that it got something, but isn't sure what.
The second space in the wixerbrau has now changed course. It's heading out towards the edge of Arden.
Osric scoops up the cloud.
Jenoir is now trying to convince Pattern Suhuy to spread out the wixerbrau. Ilk helps.
Cailin gets a trump contact in his sleep. He takes it, hears, "Oh. My. That's not good. Don't worry." and stops dreaming.
There is a polite tap on the outside of one of Suhuy's ways. It's the King. The King looks at Suhuy and says, "We have been requested that our current adviser be taken almost immediately to the head of his house. He requires aid." She gestures towards the undead Cailin.
Suhuy brings Cailin to Cailin.
Suhuy is under a slight snowfall near the three steps leading to Kolvir. Cailin is lying on the ground, looking broken. Suhuy updates the apprentice to ecto-Suhuy. Undead Cailin is scribbling things on Cailin and bits of shattered bone.
Suhuy checks for the approaching spot. It will reach the hill in about four minutes. He asks undead Cailin if they would move Cailin in the next minute. Undead Cailin draws a bibliomantic circle around the two of them and they disappear.
Suhuy tells ecto-Ilk. Ecto-Ilk tells Jenoir about the circle. Jenoir asks Osric to encase some magical power in a globe of his power and unleash it near a bibliomantic circle. He does so.
Jenoir and Andron discuss timing the release. Jenoir checks with Corwin, and receives a release distance.
The Bouncing Betty goes off.
The energy created or caused by the intersection of the two powers blew the hell out of Osric's sphere - wiped it out entirely, gone. The wixerbrau that was creeping up the hill is wiped out. Ecto-Suhuy staggers and sits down. The steps to Kolvir are no longer where they were - they're embedded half-way up the wall of the castle. There's a big hole in the mountain, and loam is scattered everywhere.
Jean notices a piece of a finger stuck on the ceiling. He tractors it, and looks for more. About sixty degrees later, there is a flap of skin from somewhere. Suhuy goes up to look at the bits. He can't perceive them - there is a little region into which his tendrils cannot pass. Ecto-Ilk points out to Jenoir that the Logrus-shielding on the bits of flesh are still present. Osric gates the pieces to the Torturer's Guild, and Faythe prepares to open an account.
When the two Dworkins hear the drumming they look around, look guilty, and stop the taunting. Unfortunately, Ferethyn decides "Not in his home, damn-it", and casts a spell that should reveal everything in the room. At the same time, the glow behind Dworkin's head increases slightly, and the spell doesn't reveal Dworkin, Dworkin, or Princess Chandra. Ferethyn has reversed the trajectory of the knife in his mind and is blasting raw power at where he thinks Princess Chandra may be. At this point in time, the two Dworkins look at each other. The Amberoid Dworkin looks at Jean, apologizes in advance in case he goes crazy, and the two Dworkins step out into the Hamster reality.
Jean turns to Jenoir and asks her what she thinks of Ferethyn?
"He might have just laid the smack-down on Princess Chandra"
When Suhuy enters his realm in Chaos, Shiryu is there.
"I believe that Ferethyn has temporarily lost his balance."
[Suhuy and Shiryu converse. The contents of said notes passed shall not enter the run logs]
In the hamster world, Dworkin's eyes begin to cloud. The hamster Dworkin does something, and that Dworkin just stops, and hamster Dworkin falls over.
Jean turns all of the shields near rifts black-on-black tartan to deactivate the view-screens.
Ferethyn is losing his shit on the presence of a possible Princess Chandra. He seems to notice that both Dworkins are missing, and has apparently forgotten completely about Jean. Since the Jewel of Judgment is gone, Princess Chandra has returned to the Serpent's Antechamber.
Princess Chandra turns to the Serpent's Apprentice and says, "My, you should see that."
Ilk asks Princess Chandra what Suhuy should do about Dworkin wanting to talk to his little brother. She suggests that he stall and evade.
For some reason, even when Ferethyn is doing massive area attack spells, nothing touches Jean. Any magic that reaches Jean just dies before it touches him.
Ferethyn gets worse and worse, and then there is a pause, and then things are momentarily back the way they were back before he lost his shit. The room is completely fine and clean, and there is an image of Dworkin and Dworkin, but they are not really there. Ferethyn comes in, stops, and reverses himself. Then the images are gone, Ferethyn walks in, and says, "Hi, Jean." Ferethyn is confused and looks around, as if seeing the place for the first time, or with new eyes.
Nobody who was hanging out by the hut is still there. Jenoir, Andron, Rainbow, ecto-Ilk, and Pattern Suhuy are all missing.
Jean asks about the view screens and then changes his shield color back to Mr. Yuck Green, and the windows reform. Jean asks Ferethyn about Dworkin, and mentions that Dworkin seems to be sane here.
There is a momentary rippling of the wall near the map in Arden. Rainbow pulls himself off of the wall, and dusts himself off. Rainbow claims to not be sure of what was going on.
Pattern Suhuy and ecto-Ilk found themselves in Suhuy's ways. Unfortunately, so did the Savior of Chaos. There is something in ecto-Ilk's pocket. He reads the note, the contents of which shall not be entered in the run logs.
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