Yo Quiero Prince Eric

	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