This sheet contains links to timelines for (eventually) each of the player characters, which will try to track each of their overt actions and positions, linking to the logs relevant to each action or set of actions. I've got to be insane to undertake something that would eventually entail updating many pages after each run, but it seems like a good idea at the present, and strikes me as more entertaining than grinding through a few more logs and pulling them out of draft status.
Aramek does nothing obvious, but almost certainly involving torturing and killing people, in a shadow near Amber while shaped as a strange hunchback. (960528, 960611) He interrogates and kills one of Malachai's drovers and acquires some information about the caravan and its route (960618), hides in the caravan as Malachai pulls it through to Amber, then stirs up trouble in Amber City. (960625). Participates in a riot in Amber City, picks a fight with Zack, and is recruited by Caine as a cabin boy. (960709)
Trains some of Caine's sailors in the use of various weapons, beats up a sea serpent, and is hired formally by Caine, who seems to understand his nastiness. (960716). Arrives at the Amber Formal Court shaped as an attractive woman, and leads some of Caine's sailors in battle against Julian's invading force. (960820). Shifts into a spidery form, kills some of Julian's troops, and mates with another spidery thing quite catastrophically, at least for the surrounding shadow. (960903). Encounters Zack, Malachai, Stormy, and Auricle, and turns into an unconscious little boy. (960917) Wakes up, goes to Omega with the Amberite mob, and stays there. (961029 - text, 961105)
Aramek, to the best of our knowledge, is still in Omega, doing nothing of note.
Requested by Suhuy to examine the suitability of Cathryne for higher study in the Logrus. Requests information on Cathryne from Rivka, but receives none, so sets out to observe in person. (960528) Heads to Dragaera, *bamf*s around shadow for a while, exchanges notes, and finally, due to Clarissa's intervention and a malfunctioning bug spell, greets Cathryne, with Clarissa, Rivka, Zack, Morrolan, and Sethra observing the exchange. (960604) Sorcerous shop-talk with Morrolan, an inconclusive confrontation with Mikail (960611), hunting folx Morrolan doesn't like in Dragaera, is asked to tutor Cathryne by Suhuy and agrees, starts a riot in Dragaera while squishing Mikail clones (960618), researches Mikail's demons, and watches Cathryne's duel with Julian with the House Jesby contingent. (960625). Chats with Morrolan about Morganti blades (960702), visits a Seroli shrine and is mind-reamed by Clarissa (960709). Chats with Cathryne about Mikail and sets up a schedule of study and examines Home for Clarissa's influence. (960716 and 960813)
Joins the defense of Arden against Julian, bringing some Chaosian and Faerie troops with him to fight under Zack's banner, along with his cousin, the current head of House Cara and Cathryne. Uses the battle as a laboratory in which to teach Cathryne stupid Logrus tricks. (960820) Explodes, (960827) and exists in unconscious gobbets of Ilk scattered across the battlefield (960903). Coalesces, and falls through a crack in reality to a place where the Logrus wants to walk him. (960910) Is taken from the wrong Chaos to the wrong Tir by the wrong Flora, where he finds the right Cathryne and enters another wrong Amber, where Stormy turns (another, wrong) Fiona into a grey sphere. (960917)
Stormy then returns Ilkandacian to the right Chaos, and he checks in, goes Home and takes a nap, then starts looking for his cousin, who is missing. (960924)
No, actually another Stormy arrived with Melk, the Timelord, (The GM is a liar) and prevented the first Stormy from sphering Fiona. Ilk is abandoned in Fiona's lab in a wrong Amber when the Stormies and Melk leave, and Cathryne takes a one-way trip back into Tir and cannot be followed. (961015) Ilk flees to a shadow where neither the Logrus nor the Pattern reach, and hides in a badger hole. (961022) Ilk continues hiding in a badger-hole, experimenting magically with the locals. (961105) Continues hiding in a badger hole, gets into a duel, and tries to protect his hidey-hole from cross-shadow invaders. (961112). Ilk tentatively brings up the Logrus, and uses a few tendrils to help him stomp on and mind-ream a few small, furry animals, and discovers that there are a number of Logrus-using artifacts bearing the marks of the Psionicists' Guild and the Mages' Guild behind the invasion. (961203) Ilk splats a few more badgers, and is then brought back to his Courts by Stormy, who gives him another Stormy in the form of a pendant which becomes a staff. (961217)
Ilk observes the AD&D run arrive in Chaos with Ingold, plays with some demons, witnesses the debacle over the Abyss, assumes control of House Cara, and goes to an emergency Council meeting. (970107) Battles Dara and the Jesby imposter along with Mandor, the Stormy-staff, and Cathryne. (970114-text) Chats with the AD&D run (970121), and mucks around Chaos a bit. (970204-text) Deals with the not-quite-demons wreaking havoc in House Cara, and sets out in search of Cara and Jesby with Cathryne. (970218) Sleeps with Verra, is abandoned by Cathryne, goes to Amber, Arden, Home, and finally returns to the Courts, and does house-head-ish things. (970304) Joins with the AD&D run to defend House Felicity (970318-text) and Mandorways. Has tea with Mandor. (970325-text). Tries to keep Theresa from trashing the Shapeshifters' Guild, fails, and locates Carlton. (970408-text)
Does House stuff, finds Zack in Dragaera and follows him to Amber, experiences too much Pattern, meets Norton. (log970429-text) Has dinner with the AD&D run and Random (and Norton, Sethra, Martin, Owen, Cathryn, and some vapid zombies stop by to join in the fun) (970506-text) Hangs out in Amber and helps out Damia, (970513-text) is brushed off and then ditched by Zack (970520-text), acquires a staple remover from Dworkin and helps Jesby find Oberon (970527-text), and starts repopulating the Castle with servants matching Damia's criteria (970603-text). Donates more power than expected to a ritual in Arden, meets Cassandra again, falls through that same crack in Reality again trying to teleport Home, joins with Jesby and Cathryne as they destroy an alternate castle Amber and kill an alternate Julian, trumps the group back to their Chaos, and tells Snarsht about Norton, who turns out to be a long-lost apprentice. (970610-text) Is yelled at by Snarsht about Norton's cracked state, and volunteers to aid in his reconstruction. Returns to Amber to help Cathryne track down a missing alternate Greyswandir, does a few loops with Random and Damia, then teleports to and from Chaos to leave a note inviting Flora to the Pattern party. (970617-text)
Fetches servants for Cathryne's Pattern party from shadow at the behest of Martin's staff. Arrives at the party just in time to witness the first assassination attempt, has his defensives dropped by a two-pronged attack including Pattern, then teleports Cathryne and himself Home. Goes to Mandorways with Cathryne, then returns to the party after acquiring Jesby. (970624-text) While at the party is frequently confused with someone in charge, then returns to Chaos to acquire Snarsht after Eric takes over Norton's body. (970701-text) Chases after Snarsht/Norton/Eric, helps Norton reconstitute, wards some Gwen dust, and is pulled into a shifters trap by Celeste. Pulled back out by Norton and Celeste, discovers that something nasty has happened to Stormy, and starts accumulating forces to defend against a possible attack by House Helgram. (970708) Acquires allies and reinforcements, including the entire Pattern party, is threatened by Rainbow (970715), is kicked into shadow by a Logrus bomb, meets Osric and returns to the battle with him, in part via the Fringe, has his shadow storm taken over by Shiryu, is yelled at by Snarsht for leaving Norton, accidentally connects to a Pattern being drawn in House Jesby, and does Logrus-defense when the opposing troops attack. (970722-text) After the battle has been won, returns to House Cara along with many Amberites, then heads towards House Helgram along with those who were left in Chaos after Ingold's announcement and Benedict's response. (970729-text) Withdraws from a vastly superior force into Faerie, returns to House Cara along with half of Zack's Sidhe just before of the charging army.
Opens the flood gates to Home, and chats with Clarissa, who sends him many Dzurlords with full Morganti swords. Acquires a REN, now apprentice to the Dancers Guild, from Rainbow (970805-text), has tea with Mandor on the roof of House Cara, and is given a restorative by Ingold. (970812-text) Grants sanctuary to Jesby, whose House was overrun by the enemy, encounters several journeymen from the Etiquette Guild, who say that the Guilds are withdrawing their support from the Houses until they settle down, and then acquires support from the Beastmasters, Dancers, and Shifters Guilds. Sends a note to Amber, addressed to Benedict, Corwin, and Zack, explaining some of the problems. (970819-text) Allies with House Barimen, then sends the House Barimen rep off with some of his shifters from Home to rescue and ally with some of the nearby minor Houses. (970826-text) Andron arrives in the form of Snarsht, explains that Toram has imprisoned his wife, and fills him in on much of what they've been missing. A plan is generated, and Ilk goes Home to sleep. (970902-text) Goes to House Chanicut to remove a chaos rift with Norton's help, then returns Home.
Starts breaking the group into Suhuy's realm. (970909-text) Takes REN, Andron, and Bella through. (970916-text) Takes Osric, Norton, and Rainbow through. Avoids being turned into a playing card, and restores those who were. (970923-text) Takes Clarissa through, pushes the group into Suhuy's workroom, and redirects the defenses onto a magical seal of Toram's devising, which destroys the seal and summons Toram. (970930-text) Alerts Clarissa and Rainbow to Toram's presence (971007-text), then turns into Logrus tendri and Morgantis Toram when he is occupied dealing with Norton's fish. Continues searching Suhuy's realm, and finds the sanctuary where many high-ranking guild members are hiding. (971014-text) Jenoir is found and rescued (971021), Clarissa is retrieved from Suhuy's workroom, some of Toram's blood is given to Jenoir, and Rainbow and REN are found and reconstituted. (971104) Mingles and watches people arrive (971111), introduces a newly-arrived Cassandra to Princess Chandra, then takes a brief nap. (971118)
Present during Jenoir's elevation ceremony, then tendri'd out and plugged holes punched into the stables while the Ilk in Norton helped ferry powerful people back and forth to the fight with Toram. (971125) Moves the elevation party into Suhuy's realm proper. Norton's possession is discovered. (971202) Prepares a fish-trap for incoming mages, and helps a number of people leave Suhuy's digs. (971216) Bounces in and out of Suhuy's realm. (971230) (980106) Leaves Suhuy's place to defend Home. (980113) Both Ilk-laden Nortons travel with a mob from Cobalt to Amber, then one Ilk-laden Norton goes to Home, starts helping in the defense, participates in a strange trump call. (980120) The Ilk-laden Norton in Amber helps Cassandra recover Darhyse from Julian, (980127) (980203) experiments with the buzzing in Castle Amber, (980210) helps try to free Flora, and flees from Toram. (980217) I-l N in A helps fight the jade guys in Garnath, blocks the pass with stony corpses, and heads into Tir with Cassandra, Snarsht, Ilk prime, and the other Norton. (980224) Kills and interrogates illegal immigrants attacking Cassandra. (980303-text) Backup for Cassandra's re-recovery of Darhyse. (980310-text) Ilks in Nortons are kicked out of Norton's head, shift their escape pods into plasmatic flying saucers, and flee from Norton and flying Pattern-Trump toothpicks. Ilk prime plays in Garnath with Jean and the jade guys. (980317-text) Convinces Jean to Pattern-teleport to Suhuy. (980324-text) Gates to Darkover with Cassandra, Celeste, and Brand and helps fix Clarissa and spack Toram's soul. (980407-text) (980414-text) Ilk prime escorts Cassandra to Princess Chandra. The head people all get their own bodies. One Ilk takes a group on a grand tour of Chaos to help Houses, and the third Ilk helps Mandor in Norton cook. The pseudo-Ilk defending House Cara is upgraded to full Ilk status. (980421-text) The grand tour starts reassembling Vlad.
Ilk in Clarissa's tower plus a mob finds Jean and rescues Suhuy. (980428-text) Trumps out of the place from which Suhuy was recovered, goes to Darkover, receives a strange trump call, attends a ceremony in the Assassins' Guild honoring Clarissa; rests in Home waiting for Suhuy's inevitable summons; continues Grand tour. (980505-text) Ilk with Clarissa goes to Darkover then Castle Amber to spack the last part of Toram. (980512-text) Ilk in Amber attends Flora's party, and Ilk prime leaves Home and briefs Suhuy. (980519-text) Suhuy and Ilk prime join the party in Amber. (980602-text) Both Ilks in Amber attend Clarissa's formal court. (980609-text)
Ilk's timeline becomes too complex too track, thanks to the large number of Ilks.
For an excellent and well-written first-person description of Malachai's actions, read Malachai's journals.
Is doing caravan stuff in the Golden Circle, (960528) when he is called back to Arden to deal with a one-man invasion by Julian. (960611) Forestalls an invasion of Arden by Corwin by hunting out of control hellhounds with him. (960618) Chats with Cassandra and Zack concerning recent events. (960702) Defends the docks during a riot in Amber City. (970709) Conversations in the aftermath of the riots. (960716) Is confirmed by Oberon as Corwin's eldest and Ranger One in Arden, and fights in the defense of Amber against another invasion by Julian. (960820, 960827, and 960903) Manages the cleanup of the battle and encounters far too many Oberons. (960910) Deals with an Aramek-arachnid. (960917) Miscellaneous stuff around Amber. (961015) Wanders off with the Amberite mob, and splits off just in time to avoid being sucked into Omega. (961029) Takes Tazik on a vacation, (961112) and is called back to Amber and placed in charge despite his objections. (961126)
Accidentally frees countless tiny demons (961210), deals with the source of the imps, and tries to give Gerard the regency. (970107) Is talked into possibly proposing to Serena (970121), and does so (970204-text). Does regent stuff. (970218-text). Catches up with Zack and Auricle's recent adventures into other realities. (970304) Does regent stuff and is introduced to Theraat and Flora-bits. (970311-text) Does regent stuff. (970325-text) Meets Celeste and Ferro, squishes demons (970408-text), cleans up after demon-goo (970415-text). Deals with far too many possible invasions, meets "Queen Paulette" and the AD&D run, and trumps out in search of Oberon. (970429-text).
Yanked out of trump-transit by Darkstar and goes to Pearl with him, Celeste, and Trialla in search of Corwin. Reunited with an amnesiac Cassandra. (970506-text) Does blood rituals at Corwin's Pattern, (970513-text) travels to Darkover (970520-text) and watches as Cassandra gets her memory back (970527-text). Leaves Darkover and travels to Faerie to acquire Titania's aid in the quest for Corwin's soul (970603-text). Goes to the site of Corwin's wounding in Arden, the Wand of Not Yet becomes a suicidal arrow, and drags them on a supersonic hellride to a hot place, which they exit via Faerie. (970610-text) Trumps back Arden (970617-text) and returns to the castle.
Attends Cathryne's Pattern-party, where an assassin tries to kill Cassandra repeatedly, killing all of her bodyguards in the process. They isolate the assassin after the second transit, to a grassy knoll, where Malachai stirs up the assassin's innards with Galantine. (970624-text) Goes into Pearl where Corwin is revived. (970701-text) Hangs out in Pearl, then returns to the Pattern party with Corwin and Cassandra. (970708) Leaves the party, trumps to the Courts, and joins in the battle by the Abyss. (970715) (970722-text) Takes his time killing one of his companions from his days as a captive of House Hendrake, then returns to Castle Amber after Benedict declares a rebellion against Oberon. (970729-text) Helps Benedict deal with an invasion through Begma by slaughtering the mages gating in the troops (970819-text) and eventually reducing the remaining enemy troops into a tight defensive knot. Has an encounter with white horses on his way back to Amber, and acquires a white dust sample.
Discovers Serena is missing, meets the hillbilly Deirdre and ghost of Suhuy (970902-text) Begins his quest for Serena with Corwin and Osric. Discovers he is not fringe-worthy while Merlin is being de-stasised. Acquires a homing beacon derived from Serena's trump, and continues the search. (970909-text) Is separated from Corwin and Osric in a blizzard (970923-text), enters Lovi's castle, finds a blinded, tortured Tazik, and watches Serena fade out with the kid. (970930-text) Leaves the cold place with Tazik, encounters four horsemen with very silly names in a tavern. (971007-text) Meets up with Zack, acquires Celeste's help, and trumps into a trap. (971014-text ) Rescues the jar containing Serena's mind, conscripts Corwin to rescue Serena's body, then goes to Cobalt, where Serena is reconstituted. (971021) Helps Corwin raid the castle of the kid who kidnapped Serena, then is yanked to Pearl by a couple of Sha'um under Cassandra's orders. Defends Cassandra against another assassination attempt. (971104)
Leaves Pearl with Cassandra, and joins Jenoir's elevation party in Chaos. (971118) Trumps out, leaving a Pattern squid behind in his place, then trumps back again along with Celeste. Gibbers at the squid during the elevation ceremony, but stops in time to kill demons. (971125) Lots of demons. (971202) After the ceremony, teleported by Ilk to Ygg along with Corwin and starts Pattern walking towards Cobalt. Merlin trumps in, carrying Norton. Arrives in Cobalt, takes a bath with Serena, (971216) visits a Cobaltian party, and flees towards Amber right before the Spiral-shattering kaboom. (980106) Gets stuck at a Pattern block around Amber, (980113) but eventually arrives in Amber with considerably more company than when he left Cobalt. (980120) Expends lots of ammo shattering the watery blue things attacking Arden. (980127) Hangs out in Arden, contemplating an electrified Darhyse. (980203) Reaches Amber castle, reports to Prospero, (980210) participates in a strange trump call, acquires Chen and Rainbow, examines Flora's bonds, then goes to Garnath to help Prospero repel an invasion. (980217) Acquires reinforcements, repulses an attack by jade people living in the rock, and helps interrogate a prisoner. (980224) Provides ground support for Cassandra's assault on Tir to rescue Darhyse. (980303-text ) (980310-text) Heads towards Amber castle, but returns to Garnath to deal with another attack before reaching his destination. (980317-text) Turns over command to Prospero, and returns to castle Amber for a nap. (980407-text) Trumps into shadow (980414-text) to investigate Gwen's intrusions into Begma, (980421-text) Kashfa, and Vain with Osric. Meets his horse's son on Failla-Bionin, (980428-text) continues into Rebma, and discovers Llewella's touch. (980505-text) Returns to Amber (980512-text) and attends Flora's party (980519-text) (980602-draft) and Clarissa's formal court. (980609-draft)
In Dragaera as Zachnefaen the Issola (960528), and acquires Clarissa as "Fiona" to second Julian's upcoming duel with Cathryne. (960604 ) Is trumped by Malachai and pulled to Arden to deal with a lone invading Julian. Stashes Julian in Faerie. (960611) Tries to convince Julian not to kill the new warder in Arden, and takes him to the Locked Room. Helps negotiate terms with Suhuy and Cathryne, then begins preparations for the duel. (960618) Is second for Julian's duel with Cathryne (960625), leads Julian off to a quiet shadow, loses him, finds Morrolan for Teldra, and plays in Dragaera for a while. (960702) Tries to help quell the riots in Amber town, fights with Aramek, and rebuilds with Stormy afterwards. (960709) (960716)
Hauls an unconscious Titania back into Faerie (960813). Opposes his father's invasion (960820), tries to get close enough to talk, gives up on talking, but prevents Logan from killing Julian. (960827) Follows Trialla, who is leaving the field of battle carrying Julian's body (960903), pulls Cassandra to him, trumps Oberon and receives permission to take Julian captive, gets Julian dropped on the Ygg side of the Barrier, and goes into Faerie to leave Pearl. (960910) Reunites with Auricle, has Turvallen tasked with finding Julian, and goes to Amber to deal with a giant spider-shaped Aramek. (960917) Trumps the dead (including Connor, oops) while babysitting Aramek (960924) (961022)
Helps Logan and Arielle get home and hitches a ride on the White Dragon along with a mob of Amberites (961029), ends up in Omega, and hooks up with Cathryne, Theraat, and company in the Omega City Mall. Tries to ditch them via Faerie (961105), but ends up back in Omega, then leaves with the non-local mob, minus Aramek. (961119) Loses (the wrong) Flora, invades (the wrong) House Cara to retrieve her, and starts reassembling her. (961203) (961217) Recovers Auricle from Faerie and a grabby demon and flees from a lone decency cop. (970114-text) Reaches Tir and Pattern-teleports out (970128-text), arriving near Ygg in much pain. Breaks several regen tanks on Flora. (970211-text) Loots Rhiannon's laboratory, rests for several weeks, and returns to Amber. (970225) Briefs Malachai (970304), chats with Caine and Benjamin (970311-text), walks the Primal Pattern, and acquires a new Jewel from Auricle. (970318-text) Worries about Gwen statues (970325-text), and helps squish demons (970408-text) (970415-text)
Travels to Dragaera with Auricle, trying to lose Norton, encounters first Cathryne and Sethra then Ilk, returns to Amber with Sethra, Auricle, and Ilk, brushes off Ilk, and Pattern-teleports out. (970429-text) Ends up in a hot place, escapes to the wrong Amber (970506-text), and fools around in Tir before Pattern-teleporting back. Ends up in Chaos, and returns to Amber. (970513-text) Muddles around in Amber (970520-text), goes to Darkover (970527-text), goes to Faerie and returns with Titania in tow (970603-text), and tries to locate Corwin, ending up back in a similar hot place, where a melting block is acquired. Escapes through Faerie (970610-text), trumps to Arden, then re-enters Faerie (970617-text) and helps Titania recovery by feeding her energy (970624-text).
Drops in on Cathryne's Pattern party, bringing Theraat and the damaged Flora along. Rejoins Malachai, Cassandra, Celeste, and a possessed Norton, enters Pearl, and witnesses Corwin's revival. Opens the crystalline block, which reveals a stasised Merlin, then returns to the Pattern part. (970701-text) Hellrides after Norton/Eric, Snarsht, and Ilk. Catches up, plays with Gwen dust, then goes to Benedict in the Courts of Chaos to effect a rescue of Norton, Ilk, and Celeste, who got stuck in a shifters trap. (970708) Is invited to and joins the battle vs Helgram troops near the Abyss, acquiring some Sidhe troops and helping free Ingold from that shifters trap. (970715) Fights. (970722) (970729-text) Facilitates a strategic withdrawal from the Courts (970805-text), looks for Darkstar, investigates weirdness in Amber, encounters Paolo, and starts hunting bugs. (970812-text) (970826-text) Is formally released from House Barimen. (970902-text) Plays Faerie-shuttlebus for Celeste. (971007-text) (971014-text) Continues the bug hunt. (971111) Auricle trumps in, in time to help find the source of the uber-locusts, located near a pyramid in Toram's lands, and dispose of the Toram bug chow. (971223) Returns to Amber, notices the dead servants, reports to Prospero, investigates the watery things in Arden, ends up attached to a table underwater, and escapes through Faerie. (980113)
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David Kern (dskern@haven.org)