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My notes are extremely sketchy from this run. Any additions are greatly welcome.
[Large chunks of this log have been donated]
In Suhuy's place currently:
Cassandra and Darhyse chat and decide to go to Pearl via Osric. The inform the bodyguards and Cailin that they are leaving, but give no word as to what the destination is, nor how long the trip is going to be.
Ilk sends Cassandra, her bodyguards, Darhyse, and Cailin near House Cara. He tries for the roof, but discovers what Jean meant by "well ... it's fixed now, the house isn't disappearing any more" and discovers that the Gentleman Suhuy was responsible.
Cailin levitates up the side of the wall, managing the shifting Pattern well. Osric and Zack are betting on if and when he is going to make it. The others wander around inside until they find the roof. Once upon the roof, Cassandra joins Cailin, Osric, and Zack at a table. There is a barcalounger on the side that has a slowly disappearing bottle of wine next to it. Cassandra asks Osric for a lift to Pearl. "I'm sorta House-sitting right now." Cailin groans. Darhyse is grinning. They chat. Zack hands Osric a trump of himself, but expects to get it back. Darhyse turns into a cloak, after some discussion of becoming a sword. Some other discussions go on, including about Zack's well-being.
Osric shields the mob, opens a teleport gate into the Abyss, and anchors the group off the side of the gate. Osric kills the demons worshipping the gate, and the group passes through the gate. The demons worshipping seemed to be much less organized this time around, and there is no statue.
One of the bodyguards and Cailin are determined to be Fringeworthy. The close-in bodyguards are careful to stand next to Cassandra, but the outer perimeter guards go exploring the platform, and are warned by Osric about what happens at the edge. One of them stages a demonstration with a throwing knife. Osric summons a car to take them to a Fringe gate exiting on the other side of the Barrier. Two of Cassandra's bodyguards ride on top of the car.
They pass out into a place that is familiar to Cassandra. They can see an abandoned castle, loose horses, and an orchard. The area appears to have been abandoned for ten or fifteen years.
Multiple trump conversations happen. Corwin is told that there are guests, and asks for time. Cassandra suggests enough time to finish his workout and get changed, and arranges to trump back in an hour or so. Corwin is looking completely healed. There are no traces of sand or his death.
Osric goes back through onto the fringe and heads to a control center. From there, he checks on the pattern match that the Fringe is doing for him on the demons (no match yet), checks on the status of the "bad spots" (no further spreading), and checks on the state of the Melor (still contagious for the type ones). He exits the Fringe at another spot not in the Abyss, trumps Zack, and is pulled through.
Cailin experiments with the Fringe gate, which he can see as a rainbow shimmer in the air. He is sucked through the gate a few times. Cassandra chastises him non-fatally for not letting her know what was going on first before playing with a strange power source.
Time passes; they go through to Pearl for a formal dinner.
A discussion of recent events occurs in Suhuy's place between Jean, Ilk, and the Norton in Celeste's head. This Ilk finds out about the plethora of Gwen temples, the almost random fighting going on in the Golden Circle, the almost lack of interest/fighting in the Black Zone, Jean's new House, and Norton's new House. Almost all of this is filtered through Jean's perceptions.
At the start of the run, Norton is at 90% of the 80% of Vlad needed to rebuild him; at the end of the run he has reached 95%.
Neville contacts the outliers from his House; they seem to be willing to support the new order. Neville goes to Helgram, gives a lost mecha-Jean directions out of the House, and keeps a bunch of his folks from suiciding against Jean. Jean walks over the fortifications and out. Many run out of the fortifications after Jean. "Do you guys have any pamphlets on politeness?" Jean ignores the charge and starts lecturing the attackers on politeness. Mecha-Jean goes off to Swayville; one saucer stays behind and reads to a few converts from a book of politeness given to one of the Jeans by Flora. Neville directs people to rebuild the House and reconnect the severed ways.
A few Jean demons are reading from the book aloud.
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