Upon scrambling up the rope which Rose's grappling hook 
had secured, the Heroic Trio dashed up and into the room at the 
top of the tower. This contained, among other interesting 
things, Le Greenhaired Chick and a moving, talking trump 
tapestry of a guy with piercing eyes and black hair. Le Chick 
was debating whether or not to hightail it out of there.

	Deciding not to give her a choice in the matter, Rianna 
hit the tapestry with a trump disrupt. Ishmael whipped off a 
bandanna and threw it, giving her a nasty blow to the head. 
Rose, being in demonform, charged.

	Three statues, portraying Benedict, Julian, and Gerard, 
came to life and began advancing on Rianna. She promptly 
threw a Magic Negation at Ben, stopping him cold. Le Chick 
began fumbling with a nasty-looking orb on a stand. Rose kept 
charging. Ishmael leapt forward, sword converting to a 
crossbow, and yelled for Rose to duck. Rose did, diving forward 
in a tackle, and Ish put a bolt through Le Chick's shoulder.

	The statues kept up their advance. Rianna slung a magic 
negation at the orb. Much to her dismay, it bounced back, 
negating her spells of fire protection. Luckily for her, Ish's 
thermal suit was not negated, rendering her uncomfortable but 
un-charred. She threw yet another negation at Gerard, leaping 
onto a chair as she retreated. A thrown dagger by 'Julian' cut 
her in the shoulder, wounding her.

	Le Chick, annoyed about being shot, used the orb to blast 
a lightning bolt at Ish. He quickly converted the crossbow to a 
shield, which saved him from being flashfried. As it was, he 
was blown backwards across the room. Standing, he put a bolt 
through Le Chick's hand. She screamed in pain, and then Rose 
slammed into her like a ton of bricks. After a brief, thorough 
beating, she passed out.

	Ish converted the crossbow to a spear and threw it, 
punching a whole through the remaining statue. The statue 
turned to face him; converting a spare weapon into an axe, Ish 
cut it's sword arm off at the wrist, taking a light wound in return. Disarmed, the statue was quickly hacked to bits.

	The three carefully gathered up all the trumps, papers, 
and tapestries in the room. The orb was placed inside a 
specially shielded box built by Ishmael; Le Chick was stripped 
of all her clothing (cloth trumps, after all) and redressed in a 
straitjacket. A ring and two earings were removed from her. 
After boobytrapping the tower, the three trumped to Amber 
with their prisoner.

	After some misadventures with getting the keys, they 
led their prisoner down into a trump-shielded cell. A 
combination of drugs from Ishmael and psyche from Rianna 
broke down the unconsious prisoner's mental defenses, and her 
memories were reviewed. She was found to be Findy, daughter 
of Finndo - but the Finndo of an alternate universe! In her 
version of Amber, Osric reigned as king... this was the man she 
was speaking to on the tapestry. The two universes had 
somehow become connected by the drawing of Corwin's 
Pattern.

	She had set out to kill Rose after seeing an alarming 
vision in Tir Na Nog; that of Rose breaking into her bedroom 
with Ishmael's axe and cutting her into extra-chunky salsa. 
Findy knew nothing about the spiders; her presense in the mind 
of the ones in Rianna's workroom was simply the result of her 
sneaking in to plant a bug. In fact, she was unaware that our 
Amber was a real alternate version; both she and Osric thought 
that it was merely a flawed shadow of their Amber.

	Guessing that she might have more useful information, 
Ishmael downloaded her memories into an organic storage 
matrix with Rianna's help. After a short nap, they woke Findy 
up, explained the situation to her, and got her promise to knock 
off the attacks. Realizing that a rescue team would shortly 
attack Amber to free her, the three left her in the cell and 
trumped up to Random's breakfast hall.

	After explaining the situation, Random summoned all of 
the other Elders available. (Benedict was still uncontactable.) 
They trumped Osric, and after some discussion with him 
arranged to hold a summit to discuss relations. Findy remained 
in temporary custody.

	Caine, during all of this, was dressed in bandages - 
apparently he had been burned in his room by something.

	After the trump conversation, Random asked the three to 
do him a favor. A King John, lord of a nearby shadow, claimed 
to be descended from Eric and was making noises about being 
the rightful lord of Amber. Random wanted the three to quietly 
check up on him, and acertain if he really was of royal blood - 
and if someone was pulling his strings.

	Trumping to Ish's apartments in Chaos, the three went to 
a fasttime Way in Hendrake. There, the spent some time 
cataloguing the trumps, looking over the papers, and reviewing 
the items. The ring turned out to be a distress beacon, the 
earing trump accessories, and the orb a sopisticated construct 
known as a Palantir. Once attuned to it, the bearer could use it 
to draw upon massive psyche reserves. Via dint of a glove that 
masked psyche patterns, Ish and the others managed to make 
use of it, attuning Rianna to the Palantir.

------------------------

Quotes from the session:

"Hello, your majesty. I believe we met during the Patternfall 
War; I was decapitating the Duke of Baylesport when you 
fought your way past,stabbing the Lord of Chanticut through 
the left venticle. It's a pleasure to meet you again, Sire."
- Ishmael to Random

"We thought he was just trying to fake his death again, but he 
lived. So I guess not."
- Random, talking about Caine's mishap with fire

// Dear Invaders - the prisoner you want is in this cell. Please 
don't do too much damage to it, it's very expensive. Have a nice 
day. //
- Sign left by the three on the door to Findy's cell

"Well excuse me, I was just trying to keep reality from being 
completely obliterated. I didn't have time to think about the 
metaphysical crap."
- Corwin, reacting with irritation to people's glances after it 
was revealed that his Pattern was behind the alternate 
universe.

"All the evidence points towards House Drider, which is why 
I'm inclined to think it's not them." 
- Ishmael, discussing the spider attacks
"*nod*" - The rest of the Elder Amberites

"I'm King Random of Amber."
"Well, of course you are."
"No, really, I am!"
-Random and Osric


	After a period of rest and study, the three decided to 
carry out their mission for Random. Trumping to Albert's home, 
they set off through shadow to Therin, the realm of King John.

	Disguising themselves as a trade embassy from a 
nonexistant house of Chaos, they quickly got inside the King's 
palace. Learning that another Chaos embassy had already 
arrived and left, this one from Helgram, they secured guest 
quarters and lured in a castle maid. Breaking down her will,  
Rianna instructed her to go to the King's bedchamber and return 
with some hair. After much awkwardness and a few mistakes, 
the maid did.

	Deciding to obtain a sample of Eric, John's supposed 
father, the three trumped to his tomb. Breaking in, they were 
attacked by an Eric-creature apparently set in place to guard 
the tomb. After dispatching it, the real Eric was found and a 
bit of his hair yanked out.

	And then, the sounds of guards were heard at the front of 
the tomb.

	While Rianna went out to fake an explanation, Ishmael 
attempted to open a trump out. No luck; the area was being 
trumpblocked. He attempted to unblock it via his ring, and 
found that someone was opposing him. Using the Palantir, he 
drew upon a frightening amount of psyche and pushed back the 
barrier. Rose immediately opened a trump back to their 
quarters in John's shadow, and they trumped out.

	Meanwhile, at the mouth of the tomb, an annoyed Fiona 
and an irate Julian were trying to figure out who the hell was 
breaking into Eric's tomb. Rianna gave a fairly convincing 
explanation that Fiona didn't buy for a second, and off they 
went to see the King.

	Random just groaned when he heard what had happened, 
and plainitively pointed out that the three could have _asked_.

	Rose and Ishmael destroyed the guest room with a flash 
bomb, and trumped to the genetic facility that they had used 
before. Rianna soon joined them there, and they ran a match 
between John and Eric's hair. Sure enough, the two were 
related.

	Ishmael was highly disturbed to hear that the person 
opposing him in the tomb had been Fiona. He pointed out that 
there were eight more running around, and that this wasn't 
even the 'master' sphere.

	The three trumped Random, and told him of John's 
ancestry. Random thanked them, and Ishmael went off to the 
castle library to do some research. He also arranged to talk to 
Corwin the following morning.

	Next morning, Ishmael discussed the matter of the 'new' 
Amber with Corwin, drawing out details of the creation of 
Corwin's Pattern and the JoJ. Corwin asked him to find a way 
to the 'new' Amber from the Courts of Chaos, which Ishmael 
readily agreed to.

	Rose, meanwhile, was dealing with a quartet of 
fluffbrained dressmakers in preparation for Flora's ball on 
Shadow Earth. She was outfitted in a waffy pink creation, 
which didn't quite look as good on her in demonform.

	The ball commenced, and people mingled. Rianna chatted 
with Jurt, who was in a suspiciously cheerful mood; he'd just 
succeeded in walking the pattern. Rose struck up a 
conversation with Bleys' son Roderick. Ishmael was asked to 
dance by the Lady of House Olympus, a stunningly beautiful 
woman with a jealous and incredibly strong lover called 
Marcus. Ishmael danced and chatted a bit, and then walked over 
to Marcus, downcastedly informed him that he has been unable 
to sway her and that she was madly in love, lucky man - and 
then hightailed it out of there. 

	Julian was still in an incredibly foul mood over the 
breakin, Ish noticed this, smiled benignly, and put a certain dog 
in Amber.

	The party broke up without any riots, and Ishmael 
returned to Chaos. Rianna and Rose spent the night in Shadow 
Earth.

	Ishmael took the Palantir to Suhuy, who gave him more 
information about it and asked to study it. Ishmael agreed, 
handing it and the control glove over to him.

	Rose went windsurfing with Roderick. Rianna wandered 
off in shadow to do some research, and managed to stumble 
into an X-Men shadow. She was promptly collected by Magneto 
and taken to his orbital fortress.

	Ishmael, deciding that it was almost time for the next 
step, trumped Rianna. He stepped throught, cut her loose, 
tossed Magneto a small thermonuclear device with two 
seconds on the timer, and trumped out. They then trumped in 
Rose, and Ish explained what he had learned about the Palantir.

	Dworkin trumped them, telling them that he'd finished 
the device to find his hat with. It looked like a sphere, and 
would roll in the direction of the hat through shadow. When it 
turned a certain shade of purple, the three were to trump him.

	Setting out, they followed the ball on a walking platform. 
As the shadows got more technological, the platform became a 
truck. As they became more dangerous, the truck became an 
APC. Giant flying psychic cockroaches attacked, but were 
beaten off. Soon the sphere reached the right color, and 
Dworkin was trumped in to deal with things. The three trumped 
back to Amber.

	They arrived in the courtyard just as a tiny chihuahua 
walked up to Julian.

	It looked up at him.

	Julian looked down curiously.

	"Yo quiero Prince Eric," commented the chihuahua.

	There was a scream of rage, and the chihuahua was 
punted, yelping, over the wall of Castle Amber and down the 
face of Kolvir.

	Julian screamed that he was going to kill whoever was 
behind it.

	Ishmael smiled benevolently.

Quotes: 

"Who are you?"
"We're the trade embassy from Chaos."
"No-one informed us you were coming!"
"There's a reason for that."
"Oh?"
"We didn't tell anyone."
- The guards and 'Lord Elias'

"So how do we get a match?"
"I have a cunning plan."
"Somehow I'm not surprised."
- Rose and Ishmael

"Go get us some bits of King."
- Rianna to the mind-controled maid.

"Eric's not acting very dead."
"We can remedy that."
- Rose and Ishmael

"You? What about me! I don't know what they do to Lords of 
Chaos who break into the tomb of a recently dead King of 
Amber and yank bits off, but it probably isn't very pleasant!"
- Ishmael

"You could have asked, you know."
"Sorry."
"You REALLY COULD have asked, you know?"
- Random and Rianna

"Would you care to dance?"
"Let me check my appointment book."
- Aphrodite and Ishmael

"That's the trouble with windsurfing."
"Yeah. Taking a trump call kinda splatters you all over a 
mountain."
- Roderick and Rose

"SOMEONE... has sent a dog to do his own work. I sincerely hope 
you had nothing to do with this, because I would hate to 
explain to your parents what your SEVERED, BLOODY HEADS 
WERE DOING ON THEIR DOORSTEPS!"
- Julian

"Is he always like this?"
- Ishmael, afterwards

-----------------------

	Following the 'chat' with Julian, our heroes felt the need 
for some rest and relaxation. As a result, Ishmael decided that 
Rianna was going to throw a party. Invitations were sent out; 
Koa and Gilva of Hendrake, Jurt of Sawall, and Martin, Albert, 
Roderick, Otho, and Theresa were invited. Theresa was unable 
to make it, but the rest all agreed to show.

	Rianna made a quick stop back at her home in shadow. 
Two packages had arrived for her; one containing a trump, 
another a bunch of flowers from a co-worker. The mysterious 
trump showed a forested valley lined with pools, and had on 
the reverse side a crescent moon in a blue square.

	Rianna then tried to develop the ability to use the 
pattern as a lens to examine things with. She had some 
measure of success, embarking on a cross-shadow sail that led 
to her being attacked by a great white shark of disturbing 
reality. After several maritime adventures, she trumped out.

	Ishmael, meanwhile, was preparing the site of the party 
- a high gothic feasting hall in a castle out of a bad horror 
movie. Outside, an army was besigning the place, led by Bishop 
Heiligdeng and his Holy Happy Knights. Angry peasants, waving 
torches and pitchforks, formed an auxillary. Ishmael set things 
so that they would breach the walls around 11, and arrive in 
the main hall around 12.

	The guests arrived. There was much laughter, discussion, 
and drinking; Rianna chatted with Koa, Martin played electric 
guitar, and Ishmael mentioned the pirates that had attacked 
them near the Flaming Tower. Otho mentioned that these were 
the Shalomar Pirates, the same ones that had been troubling 
Amber. Ishmael smiled, seemingly a little drunk, and slipped 
something into Otho's wine.

	Catapult artillery began pummeling the castle, and 
breaches opened in the walls. Several members of the party 
joined in the fight; after a while, realizing that an entire army 
was outside, they decided to retreat. Falling back into the main 
hall (which by this time was merrily ablaze and collapsing) 
everyone trumped out to Rianna's apartment.

	The next morning, Ishmael trumped Dworkin. They had a 
long talk, and Ish learned the location of the four primary 
shadow copies of the Jewel of Judgement. One was in Tir Na 
Nog, another in the royal vaults beneath Castle Amber, another 
in Rebma, and still a fourth in a destroyed copy of Amber "that 
burned". Ish, Rose, and Rianna tried to get into the vaults; 
unfortunately, the best they could manage was to gain access 
to the outer vault. Undiscouraged; they set off through shadow, 
following the instructions Dworkin had given to reaching the 
location of the fourth demijewel - "Ride from Amber until all 
is fire, then turn and ride towards the Amber that burns."

	They arrived in a flaming Arden, neutralizing a Phoenix 
spy bird of a Julian-like guardian. A wall of pattern energy 
was detected via the aid of Rianna's pattern lens; Ishmael 
conjured a uberbadger to dig a tunnel under it.

	As they proceeded up Kolvir, a flaming giant appeared and 
threw a swordlike thing at them. Rianna hit it with a magic 
negation, destroying half of the missile; the remainder hit her 
and nearly knocked her off the stair. Ishmael blasted the giant 
through the head with a trumpgun burst; to his dismay, the 
head reformed. Realizing that the giant was using fire to 
regenerate itself, Ishmael began to conjure a blast of water 
above the creature. Battleaxe the Horse, shifting to human 
form, took Ish's spare crossbow and began laying down 
covering fire.

	Another sword was thrown. Magic negation took care of 
part of it; but Rianna was getting badly bruised. She hit the 
giant with a neural disrupt just as Ishmael unleashed a 
fountain of water. The giant screamed, losing much of its 
mass. Ishmael turned his sword to ice and dashed up the stair. 
Battleaxe shot the giant again, Rianna let loose another neural 
disrupt, and with this help Ish hacked the thing to pieces.

	Wary of more traps the group proceeded into the flaming 
castle, heading towards the Pattern chamber. They found the 
hallway down blocked by a knight in blue armor. Ishmael, 
thinking quickly, quickly drew a trump on the floor of the 
hallway with his dagger, depicting a lake in shadow. He then 
advanced. The knight informed him that none could pass, and 
Ish drew his sword and attacked.

	The knight turned out to be better than him, and Ishmael 
was slowly driven back. As the knight passed over the trump 
sketch, Ishmael activated it, send the knight plummeting 
through into the lake in shadow. Ishmael snapped shut the 
connection, and the three proceeded on.

	They finally came to the door of the pattern chamber. 
Rianna's pattern lens revealed that the key to it was just 
crawling with chaos energy. A duplicate key was made, and the 
door unlocked - when the real key began to explode into a 
demonic chaos creature. The three dashed into the pattern 
chamber and slammed and locked the door.

	There, on the broken, chipped pattern, lay a Jewel of 
Judgement. Rose turned into a hawk and flew to scoop it up, 
while the other dashed to the other end of the pattern and 
trained crossbows on the door. The chaos creature burst 
through, and was riddled by bolts. It kept coming. Rose grabbed 
the demijewel and flew to the others, and all of them trumped 
out to the Lighthouse of Cabra.

	From Cabra, they went to an island fortress out in 
shadow belonging to Ishmael. Rose and Rianna got some rest, 
and Ishmael attuned himself to the demijewel.

	The process of tuning himself accidentally enveloped the 
shadow in an inferno, started to sink the island, and almost 
killed Rose and Rianna. They escaped in time, trumping back in 
to find Ishamel, fast asleep, bobbing on a slab of basalt in the 
middle of a boiling ocean. Trumping out proved difficult, but 
via Rianna's pattern lens they finally made it.

	Ishmael went off to study the demijewel. Rianna enlisted 
Martin and Mandor to help teach her Pattern Disruption, 
figuring she might need it soon.

	Ish gained a good working knowledge of the Fire Jewel, 
and incorporated it as the focusing prism of a Patternlaser. He 
could do some serious damage with this, he happily thought...



Quotes:

"Did you get my package?"
"Yes, but the neighbor's dog ate it."
- Rianna and her suitor

"Arr, we be after the great white whale that ate New York."
"Oh dear, that's where I had been heading."
- Nautical Loon and Rianna

"Hi. Can I have some of your genetic material?"
- Rianna to Koa

"Kill the succubus!"
"I'm not a succubus, I'm a hellmaid!"
- The army and Gilva

"Why are we defending this place anyway?"
"That's a good question. Got me."
- Martin and Ishmael

"SAVE THE BEER!"
- Ishmael

"See, I took this branch of a tree from the border of reality, 
and I carved it into a really sharp wooden spoon, and I carved 
all 523 runes of the pre-Logrus civilization into it in a pattern 
that spelled out 'spoon', and then I imbued it with spoonness, 
and I used the Logrus to connect it to Spoons of Power 
throughout shadow, and then I told it that it was a spoon, and 
then... oh, wait... no, that's not what I did after all."
- Dworkin, telling Ishmael about the item that scooped out the 
Eye of the Serpent

"But how did you get the Serpent to hold still?"
"I got it drunk. You can do anything to anyone if you get them 
drunk enough."
- Ishmael and Dworkin, discussing the removal of the eye of 
the serpent

"The Fire Jewel is being held in an incredibly dangerous place. 
It's certain death to even venture near it. We leave in three 
hours."
"Uh...."
"Don't worry, I have a cunning plan."
- Ishmael and Rianna

"Next time, TELL me before you try to do something like that!"
"Sorry. Had no idea it would almost kill you like that."
- Rianna and Ishmael

Ish's Private Power-Grab Log

	Ishmael, accompanied by Morrigan and Battleaxe, went to 
Tir Na Nog to get the Air Jewel. Entering the ghostly city, he 
found that the location of the Air Jewel was moving. Mounting 
Battleaxe, who shifted into a winged form, he quickly pursued 
it.

	The Air Jewel's reading moved into a palace. Ish swooped 
down towards it, only to see that a dark figure on a bat was 
doing the same... and had a jewellike object on a stick, pointing 
at him. Ish fired a blast from the Patternlaser at him; it was 
met by a beam from the stick Jewel. Pulling out a crossbow 
and firing, Ish was hit by a bullet from his opponent, and both 
fell from their mounts.

	Battered but somewhat cushioned by his armor, Ish fried 
the circling bat with a patternlaser blast and proceeded into 
the palace. He worked his way through a series of halls and 
tunnels until he found a shaft. The dark figure appeared at the 
other end of it, and both fired - Ish lost the front of his armor, 
but the dark figure was blasted to bits. Taking his stick-jewel, 
Ish proceeded along.

	Finally he reached a strange, four-mirrored chamber. 
Entering it, he saw four thrones, with the Air Jewel on a 
pedestal in the middle. Upon on of the thrones, facing him, was 
a woman who identified herself as Sand.

	They talked for a time, verbally sparring a bit. Ishmael 
gained a bit of information on the various Finndo-spawn, and 
on the Palantirs. Sand refused to let him take the Air Jewel, 
and Ishmael acceeded to this - but warned her that some day 
he would have it.

	They parted amiably, Ish tossing her a trump of himself. 
Sand suggested in parting that he tour the Pattern Room of Tir 
Na Nog. 

	He did. Inside, he found Osric - the Osric of this universe 
- guiding King John through walking the Pattern.

	As John finished, Ishmael applauded.

	Osric whirled, startled, a spell of destruction forming on 
his tongue, and Ishmael trumped out to Amber.

	Surprising Otho in the garden, he ran into the castle, 
almost knocking over Bleys (and Bleys' 6-foot-long sandwich). 
Dashing into Random's chambers, Ish informed him of what had 
happened. He then realized that he had forgotten Morrigan and 
Battleaxe.

	The entire family (save Corwin and Benedict) assembled, 
and trumped to Tir Na Nog. Morrigan and Battleaxe were 
battered but alive; but Osric and John had escaped. The residue 
of a JoJlike device's use were found about the site.

	A family conference was held. Afterwards, Ishmael asked 
Random if he could borrow the 'replica of the JoJ' in the vaults 
for a 'religious ceremony'. Random agreed. Unfortunately for 
Ishmael, it turned out not to be the Earth Jewel at all, but 
something entirely different.

	Puzzled and dismayed, Ish trumped to Tybalt, Lord of 
Hendrake, and filled him in on the current situation. He then 
visited Suhuy, and learned that the gem from the vaults was 
somehow linked to the Logrus. He further learned that while 
the Palantir's link to the master Palantir had been severed, 
Suhuy was hoping to relink it to the Logrus.

	The Jewel on a stick turned out to be a Tir Na Nog copy of 
the Fire Jewel.

	Trumping to Dworkin, Ish discovered that the vault Jewel 
was actually the eye of a shapeshift copy of the serpent. If he 
attuned himself to it, he could use it to manipulate the Logrus.

	Further discussion convinced him that Osric had the 
Earth Jewel. This put the presumed Jewelholders as:

	Earth - Osric

	Air - Sand

	Water - Moire or Llewella

	Fire - Ishmael

	Of the four, Ishmael was the only one to lack an intact 
Pattern. Which was needed to gain full mastery of the jewel.

	Ish decided that since no intact Pattern existed, he'd just 
have to remedy that.

	Trumping with Dworkin to the site of a Broken Pattern of 
fire, he walked and repaired it. Then, reaching the center, he 
passed out.

Quotes:

"I am Sand."
"The long lost."
"Well, _I_ always knew where I was."
- Ishmael and Sand's introduction

"You are a curiousity. Most Lords of Chaos of your generation 
would have taken the Logrus by now, unless they felt 
themselves too weak or afraid to attempt it. But you have not."
"I've never been one to go along with the latest trend."
"I'd hardly call the Logrus a trend."
"It is, just a powerful one. Trends come, trends go. Some 
people create new ones. Some people make them die out. 
Myself, I've never been a slave to fashion."
- Sand and Ishmael talk

"I've got good news and bad news, your majesty. The good news 
is that King John just walked the Pattern."
"WHAT? That's supposed to be GOOD?"
"Yes, see, the bad news is that your brother Osric, who is 
supposed to be dead, helped him do it."
"%$#%%%^#$$$!!!!!"
- Ishmael and Random

"Why won't these people just stay dead? Next thing I know 
Brand's going to come crawling out of the Abyss..."
"Well, actually, now that you mention it..."
"HE HAS!?"
"No, just joking."
-Random and Ishmael

"I think I might have to add 'Awakener of the Royal Family of 
Amber' to my calling cards."
-Ishmael, upon the summoning of the entire family, mostly in pajamas.

"Just a minute, my enemy's hostage is trumping me."
- Ishmael

"I think something like the Jewel of Judgement was behind 
this."
"Oh. That's.... oh."
- Fiona and a very upset Ishmael

"I tried to draw the Pattern with it, but it ripped my arm off 
instead."
"I'm glad I didn't try it, then. My arm doesn't come with velcro."
- Dworkin, talking to Ishmael about the Logrus Jewel.

The Session All Hell Broke Loose

	Lots of people woke up in funky places.

	Rianna awoke to find herself in a room of some sort in 
Chaos, in which the Pattern had been used to block it against 
trump. She set about trying to shift shadow out.

	Rose woke up in a swamp, which the sound of hunting 
horns in the distance. Trumps didn't work.

	And Ishmael woke up at the center of the newly-restored 
Fire Pattern, the Fire Jewel missing.

	In a state of mild panic, he tried to use his link to the 
Jewel to look for it. It was somewhere close in shadow, he 
sensed, but also close to another Pattern.

	He spoke to his new Pattern, which responded. It showed 
him what had happened after he finished repairing the Pattern 
- Dworkin was hit over the head by Osric and stuffed in a bag, 
whereupon Osric carefully walked the Pattern and took the Fire 
Jewel from Ishmael. Hastily making a series of trump calls, 
Ish pulled Morrigan through along with several of his enhanced 
enforcers, and set them to guard the new Pattern. Trumping 
Tybalt, he learned that Sawallways was being cut off from 
trump contact, and that some sort of attack was going on 
inside. Suhuy was uncontactable, and Tybalt revealed that the 
Logrus had been sealed off by Suhuy as a precaution. Ishmael 
began to form a plan, and placed the Tir Na Nog edition of the 
Fire Jewel to the surface of the Pattern, charging it with 
Pattern energy...

	Rose, meanwhile, steathily listened as several deformed 
riders approached, members of House Fomori. She learned that 
they were going to hunt her down and kill her, supposedly for 
the death of the Fomori Duke's son.

	Not approving of this concept, she shapeshifted into the 
form of Durk of House Hendrake. Confronting the riders, she 
managed to convince them that 'he' had jsut gotten lost and 
stumbled in to their hunting preserve. After several days of 
searching, the Fomori gave up, and 'Durk' and they rode back to 
the Fomori hunting lodge.

	Trump worked there, and Rose trumped Ishmael.

	Ishmael, who was in a mild frenzy, instructed Rose to 
turn into a feathered serpent. She did, and he brought her 
through. He instructed the Pattern to send them to the pattern 
chamber in the destroyed fire realm of Rebme, where Osric had 
been sensed repairing the Pattern there.

	The two appeared. Osric was walking the Pattern, eyes 
fixed in concentration, using both the Earth and Fire Jewels to 
repair the damage. A tall man who Ish and Rose recognized as 
Finndo stood watching.

	Ishmael pretended to be a messager from John for a few 
seconds as he used his mastery of the Fire Jewel to cause it to 
explode in a semilnuclear fireball. The Rembe Pattern erupted 
as the ball engulfed Osric. Finndo, startled, turned; in that 
instant, Ishmael pulled the Tir Na Nog edition out and blasted 
Finndo with all of the stored Pattern energy. The jewel burst, 
and Finndo was blasted into a wall, dazing him, melting most 
of his front armor, and breaking his right arm. He also 
automaticaly shifted into a fire form to minimize the damage 
form the blast.

	While this happened, Rose flew over the blazing pattern. 
There was no sign of Osric or the Fire Jewel, but the Earth 
Jewel lay on the ground between two of the lines. She began to 
try to swoop down to get it.

	Ishmael began blasting at the dazed Finndo with his twin 
crossbows, cutting off an ear with one bolt. He attempted to 
use his trumpgun as well, only to discover that trumps out 
were being blocked. A very angry Finndo got to his feet and 
began advancing, deflecting bolts with his sword. Ishmael 
frantically backpedaled.

	Rose swooped down, grabbing the Earth Jewel, and flew 
off the Pattern. Ishmael, backed up against a wall, was 
frantically conjuring something; she suspected he would be too 
late. Wincing, Rose grabbed Finndo with Logrus tentacles, and 
began to throw him across the room. A blast of energy from the 
Rebme pattern halted her in mid-throw, blasting her into a 
wall.

	Ishmael finished his conjuration. As the irate, 
fireformed Finndo charged, Ishmael blasted him with a wave of 
fire-extinguisher material. Screaming in agony, Finndo 
stumbled back, reverting to a very mangled human form as he 
did. Ish's crossbows went to work again, cutting off his other 
ear and giving him a shoulder wound. Finndo, enraged and in 
pain, charged. And the swirling form of Osric began to 
materialize in the center of the pattern...

	Rose dizzily got to her non-feet (still being a feathered 
serpent) and attacked Finndo from behind, biting his neck and 
raking at his eyes with forearm talons. As Finndo grabbed Rose 
and smashed her into the ground, Ish aimed carefully and shot a 
crossbow bolt through Finndo's left eye. 

	Finndo fell, screaming, and abruptly vanished. Osric, now 
fully reformed, spat curses at the two and began to invoke 
something. Ishmael blasted at him with both crossbows, but 
flame leaped up to intercept the bolts. Osric leaned back his 
head and laughed maniacally - just in time to get hit by the 
anvil Ish had conjured over him. He dissolved again, and began 
to reform...

	The doorway out of the Pattern room seemed to be 
blocked by some sort of glowing ward. Holding the Earth Jewel 
in from of them, Ish and Rose dashed through it, bracing 
themselves. They appeared over a volcano, and barely managed 
to trump through to Morrigan at Ishmael's Pattern before being 
baked.

	Meanwhile, Rianna had managed to make her way far 
enough out of the room to trump to her father, Mandor. Mandor 
and Despil were fighting for their lives in Sawallways; golden 
statues were running amok, besieging the entire place and 
trying to cut off the routes to the Logrus. Rianna joined in the 
defense, and the Sawall Group waited for the arrival of 
reenforcements. Rianna notified Random of the situation, and 
he dispatched Fiona and Flora to go to the assistance of Sawall 
with troops. 

	Rianna attempted to contact Corwin with Mandor's help. 
They barely got through, and Corwin weakly said that he was 
being held prisoner. They attempted to pull him through, when 
a female voice at Corwin's end attempted to pull _them_ 
through instead. The woman shrugged off Rianna's neural 
disrupt, and to a lesser extent Mandor's death bolt, and so 
Mandor trump-disrupted the connection, noting that they had 
troubles of their own at the moment.

	Amber troops arrived via trump, and Jurt suddenly 
appeared, blinking in and out and tossing bolts of energy into 
the statues while laughing maniacally. The cavalry, such as it 
was, had arrived.

	Rianna trumped Ishmael, who pulled her through.

	Back at the new Pattern, it had informed Ishmael that 
something with Logrus had probed it, and was likely coming. 
Ish got in contact with Random, Tybalt, and Flora and learned 
the following:

	A major sea battle was in progress, as the Shalomar 
Pirates were engaging Amber's fleet. Gerard, Caine, and Albert 
were leading the fight, and were expected to win.

	Julian reported something encroaching on Arden, and was 
dealing with it.

	A flaming bird had landed in Amber, bearing the message, 
"You killed my son, now you're all going to die." Bleys had 
turned pale on seeing it, but professed ignorance of its 
meaning.

	Tybalt was leading an army to the defense of 
Sawallways. Part of it had to turn back as news came from Koa 
that Hendrake was under attack as well by the statue-things.

	Flora had been leading an army of carnivorous trees down 
a black road towards Chaos, but sent them on ahead as she 
came the Ish's Pattern to help. Fiona also arrived, and began 
seeing to the defence of the place.

	Wondering if the message had been from House Fomori, 
Ish trumped their leader, Duke Balor. He said they had not sent 
it, but still wanted Rose dead.

	Ishmael brought an army of two million fire-
enviornment-equipped troops through from Telmar. Fiona 
proceeded to set several Fire Angels loose on the upper levels 
of the castle as guards. She also revealed that the original Fire 
Pattern in Rebme had ben destroyed at the height of the 
Amber-Rebme War by a creature Oberon had built out of an 
entire shadow, and infused with a desire to devour fire 
patterns. The creature had decended upon Rebme and laid it 
waste, while Finndo and Osric were still in it. Oberon then got 
rid of the creature somehow, but Fiona suspected it was still 
about.

	Roderick and Katsura arrived to help with the situation.

	The group, led by Fiona, attempted to trump Dworkin. 
They got through, and found him trapped inside the Master 
Palantir, with the Phoenix holding him in its beak. It seemed 
prepared to attack, when Ishmael stepped forward and asked 
what it's quarrel was. It showed a picture of the past; 
Dworkin, riding the Unicorn, had snuck up behind it and bashed 
it over the head. It woke up, eventually, imprisoned.

	Ishmael played his mind over his memory of Suhuy telling 
him that Finden had imprisoned the Phoenix, and his own 
memory of saying the Phoenix should be freed, and invited the 
beast to check. It did, and Ish made it a bargain - free Dworkin 
to them in exchange for Dworkin's promise to try and release 
it. The bargain was made, and they pulled Dworkin through just 
as someone outside approached the Palantir.

	With Dworkin, they then forced a trump contact through 
to Benedict, who was lying chained in some sort of chaotic 
maze. Ish jumped through, grabbed him, and pulled him back 
through the trump.

	Benedict came around, and related that he had been 
overwhelmed by Lorelei, one of the elder Amberites who had 
left long ago. She had always been a rival of his 'best warrior 
in the family' title, and had jumped him with a small army. 
After killing most of the army, he was overwhelmed.

	They informed him of the situation with Finndo and Osric. 
He said that they were probably seeking revenge for being 
tossed away by trying to wipe out the family.

	Rianna mentioned the woman holding Corwin, who Fiona 
identified as her mother, Clarissa. Asked why she would be 
holding him, Fiona guessed that she held him responsible for 
the death of her other son, Brand. Ishmael put two and two 
together, and surmised that the note was from her.

	Ishmael's Pattern informed him that the Rebme Pattern 
was blocking its attempts to find the Fire Jewel. Determined 
to track it down, and having determined that the Rebme 
Pattern was somehow vital to Osric's plans (indeed, Dworkin 
suspected that Osric was now somehow part of the Rebme 
Pattern, Ish took some blood from Rianna, sent her to the 
shadow genetic facility to clone several pressurized vats of it, 
and fasttimed it. Bringing back several backpack-vats with 
hoses, he announced the plan - to storm Rebme and hose down 
the pattern there.	

Quotes:

"Hello."
"Who are you!?"
"I'm, uh, Durk of Hendrake. Hello."
"What are you doing here?"
"I was out for a walk."
"In our hunting preserve?"
"Yes. I wasn't poaching."	
- Rose and the Fomori

Kelly: At least I got a riding beast.
Mike: You really wanted a Fomori riding beast?
John: My Little Deformed Pony.

"iiiiiiii'lllllll trrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy......"
"Great. Just great. I got the Forrest Gump of Patterns.
- The new Pattern and Ishmael

"Will you just hurry up and pull me through?!"
"Look, I'm standing in the center of a fraggin' Pattern!"
"oh."
- Rose and Ishmael

"Don't worry, if I drop you you'll just explode violently."
- Ishmael to Rose.

Arthur: Okay, um, I'm going to trump Ishmael and Rose...
Mike and Kelly: (screaming) BUSY! BUSY SIGNAL!

"Okay, um, maybe I should help out."
"Yes! Good! Hurry! Oh, damn, they cut my foot off!"
"Your Uncle Despil's having a bad day. Now, if you could get us 
those reenforcements..."
- Rianna, Despil, and Mandor, desperately trying to hold back 
the golden warriors

"DIE! WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Jurt's not usually that powerful, is he."
"I never thought I'd actually ever be _glad_ to see him..."
- Jurt's enterance, and Rianna and Mandor's comments on it

"The Fire Jewel is currently in the possession of a vile, evil 
psychopath intent on destroying Amber to further his own 
twisted ends."
"I'm confused. I though you said you didn't have it anymore?"
- Ishmael and Rose

"Okay. We're going to recover the Fire Jewel. It's being held by 
Osric, the oldest living prince of Amber, and a master of sword 
and spell. He's got it at his Pattern. We're gonna teleport in and 
grab it."
"You're fucking insane."
"Don't worry, I have a cunning plan."
"You always say that!"
- Ishmael and Rose

"So, you think to face me, puny scion of Chaos?"
"HA! You don't frighten me, you pansy! Really! Oh, shit..."
-Finndo and Ishmael square off

"FOOL! I AM A GOD! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH*urk*"
"God needs to look up more."
- Osric and Ishmael

"Right! We need to bring some serious powerhouses here to 
defend the place."
"I'm trumping Flora."
"FLORA?!?"
"Hey, she's Mommy."
- Ishmael and Rose summon help

"I could bring some carnivorous trees with me."
"Carnivorious trees probably wouldn't do very well in a fire 
shadow."
"*I'M NOT GOING IN THERE!*"
- Flora, Rose, and a Carnivorous Tree

"Er, ah, great-grandfather.... you didn't get along too well with 
Finndo, did you?"
"He was my instructor in arms as a child. He taught me most of 
what I knew in my younger days."
"Oh, er, hahah, see..."
- Ishmael explaining Rose and his little fight with Finndo to 
Benedict

Showdown at Rembe, Breakfast at Brand's

	The Earth Jewel recovered and their allies assembled, 
the Four Equestrians of the Apocalypse decided to show Osric 
and Finndo who the REAL experts in gratutious destruction 
were.

	Armies were dispatched by Ishmael to attack Therin and 
Rebme via Arden. Roderick commanded the Therin invasion, 
while Benedict and Flora led the armies against the forces in 
Rembe, presumably under the command of Finndo.

	As the armies were sent off, Fiona, Dworkin, Ishmael, 
Rianna, Rose, and Katsura attempted to force a trump contact 
into the Rembe Pattern chamber. No luck; the combined weight 
of Osric, the Rembe Pattern, and a Palantir - perhaps the 
master one - combined to foil the breakthrough attempt.

	Ish quickly sketched a trump of the hallway outside the 
Rebme Pattern chamber. Opening it, they were confronted by 
wall-to-wall Fire Demons, and quickly closed it. Trumping to 
Rebma along with an assault force of Hendrake Fire Demons 
and Katsura's monks, they trumped into the hallway along with 
a tidal wave of Rebma seawater which destroyed the waiting 
defenders. Blasting away the ward on the Pattern chamber 
door, they rushed in.

	Osric was waiting for them at the center of the Pattern, 
laughing maniacally. Between him and the four stood a horde of 
golden warriors.

	Katsura vaulted over the warriors, taking a slight wound 
as he did. Rianna trumped in Jurt, who was a energy-laden 
madman at the time. Rose began to fly over the melee towards 
the Pattern, while Ishmael caused the Fire Jewel in Osric's 
hands to erupt in a small gout of flame, rocking Osric a bit.

	Jurt began tossing around blasts of energy like the loon 
he was, blasting golden warriors to powder left and right. 
Rianna alternated neural disrupts on Osric with trying to avoid 
being skewered. Ishmael and Katsura advanced on the Pattern, 
with Rose closing in from the air.

	Osric unleashed a tremendous shower of lightning, 
blasting everyone in the room. Ishmael was tossed back, his 
shield melting to slag. Katsura was a bit charred, but still 
standing. Rianna magic-negated the bolts heading for her, and 
Rose was caught full-force, automatically converting to water 
and splashing to the ground. Katsura and Rose's backpacks of 
blood ruptured from the blast.

	Snarling, Jurt hurled a blast at Osric. Osric met it with 
one of his own, and the two energies dueled, with Osric 
beginning to push Jurt's blast back.

	Rose attempted to expel the blood in her out onto the 
Pattern. She did, blotting out a good chunk of it. Unfortunately, 
a bit of her substance was mixed in with it, and she ignited.

	Charging through the blazing Rose, Rianna turned her hose 
on the Pattern. Ishmael did the same, closing in from another 
side, while Katsura threw a magic negation at Osric to give 
Jurt a hand.

	Osric whipped his bolt around to blast Ishmael, allowing 
himself to take a hit from Jurt. Ishmael hurriedly held up a 
trump of John and opened it seconds before the bolt hit - it 
went through, blasting John across the Therinian countryside. 
Ishmael was knocked backwards by the rest of it, his armor 
charring away.

	Blasted by Jurt, Osric semidissolved and began to slowly 
reform. Ishmael threw his backpack, sending it smashing into 
the rearward part of the Pattern. Blood fountained out, blotting 
out another huge portion. Rianna advanced further, hose 
spraying.

	A deformed Osric reformed at the Pattern's center. 
Katsura lunged at him, and was easily disarmed and sent 
reeling. Osric was about to kill him when Rianna hosed him and 
the Pattern's center down with blood.

	Osric screamed, and a wave of fire exploded outward, 
blasting everyone into unconsiousness.

	Ishmael woke up in a dark void between shadow, falling. 
Using his ring and a bit of his shirt, he quickly drew a trump 
sketch of Fiona and trumped her. She pulled him through to the 
Ember Pattern.

	There, she informed him that three months had passed. 
Rebme had been utterly annialated; Benedict, Flora, and a few 
troops had managed to escape. Finndo's condition was unknown. 
John had been captured, and was now in the dungeons beneath 
Castle Amber. And a giant Logrus-using squid formed out of an 
entire shadow was coming to destory the Ember Pattern - the 
same beast Oberon had conjured to get rid of the Rebme one.

	Ish scowled, and trumped Rose.

	Rose had woken up inside a glacier with a large white 
dragon. Climbing out, she discovered that she was stuck in 
some sort of ice world - and, worse, was unsure of exactly 
who she was. A lot of jumbled memories were in her.

	Ishmael trumped her, and pulled her through. The 
situation was explained, and an effort was made to trump 
Rianna and Katsura. Those two couldn't be reached, and Ishmael 
and Rose trumped to Amber to search Brand's chambers for his 
Patternblade.

	They found his notes, and a hat, and a chest with an odd 
pattern-made lock on it.

	Ishmael was just peeking under the bed when two people 
suddenly appeared in the room...

	Meanwhile, Rianna and Katsura appeared in a maze of 
tunnels. Wandering around, they ran afoul of the Machin Shin, 
the Black Wind. It chased them for some time, finally being 
evaded when they escaped through a door out of the Ways.

	Ishmael saw that the two - a woman and a man - were 
the same ones pictured with Brand in a tapestry on the wall, 
and appeared to be his wife and child. Acting unsurprised, he 
attempted to pass himself off as 'Manfred', Brand's faithful 
manservant. When a suspicious Jasra (the wife) tried to prode 
Ish's mind with a spell, he used High Compelling to create a 
false memory of himself as Brand's manservant.

	Guessing that he might need backup, he trumped Rianna 
again. She answered, and he pulled her and Katsura through, 
introducing her as the daughter of Brand. Then, seeing that they 
were distracted and that Jasra wouldn't be fooled long by the 
memory, he aimed a swing at Luke (the son) with Dicer.

	Luke parried with Werewindle, cutting Dicer in half. 
Ishmael eeped.

	A melee broke out, with Neural disrupts hitting Jasra and 
Luke. Ishmael leaped backwards, firing a crossbow bolt at 
Jasra, just as Katsura shocked her with his sword and threw it 
at her, stabbing her through the stomach. Ishmael's bolt hit 
seconds later, and she screamed and vanished in a flash of 
light.

	Enraged, Luke slashed Rianna and leaped at Ishmael, 
sword raised for a killing blow. Katsura distracted him, taking 
a nasty wound in return, and Ishmael shot a bolt into him and 
blasted him with the trumpgun. Luke vanished in a flash of 
light just as Rose arrived from the bathroom.

	After binding Katsura and Rianna's wounds, they 
stumbled out of Brand's quarters. There was still a lot to be 
done.

Quotes:

Mike: Okay, Dworkin, Fiona, and the rest of us are going to join 
together, stare at the trump, and...
John: And form Voltron!

"Not to worry. We beat them before with only me and Rose, and 
look at the force we've got here! How hard can it be?"
"We're all going to die."
-Ishmael and Rianna, discussing the invasion

"AVON CALLING!"
"YOUR PIZZA'S HERE!"
- Battle cries from the four upon breaking into the Pattern Chamber

"I HAVE THE POWER! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"As someone said, I never thought I'd ever actually be glad to 
see Jurt with stupid amounts of power..."
- Jurt's blasting spree, and Ishmael's comment on him

Arthur: I charge through the flaming puddle of Rose.

Kelly: I just hope I live through this.
Mike: You're a puddle of burning logrus-charged water in the 
middle of an exploding Pattern chamber of fire. It's been nice 
knowing you.
Kelly: Well, hey, a bit of me might survive. Just get an 
eyedropper.
Mike: We'll drop you into a lake near the Logrus. Sort of a Chaos 
burn ward.

John: In the distance, a white dragon is chasing two cavemen 
across an ice floe.
Kelly: I use the Logrus to grab some clothing.
John: In the distance, a white dragon is chasing two naked 
cavemen across an ice floe. Not their day. You have some hide 
clothing, now.

"What happened?"
"You were caught in an exploding Pattern that wiped out the 
shadow you were in, killed Osric, possibly killed Finndo, and 
lost the Fire Jewel. But that's okay, because now you're here at 
the Fire Pattern, where a giant logrus-using squid made out of 
an entire shadow is about to attack and kill us all."
"..."
"But that's okay, because I have a cunning plan."
"Now THAT I remember! Look what happened with the last one!"
"Hey! It worked, didn't it!"
- Rose and Ishmael, reunited.

"Is something wrong?"
"No, Brand's wife and son just dropped in for a chat. 
Everything's peachy."
- A Castle Amber maid and Ishmael.

"You should have killed me."
-Rose to Smaug?

Family Feud - The Squid Gumi vs the McFinndos

	Katsura and Rose took a side jaunt. Ishmael wandered off 
to indulge in a bit of fast-time power mongering, augmenting 
his ring and weapons.

	Assembling back at Castle Amber, Rose, Ishmael, and 
Rianna used their combined psychic energies to dominate the 
mind inside the Logrus Jewel. They planned to use the Jewel's 
power to mold shadow in order to stop the Squid from 
destroying the Ember Pattern. They also trumped Fiona, picking 
up a Pattern-energy bomb and an assortment of not-quite-
patternblades.

	Ishmael conjured up a series of spy fish, which he 
instructed to swin down the gullet of the Squid while the three 
watched from afar. The fish did, and after some observation 
they steered one of them into a canal of the lympathic system.

	Trumping in, they began to use the Logrus Jewel to 
reprogram the Squid's neural network. It partially resisted, and 
during the process a white blood cell appeared. Ishmael shot it, 
and he and Rose shapeshifted into white blood cells 
themselves to avoid future trouble. Rianna was enveloped by 
Rose to ensure her safety.

	Reaching a stalemate with the mental struggle, Rianna 
and Rose used the Logrus to pull themselves next to the main 
ganglia. As they focused their efforts there, Ishmael kicked in 
the shadow-editing powers of his ring, opening a 'second front'. 
The combined attempt overwhelmed the squid, which was 
quickly dubbed Fido.

	The three rewrote Fido's imperitives to A) kill Finndo and 
B) defend the Ember Pattern. 

	At about this time, a group of Chaosians belonging to 
House Alar appeared via Logrus tendrils, and proceeded to try 
to reprogram Fido to attack Amber. Rose summoned up a gang 
of white blood cells, and Ishmael shot their leader with the 
Patterblaster and ordered the remaining ones to depart. They 
did, and Ishmael reported the incident to Tybalt. 

	Ishmael and Rianna built a bridge next to the main 
ganglia, hooking it up to Fido's nervous system. An interior eye 
was formed to enable Fido to utilize trumps, and various 
defense systems were set into place.

	At about this point, Ishmael attempted to use his link to 
the Fire Jewel to find it. He ran straight into the mind of 
Finndo, and only automatic mental shields allowed him to 
break contact in time.

	The three decided that it was time to take Finndo down.

	Trumping most of the younger generation, they had soon 
assembled Albert, Roderick, Otho, and Gilva. Fiona arrived as 
well to conduct defensive operations from the bridge.

	Ishmael created a shadow-seeking flea, which he then 
sent through shadow towards Finndo. The flea's visual 
perceptions were relayed back to the viewscreen on the bridge.

	Before long, a flaming giant started to attempt to 
intercept it. The flea had reached the guarded shadow used by 
Finndo as his base of operations.

	Quickly sketching a trump, Ishmael inserted it into the 
trump-warp slot and in trumped Fido, right on top of the giant. 
Splat. The flea darted down into the valley below, where an 
army of fire warriors was racing to attack the intruder squid.

	Fido's logrus tentacles easily destroyed the first wave of 
attackers. The flea raced into a building in the center of the 
camp, under a door - and was abruptly destroyed. Another 
sketch was made, and Fido appeared right in front of the 
building, immediately ripping it to shreds.

	Inside, next to a broken pattern, was Finndo and a 
collection of his offspring. A Julian-wannabe stood by a 
Gerard-wannabe, an older version of Findy stood by another 
woman, and a man with a Palantir and four gems orbiting his 
head seemed the most troubling of all.

	As Fido flailed away, Rose shapeshifted into a fire 
warrior and pulled herself to outside the squid with the 
Logrus. She began to angle around the mostly squahed army.

	Ishmael shapeshifted into Findy, and with Otho, Roderick, 
and Albert teleported via spell into the middle of the 
McFinndos. For a brief few moments they pretended to be 
reenforcements, and then they attacked wholesale.

	Ishmael blasted at Palantir Boy with his weapon. The 
gems shot out a blast to block it, and also blasted a thrown 
explosive from Roderick and Albert as he leaped to attack. 
Otho, gallant fellow that he is, threw a pair of daggers at the 
Findy-lookalike, hitting her in the forehead.

	Finndo vanished, only to suddenly reappear on the bridge. 
He swung at a very surprised Fiona, severing her upper arm 
before she could escape. Rianna, the only one left on the bridge, 
hit the big red button to flood the bridge with white blood 
cells and a Fighting Devil conjured up earlier.

	Albert was down for the count. Otho was tossing more 
daggers as the wounded Findy-lookalike trumped out. Palantir 
Boy was mixing an attempted mental takeover of the squid 
with fending off Ishmael, who coverted his weapon into a 
pattern lightsabre and was advancing, parrying the gem blasts. 
Roderick was being pinned down bu the other McFinndo woman. 

	Rose angled up next to the Gerard wannabe, grabbed him, 
and pulled them both through shadow via the logrus into a 
ocean three miles down. As he attempted to swin upwards, she 
stabbed him repeatedly with an enchanted dagger and used the 
logrus to bring sharks into the area. When he tried to grab her, 
she simply turned to water, reformed part of her elsewhere, 
and stabbed him again. Before long he was knocked out and near 
death, and she trumped both of them to Flora, who bound him 
and took him into custody. Rose used the logrus to return to 
fthe fight.

	Onthe bridge, Finndo was turning the white blood cells 
and the Fighting Devil into hamburger; however, enough time 
was bought for Rianna to trump Bleys and bing him through. A 
masterful sword duel commenced, and Rianna hurriedly 
trumped Gerard. Coming through, he tackled Finndo, who 
stabbed him through the chest. Bleys blasted him with a spell, 
and Rianna pulled Caine through. Caine, oddly enough, brought a 
crossbow and special arrows...

	Outside, Gilva swooped down, wounding Palantir Boy. He 
turned and blasted her away, allowing Ish to blow his left arm 
off with the patternblaster. Howling, he blasted at Ishmael 
with all four gems, just as Rianna exited the squid and Rose 
reappeared. As Ishmael was flung back by the force of the 
blast, Rose slashed down with her sword, nearly severing the 
arm holding the Palantir. It fell from his hand, he screamed, 
and exploded in a burst of energy. The Palantir began to roll 
towards the remaining McFinndo woman, but Rianna neural-
disrupted her and grabbed it, as Roderick engaged her in 
combat. Outmatched, she retreated via sorcery.

	The three trumped to the bridge. Bleys was feverishly 
trying to bandage the huge hole in Gerard; Ishmael slipped his 
ring on Gerard's finger and activated the regeneration 
properties in it. Caine, a smirk on his face, was posing over 
Finndo's unconsious body and carving a second notch into the 
grip of his crossbow.

	The day won, the three trumped Random to inform him of 
the victory over the McFinndos.



Quotes:
"We're the Amber version of HIV."
- Ishmael on the three's white blood cell disguise

John: Okay, you've got your little FleaCam in one corner of the 
screen.
Kelly: We should put this live on the web, too. www.fleacam.com

"Hi, I just wanted to... Ishmael? Is that you?"
"Um. It's a chaos thing."
"Oh. Anyway, you're all invited to my party on Saturday. Please 
don't come like that."
- Flora and Ishmael the White Blood Cell

"Oi, Gilva, yer gonna love this. We get to kill an Elder Amberite, 
and Random will actually thank us for doing it!"
- Ishmael

John: Rianna, you have about 3 seconds before you become this 
guy's psychic butt-toy.
Arthur: Doh, that's not good.

"Fingon - I am your father! Join me, and together we shall rule 
the galaxy as father and son!"
- Darth Ishmael, advancing on Palantir Boy

"Mommy, look what I brought home!"
- Rose, delivering the Gerard-wannabe McFinndo to Flora