Unicorn No Seishi Campaign Timeline

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What is the true nature of time? In shadow, time can be molded like clay by those who possess the blood of Amber. A million years can pass in a second of the True City's time. Indeed, this is how some shadows can claim millions, or even billions of years of history, despite the fact that not even a millenia and a half has passed since the Pattern was drawn. Some shadows have independent timelines, while others drag their neighbors along with them into sync. Golden Circle shadows usually quickly synchronize with Amber time, though there are a handful of exceptions. And the timeflow of Amber itself cannot be changed, except perhaps by Fuyutsuki or the Unicorn. And if they did change that flow...how would we know? And thus, here in Amber, we measure all time by the clocks of the One True City. But then, almost all men make their home shadow the measure of all things.

An excerpt from Thoughts on the Nature of Reality, by Princess Juri, daughter of King Gendo I of Amber, and Queen Haruka of Harad.

The Timeline:

Pre-Week 1

Day -18

Lucien is found by Ambassador Arimi, daughter of Moire, in an Arthurian shadow. They begin shadowwalking back to Amber.

Day -17

Beowulf boards the AAF Arden in Amber

Day -3

Kanna boards the AAF Arden in Cathay

Day -1

Lucien meets Cousin Hiko in Arden as they pass through it.

Week 1 (March 22-28):

Day 1

Today is the Spring Equinox, the Festival of Greening.
Kanna and Beowulf encounter each other on the AAF Arden. Beowulf starts to make a sale of some silver Sidar-rune covered burial urns to Lord Kahn of Westb'ryport, but gets interrupted by Egyptian Nile Empire cultists who want the urns. Kanna and Beowulf fight off and capture the cultists, but in the process one of the urns is stolen and one of the cultists escape via magic (though Beowulf manages to capture the ring used by the man). A group of card players/artifact smugglers are also apprehended by Kahn's flunkies. Beowulf and Khan make the sale of the remaining two urns, and then Kahn and his men depart.
Kanna and Beowulf go to interrogate the captured smugglers. As it turns out, they were waiting for Renard to show to buy some Rebman Sacrifical Daggers from him, but decided to try and nick the silver urn instead (they were also playing with cards from the City of Brass, which is odd as they don't tend to import those sorts of things). Further questioning is interrupted by a Bloc Rebmaquois terrorist, and Kanna has Gabrielle trump the artifact smugglers back to Ember for later questioning. A steward gets turned into a frog by the terrorist, and then the gasbag of the zeppelin is detonated (fortunately, since the gasbag is filled with Ember Helium, the AAF Arden does not explode, just begins to plummet.). Beowulf produces a replacement zeppelin from his bag, and Kanna has Gaby trump the passengers and crew to the replacement. The Bloc Rebmaquois terrorists escape via hangglider to the ocean. Kanna and Beowulf do one last pass through the AAF Arden, and recover a Rebman sacrificial dagger, an Egyptian Obelisk made with some unknown power, and a card left by Renard le Fox in the purloined ship's safe. They grab the items and head to the Ajax. The AAF Arden hits the ocean and gets eaten by a whale (taking the captured Egyptians with it). The group continues to fly for the Cape.
Moriya, Jacqueline, Motoko, and Thoric attend the evening spring equinox festivities in Lipun's capital. Jacqueline participates in a goldfish-catching game, and wins 6 goldfish. The group makes a wish on a shooting star. They buy some seafood and tea from a nearby food stand, and endure the stand-owner's singing. After their meal, they go to attend a kabuki performance (about a foolish foreign lord who comes to Lipun and makes a fool of himself), which is also being attended by Lord Keiichi and his family and retainers.
Thoric, in the process of trying to go to the bathroom, ends up stumbling forward and getting tangled up with Jacqueline and various other audience members. Ninjas attack, but given the movements of the Amberites there, they're not hurt. Motoko defends Lord Keiichi from the assault, as does Moriya. Much chaos ensues, but most of the ninjas and crossbow-men are taken out by Moriya, Matoko, and the firey disco ball of Snoop Mo G'. Motoko uses her magical powers to extract the truth of what had happened from one of the captive ninja -- that they were sent by Lord Takeo and Lord Hayama (former allies of the Shogun) to kill Lord Keiichi for being a traitor to Lipun (for breeding with foreigners and producing halfbreeds, etc.). Moriya and Thoric help rescue survivors. Shizumaru is trumped in and informed of the situation. The group heads off for the night, no longer in the mood for the festival.
First night of the full moon

Day 2

Kanna and Beowulf trade stories on the way to Westb'ryport. Kanna learns about Loompaland, and tries a Wonka Bar. She pronounces it to be very good.
Jacqui, Moriya, Michelle, and Thoric try to play cards. A hunting horror shows up to pie Nausicaa, but gets beat up, though Jacqui trashes Thoric's room in the process.
Second Night of the full Moon

Day 3

Kanna and Beowulf land at Cape Westb'ryport. Beowulf stuffs the Ajax back in, and then they go shopping. Beowulf buys some spices for Nanami, and Kanna buys some mint tea for herself. They then visit a figurine store, and buy a mini-discworld for Mutsumi and a ship similar to the Fireshark, Kozue's flagship, as gifts. Kanna and Beowulf drop hints about le Fox to the store owner, who doesn't know who they're talking about (thereby indicating that rumors of his existance hadn't gotten there yet). The two trump back to Amber Castle.
Kanna and Beowulf encounter Mutsumi and head to her rooms. Beowulf gives Mutsumi the mini-discworld figurine, while Kanna trumps Mia to analyze the 'For Women Only' spice that Beowulf ended up being given. Kanna, Beowulf, and Mutsumi discuss the painting she's working on, which is based on a book of Therin horror stories that Thoric favors. Further discussion is interrupted by a chase scene involving Tama-Chan, Snickers, Mitsumi in fox-form, and Shinobu Major's foxhounds. Kanna and Beowulf manage to defuse the situation.
Kanna and Beowulf go to see Nanami at City Hall about the artifacts they recovered. Nanami agrees to analyze the obelisk later, and reports that the ring is effectively a spell-rack for others to use. The dagger is indeed a Rebman Sacrifical dagger with an extra slot for storing a spell. In exchange for the analysis, Beowulf and Kanna agree to sink a KTC ship smuggling opium before it can reach Amber that night, and are given a folder with information about the ship.
Kanna trumps off to Shalomar Naval Base to try and get in touch with Kozue.
Beowulf goes to talk with his mother, Wakaba, who offers to fill the ring with spells for him to use. He also finds out that Lily's looking for him, and heads to the library to find her. Lily and Anna the assistant librarian are researching a fortune told to Lord Percy, the master of the hunt. Beowulf and Lily are capable of decoding that it likely involves Chaos and places in Shadow in some fashion, though why -Percy- got it is beyond them. Beowulf and Lily agree to have dinner in one of the possible shadows before returning to help Kanna. Beowulf also does some research on Egyptian cults, and manages to narrow down the possibilities to six within short shadowwalking distance to Cape Westb'ryport. Mitsumi uses a spell and copies of the runes from the urns to construct a map of some form of temple related to a dragon.
Kanna waits in line to see Aunt Kozue, and writes in her diary while waiting. She finally sees Kozue, gives her the ship as a gift, and then talks with her a while about her recent adventures. The fact that Renard was planning to sell Rebman Sacrifical Daggers, added to the Bloc Rebmaquois attack, suggests that he either stole them from one of the Rebman exile groups, or that he might have robbed Bloc Rebmaquois directly. Kanna thanks Kozue for the info after getting some more names to contact, and heads back to Amber.
Kanna encounters Beowulf and a recently arrived Lian. Beowulf tells Kanna and Lian about the little fortune told to Percy, which sets off alarm bells for Kanna, given parts match up TOO well to the prophesy she received from Yig. The three trump up to Kanna's rooms in Ember, and she shows them her transcription of the prophesy, and then begin discussing what it means in its various forms. Gabrielle adds her two cents to it, but this brings up some concern from Bey and Kanna, given that she spoke without knowing she was doing it. While this is not an unknown behaviour for Gabrielle (given her ties to the Fire Pattern), it's still worrisome. The prophesy is worked through, more lines of inquiry are established, and the group starts turning their attentions towards the KTC raid that night.
Beowulf and Lily head to Talislanta, a mobius shadow. The two visit a curio shop and buy some stuff, while talking about other places they've visited. They go swimming at the Inverted Lake, and while they do so a street urchin tries to steal their stuff, in the process activating one of Lily's trumps to Bizarro World. Lily teleports them into Bey's bag, and they make more preparations while in fast-time. [TBC]
Kanna talks with her father, the Red Knight, on the roof of Castle Ember about various things. The Red Knight asks about Kanna's progress with hunting down the Fox, and she fills him in. Talk turns to Bloc Rebmaquois for a bit, and then Kanna expresses her fears about what's to come vis. the Outsiders. The Red Knight reassures her that they'll be able to fight them off (as has been done before), and that Gabrielle's odd behaviour during the hash session was due to her ties to the Fire Pattern (since the Patterns were partially made to help keep out the Outsiders, and therefore have knowledge Gabrielle doesn't). Kanna throws out a few ideas of what she's going to do about it at the moment -- watching and waiting, and informing key people. The Red Knight asks how Sumire is doing, and Kanna relates the story of the Wet-T-Shirt incident. Her mood lightened, Kanna returns to Amber after giving her father a quick kiss on the cheek and a hug.
Lian talks with Fuyutsuki, and encounters him running a wish-fulfillment scenario for his Horatio action figure (allowing him to run over the Roderick action figure, accompanied by the Juri of Avalon action figure.) She asks him for texts on the Outsiders, but unfortunately said books have been killed, joined the enemy, or sold. Fuyutsuki also confirms the Melkor had created the Lion Spikards that Annadil used. Lian gets more information on the Spoon, Knife, and Fork, and history and uses for them. Fuyutsuki also asks Lian if she's been nailed to a big metal crucifix yet, which she hasn't but the thought unnerves her.
Kanna trumps into the Castle Amber Courtyard just as Lucien, Arimi, and Kano arrive. They exchange introductions, and then head up to King Tylor's suites to make formal presentation to the king. Kanna makes an appointment to talk with Arimi the following day. They interrupt one of Tylor's Virtual Whack-an-Outsider sessions, and then sit and talk. Lucien petitions to walk the Pattern the following day, and Tylor gives his approval. They then start to talk about the family.
Lucien meets with Miki, Madoka, Mutsumi, and briefly joins in their music session before introducing himself. Mutsumi trumps Kozue and brings her through. He describes a bit of what he's been through, and his intentions to walk the Pattern and claim his birthrights, the DemiJewel of Water and Greyswandir. Miki analyzes the ring that Lucien got from the Rhinemaidens, and determines that it's a Pattern Key that allows access to a shadow that would normally be locked. Miki gives his advice of how to walk the Pattern. Lucien arranges to get a deck of Trumps from Miki and Mutsumi the following day.
Beowulf meets with Kanna at Tylor's after he breifly interrupts their shared game of Virtual Whack-an-Outsider. Beowulf discusses some of the recent events, and the concerns about various forces now likely wanting to hunt down the spikard that the vase-map would lead to (the Master, Lord Khan, themselves...) Beowulf gets approval from Tylor to search for it, and makes plans to meet with Anthy and see somebody at Panopticon the following day about the sidar runes involved with the map. Beowulf and Kanna play one last round of VWAO before heading off to see Lian.
Beowulf, Kanna, and Lian re-rendevous, and prepare to sink the KTC ship. They ride off to a small cove to the north of Amber, Beowulf deploys the sub, and then the three sail north underwater to intercept the KTC ship.
[Jaquie walks water pattern, somehow? Under the influence of 'Taylor', the possible 'Lion's Heir'.]
Lucien heads to bed in Castle Amber, and dreams of various things (including being crucified on a huge black cross covered with golden tracery).
third night of the full moon.

Day 4

Beowulf, Kanna, and Lucien intercept the Kashmir Trading Collective ship. Long range scans reveal cold iron blocking magic scries, so they decide to disguise themselves and board. They ascend to the top of the ship's cabin, leaving the sub on autopilot, and Beowulf moves to investigate the ship's hold. However, this (and the dropping of their disguises as three of the four Beatles) alerts the Siamese fighting monks onboard of the people trying to board the ship. Kanna, Beowulf, and Lian engage in an extended fight scene against the monks. Meanwhile, the wizard in the cabin (which nobody got around to checking, even though Lian suggested it) manages to sink Beowulf's sub, transform the carried opium into sugar, and then teleports out before his time-delayed Akira spell goes off. Beowulf, Lian, and Kanna escape via Gabrielle Trump Gate just as the ship explodes and is overcome by a massive wave.
Lucien dreams of a meeting between 'Taylor' and Derith within the Water Pattern chamber, and then fights off a horde of Deep Ones when they break through. Although he manages to save Taylor, Derith is killed by the flawed pattern blade Taylor carried wielded by a Deep One, and the Pattern shatters. He retrieves the Jewel of Judgement from Derith's skull, and it burrows into his left eye socket. Drake appears, weilding Werewindle and Magnus the Unseen, and as he's about to kill Lucien, the dream ends.
Lucien wakes, writes down the details of his dream, and goes back to sleep.
[2 am -- Jaquie's Morgenstern Manifestation shatters due to Water Pattern Energy conflicting with Flawed Fire Pattern Energy, feedbacking on Morgenstern in the process, taking him temporarily offline and frying a good portion of his memory. Jaquie vanishes. The True Jewel of Judgement gets catapulted out of the Vortex, taking Jacqui with it.]
Beowulf, Kanna, and Lian are trumped to the observatory of the Lighthouse of Cabra, where Nagisa is watching the disturbance over Rebma. This puts them in a prime location to watch the Jewel of Judgement launch itself out of the Vortex (taking Jacqui with it), and the beginning dissipation of the Shadow Storms. Beowulf, Kanna, and Lian accept Nagisa's hospitality for the night.
[The Rebma Vortex vanishes, as well as the Shadow Storms above it. Rebma returns to the TAMD universe, albeit massively damaged.]
Lucien wakes up again, and goes to breakfast, where he meets Mutsumi and Keitaro. He eats, and gets a trump deck from Mutsumi, and examines the cards, recognizing his father, Drake, and King Tylor, who looks like the flying man/Taylor encountered in the vision. After breakfast, he seeks out Yuriko to tell her about his dream. Vash mentions he may have seen the unknown man at Bloody Annadil's.
Beowulf and Kanna wake up. Lian has already departed, and Nagisa has gone to investigate the return of Rebma. Beowulf and Kanna talk about what they've recently experienced, discuss their plans for the day, and prepare to face the music. Kanna gets a confirmation on Beowulf's "For Women Only" spice -- it was indeed an aphrodesiac. They trump back to Amber and head for Nanami's office in City Hall.
Beowulf and Kanna meet with Nanami. Nanami is not particularly pleased with the full results of their attempt to sink the KTC ship... the 1 Comet price on their heads in Siam and Sind, as well as the diplomatic protests of the KTC and Siamese government being major factors. They get advice from Nanami to get out of Amber for a while so that she can do damage control. Kanna learns of another Renard le Fox theft -- this time of Sindhi statuettes from the owner of the KTC, which may have turned up in Begma in House Winfri. Beowulf gets advice and information on the various types of spikards from Nanami. Nanami also gives Beowulf a small obelisk that will allow him to track the energies given off by the Construct-Manifestation-Monlith Kanna and Beowulf had retrieved earlier. The two depart and split up, after agreeing to relay information from Lian to the others, and to trump-call in the evening if not heard from. Kanna gets Gabrielle to make a trump of Lian for Beowulf.
Lucien walks the Metal Pattern. Once he finishes, he has the Pattern teleport him to where he can find allies and information to begin his quest for Greyswandir.
Lucien finds himself in a library. He makes the aquaintence of Astinus, the head librarian, and then begins his research.
[Nagisa, Mikage, and Nausicaa investigate the damage caused to Rebma, and are able to meet with Moire long enough before she dies to learn a few things of what happened.]
Beowulf encounters Thoric, and tries to convince him to come along to CAFAM and the later expedition for the spikard, and fails. He meets up with Mitsune and Lily, who then go to see Queen Anthy (and encounter Mutsumi) to interpret the Sidar runes from Beowulf's spikard map. She tells him more about the Dragon Spikards. Beowulf, Mitsune, Lily, and Mutsumi head for CAFAM's.
Lian sets out for the Infinite Library.
Moriya hears of Jacquie's dissapearance, and joins up with Shaft to begin investigations. They rendevous with Yumi, who informs them of some of the events that night, and then they head down to the docks to get a boat (where they see that the Shadow Storms are gone.) Yumi, Utena, and Wakaba join them, and they sail off to investigate.
Nausicaa's group reaches the Water Pattern chamber, where they find the remains of Derith of Rebma, a shattered flawed pattern blade, and scratched into the ground "Taylor" and "Leviathan". The Water Pattern itself is effectively shattered and destroyed. Moriya's group catches up with them, and they investigate the room some more, but Wakaba is unable to scry to see what happened at the moment of detonation/destruction.
A group of Bloc Rebmaquois terrorists gets their hands on Gaerthos, the Ring of Tides, and start to seal Rebma away under a dome of ice. The group goes up to confront them and tries to fight off the summoned sharks and whales led by Dolphin/"Shark" (?) to some effect, but they decide to depart given the Bloc leader has the spikard and they're currently in its primary element. Shaft, Utena, Wakaba, Yumi, and Moriya get another ship from the harbor to try and find Jacqueline, while Nagisa, Mikage, and Nausicaa head back to Castle Amber to inform Tylor about Moire's death and to give Nausicaa some rest, while she rambles about "Taylor" being the "Lion's Heir".
Beowulf's group reach CAFAM's, and learn of a -spikard- being sold : Tirthos, the Ring of Storms, a Lion Spikard. They head into, buy paints and books, and then fertilizer. Bamboo fishing rods are bought, and they buy lunch. Along the way to the ring aisles, among the food isles, they defuse a mermaid riot protesting 'Frozen Mermaid Flesh' being sold.
Kanna meets with Ambassador Arimi at the Rebman Embassy. She learns of Lucien walking the Metal Pattern and heading off into Shadow. Kanna then gives more details on the Rebman Sacrificial Dagger theft, and Arimi gives several places to check (the Temple of the Narwhal in Atlantis, Duchess Yurika's mercenary fleet), but suggests that le Fox most likely stole them from the Rebmaquois, as they don't usually hit zeppelins, since water magics aren't as strong in the middle of the air. Kanna then learns that Rebma has resurfaced, though has been taken over by the Rebmaquois. She leaves a request for Corrine to be notified whenever final services are for Moire, even though by now there's not much left. The two part ways, amiably.
Kanna heads over to the Ember Embassy to make an appointment to talk with Sumire at 3. She then commandeers a conference room and holds a trump conversation with Lian (who's on her way to the Infinite Library) about various and sundry current events, such as Lucien's appearance, and the warning of the price on her head. Lian meanwhile informs Kanna of what she learned from Fuyutsuki in general terms, and her intentions to research stuff. Kanna then trump-calls Miki, who loans Kanna trumps of Miwa, Yurika, and the Rebman Embassy and suggests going down to the docks of Amber and shaking people down who might know about Bloc Rebmaquois. She also agrees to get Miki some Begman roses when she's in the area.
Kanna has lunch at Maison l'Roi's, makes small talk with King, and gets directions to Madame ZaZa's in the Ward of the Iron Pot.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru leave for Leng via boat.
Kanna heads to Madame ZaZa's, and pays to have her fortune read. The textual portions resonate strongly with some parts of her Yig Prophesy and intended goals, though the audio-visual parts are more confusing. (at least one part suggests going to see the Shadow Theatre.)
Shaft, Utena, Wakaba, Yumi, and Moriya set sail, trying to track down Jacqui and regularly trying to trump her. Morgan is trumped in to aid them.
Kanna returns to the Ember Embassy and writes down what she saw and heard at ZaZa's while waiting for Sumire.
Kanna meets with Sumire at 3 pm. Kanna explains the events leading up to herself, Beowulf, and Lian trying to sink the KTC smuggling ship to an irritated Sumire. Sumire pointedly suggests that Kanna avoid further work offers that could lead to diplomatic incedents. Kanna lets Sumire know that she's still working on the the le Fox case, and her intentions to be in Begma tracing stuff down that was stolen from Horatio Wapole. Sumire gives some advice on how to recognize them. Kanna then mentions to Sumire the appearance of Percy's prophesy, and how parts resonate with her Yig Prophesy, and the recent appearance of Derith's son Lucien, the 'lost fish'. Further discussion is halted by Sumire's secretary, who says there's somebody there to meet Kanna.
Kanna meets with Kuonji Ukyou, an okonomiyaki chef from Lipun whose family was entrusted with the "Second Key" which was to be used whenever the "Gate of Referendum" in Lipun is about to open (programmed to open 40 years after the Gate of Revolution in Tir'na-Nog). Apparently the Second Key has been stolen by Chaosians (House Tremere, a sorcerous artifact house) and taken to Chaos. Ukyou estimates one to two weeks until the Gate of Referendum will open, and then from there 3 days before Lipun is transformed into a beachhead for the Outsiders. Ukyou asks Kanna, the "Heir to the Sun", for help in retreiving it, and ONLY her help, as the prophesies are rather specific that having more will lead to disaster. Kanna agrees to help Ukyou (while having internal mental reservations, due to the timing and not everything in the story fitting together. However, the -rest- of the information provided, such as the founding of his line (possibly by Prince Van), and the fact that he knows Sidar and ways of dealing with Outsiders, give some credence to his story).
Kanna and Ukyou head up to Ember, and gets him settled in the castle while Kanna runs around. She Patternsights Ukyou, and finds out he has a -full- Air Pattern Imprint.
Kanna questions the four art thief thugs a little more about Renard le Fox -- how many daggers they'd planned to buy from him (about 12), how they got in touch with him (a local fence in Westb'ryport), and where they were planning to sell them (rich folks in the Cape). Kanna then lets them go, having Gabrielle trump them back to Westb'ryport.
During dinner, Beowulf's group overhear the Knights of the Dinner Table (in the service of Hathor) discussing their own search for the spikard, and the possible appearance of 'Dread Pirate Beowulf' and his evil minions. Beowulf's group chats with the KODT, giving false info to the identity of who really hit that KTC ship.
Queen Corrine has a formal state dinner with the Siam Ambassador, who is protesting the KTC ship sinking. Kanna gives the Dining Hall a wide berth.
Kanna meets with Mia, and arranges for her to provide a named/numbered forms convey-shapeshift headband, ostensibly for helping in pursuing le Fox. She also asks for a spell ring with compel/detect truth spells, but that will take several days. The headband should be ready in the morning.
Kanna eats dinner in her rooms and writes in her diary while waiting for her mom.
Kanna gets lovingly chewed out by her mom. Kanna fills in Corrine about her current pursuit of le Fox, his thefts from the Rebmaquois and other places, the appearance of Lucien and the return of Rebma (and the Rebmaquois now holding it), and the entire KTC debacle. She leaves out the parts about it looking like the Yig Prophesy is starting to come into effect, and the entire Ukyou thing.
After Corrine departs, Kanna does a Trump Fortune on wether she can trust Ukyou or not. The results are odd, but not unfavorable, especially since some of the cards confirm her hypothesises about Ukyou, and where they're going to be going.
Kanna finishes writing in her diary, leaves that in the safe while bringing out her travel diary, writes a quick letter to the family in case things go fubar, then SLEEPS.
Beowulf's group makes camp, and Mitsune makes a group of SD-Amberite Blood Creatures to stand guard. They sleep.

Day 5:

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.

Moriya trumps his father to get the status on the assasination attempt investigation. Shizumaru tells him the lords responsible for the assassination have been arrested. There's some worry there may be a rescue attempt.
Beowulf crosses Cafam with Mutsumi, Lily, and Mitsune. They press on into the night.

Day 6

Very early in the morning, Beo and company reach Tirthos and grab it, fending off efforts by the Trio and Chaosians to find it, then fight Quantrill's men at the checkout counter.
Beo and Company take a quick jaunt to Lucas to kill time.
Beo and Company hand Tirthos over to Nanami at her office, and Mutsumi leaves to go deliver purchases.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go to Panopticon. They pass the Keystone to Professor Dillig, then head into Shadow to Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Kanna and Ukyou continue hellriding. They avoid a war between bug-people and lizard-men in one of the shadows they encounter. The territory tends to be mostly jungle shadows, until things become more prehistoric. They break for lunch, and then ride on, getting briefly caught in a pitchblack no-magic no-trump no-real-tech shadow. Ukyou and Kanna manage to light torches and shift shadow to depart. They nearly get caught in a dinosaur stampede, and attempts to shift Shadow to escape do not work. As it turns out, they've ended up in End up in Dinosaur World, aka the Land of Losing Stuff. The two trump back to Lipun via Shizumaru. After resupplying, they trump to DOOM, spack some zombies and grunts, and hellride away. They start heading for the Second Key again, and camp on a convenient monolith.

Day 7

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou continue riding. The environment starts out weird and psychadelic, but starts becoming normal. Ukyou suggests that somebody may have placed something in the way to mislead them. They change their direction to riding towards 'The key that Kuonji is looking for,' which takes them off towards Chaos again. Along the way, Kanna learns more about Ukyou and how in his dreams, he's walked the Tir'na-Nog pattern without knowing what it really was.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Jacqui is finally trumped by Wakaba and pulled through. It is quickly revealed that her left eye has been replaced with the True Jewel of Judgement. While they try to cope with this information, their boat gets attacked by a nuclear submarine. It doesn't sink, but it is inconvenienced, and while they try to cope with the sub, Shaft starts to burn up. Hiko and then Nagisa are trumped in to try and help Shaft, and Utena tries trumping Kasumi -- who is also burning up, and then it is quickly revealed by Morgenstern that something is attacking the Shamber Pattern. Anthy is trumped through, and she trumps Utena, Moriya, Jacqui, Morgan, Yumi, Wakaba and herself to Shaft's mansion.
The group fights their way through Shaft's mansion, encountering the Real Bumpy the Pimp along the way. They reach the Shamber Pattern Chamber, where it is being attacked by some form of blood-slugs. Everywhere the slugs die, they damage the Shamber Pattern. Various means are used to eliminate the slugs, but it only destroys the Pattern further. Finally, the Jewel of Judgement in Jacqui's eye socket eliminates the rest of the slugs -- but too late. The Shamber pattern is 70 percent destroyed, and both Shaft and the Leather Knight are dead. Various folks are informed of their loss. It is revealed that Bumpy was kidnapped by a "Bandaged Freak" -- Lord Lowen of House Helgram. The fact that there's burned into the ground "Taylor wuz here", "The Lion Roars", and "Croatoan" hints that the Lion's Heir and Lowen are in leauge with each other if not the entire house. It is also discovered that Shaft's armory has been raided... which held Shaft's logrus blade.
Anthy, Jacqui, and Gabrielle go to investigate what happened to Morgenstern during this. As they head for Morgenstern's central CPU, his speakers start reporting a prophesy -- one similar to the third section of Kanna's prophesy, but decidedly more ominous as it seems to be instructions on how to ally with the Outsiders. Gaby finally torches one of the speakers as Morgenstern starts to come online. Gaby goes to work helping to restore Morgenstern, and he reports that somebody looking and having the knowledge of Annadil (who made him) had appeared and reprogrammed him, which was why he couldn't get a warning out earlier. Jacqui casts temporal scrying, which reveals an insane version of Annadil wearing clothing out of some weird bubbles reprogramming Morgy. Jacqui and Anthy find out that Jacqui's Logrus imprint has dissappeared, and it is decided that soon, Jacqui will be able to walk the Pattern and attune herself to the Jewel of Judgement in her head.
Lian is trapped in slow-time shadow.
Moriya and Motoko talk to Nanami
Moriya and Motoko talk to Bumpy and beat up some demons that try to kill them.
Later, Moriya and Motoko ride out into shadow, beginning the search for Shaft's killers

Week 2 (March 29-April 4):

Day 8

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou hellride through shadow.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, seeking to learn who killed Shaft
Lucien meets Kitiara
Kanna and Ukyou continue hellriding. Shadow begins to become Chaotic as they approach the courts. The power of the Pattern becomes weaker as they approach the seat of the Logrus. They make camp on a 12-sided die the size of Houston.
Gabrielle trumps Jaqueline and Anthy up to the Fire Pattern of Ember so that she can gain a Pattern Imprint and attune to the True Jewel of Judgement. Jaqueline walks the Fire Pattern, and regains some of her memories, but parts are still blanked out due to her desire not to remember them anymore. The lost memories include what happened to cause Jaqueline to have the Jewel of Judgement in her left eye socket. Jaqueline and Anthy head back to Amber to get magical supplies from Wakaba.

Day 9

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou ride through shadow.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, seeking to learn who killed Shaft
Living land invades Krynn. Lucien fights for a while, then retreats into Shadow with Kitiara.
Jacqui trains with shapeshift and the JoJ

Day 10

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou wake. Their die is about to be rolled by a giant hand, but Kanna manages to use ALL of her brainpower to edit the hand away. They ride on, more slowly this time, and the floating dice get smaller. Kanna manipulates the route so they find a pair of pegasi to use as mounts via flight. They encounter an ice dice hailstorm that's also a psychic attack, and Kanna has them retreat from it so they can rest and sleep for the night (Ukyou himself has no problems with the mental assaults).
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, seeking to learn who killed Shaft
Lucien and Kitiara encounter three wise crones.
Jacqui trains with shapeshift and the JoJ

Day 11

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou wake and ride off again, but this time the trail leads them in a totally different direction. They keep riding, however.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, seeking to learn who killed Shaft
Lucien and Kitiara ride through Shadow.
Jacqui trains with shapeshift and the JoJ

Day 12

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou continue hellriding, and start ending up in subterranean shadows.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, seeking to learn who killed Shaft. They come to Morgenstern's shadow.
Lucien and Kitiara ride through Shadow.
Jacqui trains with shapeshift and the JoJ

Day 13

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou continue hellriding through subterranean shadows.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases.
Lucien and Kitiara ride through Shadow. Lucien goes off a cliff, then later talks to Miki and Kozue via Trump.
Jacqui blows up Morgenstern. She ends up in Loewen's fortress when he 'ports her away, then spends most of the day fleeing after managing to avoid dying at his hands. Motoko and Moriya find her and send her to Kafuin to heal. She trumps Ramon, and teams with him and Keiko to find the missing Anthy and Shinobu. But then she leaves them behind and jumps off to Chaos and finds Shinobu. She finds Shinobu at Aesirways.

Day 14

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna and Ukyou continue hellriding through subterranean shadows. Kanna's pattern abilites begin to weaken -- and her patternsight shows that Logrus is beginning to weaken as well, thanks to somebody using extremely powerful levels of Logrus.
Kanna and Ukyou reach a cave network and Labyrinth that's currently being blocked to Pattern and Logrus by a high-level Logrus user. Trump and Magic are not blocked. The Labyrinth itself leads to "The Third Key" which surprises Ukyou. The two proceed into the Labyrinth, leaving the pegasi outside, Kanna mapping and marking their trail along the way. They encounter some traps trashed by other folks exploring, and ones untriggered which they then defuse. Kanna realizes that the Labyrinth itself is relatively 'recent', as in constructed the past several years if not sooner. The two get caught in a combination psychic/physical trap -- Ukyou has a better time of it than Kanna does, and then teleports them out of the trap before gas can overwhelm them. Kanna desperately calls on Gabrielle's help, and gains psychic reinforcement. They get teleported again to above a pit trap, but Kanna manages to rescue the two of them, and then they shoot whatever invisible things were causing the psychic assault. They press onwards.
Kanna and Ukyou encounter an animated suit of armor and fight it, shutting it down. They encounter a Gelatinous Cube, and as it advances on them, Kanna uses her Gaby Manifestation to torch it utterly. They press onwards, and reach a chamber with three dragon murals (a dragon in flight, a dragon in its cave with casket and hoard, and a dragon burning a town), as well as a note in Sidar to 'Seek the way of treasure'. They touch the casket, which trumps them to a big black hole. Kanna has Gabrielle activate a flight spell, and then she catches Ukyou. They rescue another arrival to the blackness, Spellvis (a BP mage) who seems to know of Ukyou or someone related to him. They ascend upwards, and start smelling various scents. Ukyou and Kanna figure out that the route to sulfur and fire scents will lead them to their goal due to the dragon association. Kanna has Gabrielle protect them from heat and flame, and they fly into a fireball with a coin inside it. They recover the coin, and fly downwards to save a bear (Paddington Bear) who'd also stumbled into the trap. Kanna has Gabrielle trump them back to the Dragon Mural chamber.
Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis reunite Paddington with his compatriots, the Shinsengummi Bears, who are tracking down the notorious thief Goldi Locks (who looks like a taller version of Nanami) and her band of Tcho-Tcho assassins, who had stolen all the honey out of Fort Pooh from the Hundred Acre Forest. Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis examine the coin, which shows the head of Anno, Keeper of the Logrus on one side and instructions in Sidar Runes on the other. The threesome and the Shinsengummi Bears part ways. They use the coin to open another door at a dead end, and head to an underground lake. Spellvis conjures a goldola, and they head out over the lake and choose a tunnel. They get attacked by an acid-spitting Black Dragon which smashes their boat; Ukyou and Gabrielle (in red dragon form) attack the Black Dragon and Kanna uses another flight spell to retrieve Spellvis and Ukyou. They fly down the tunnel, which leads back to the lake. land back at the docks, and tend their wounds and recover before deciding to explore the bottom of the lake, which holds another tunnel underwater.
Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis swim underwater and reach the tunnel. They swim upwards, and surface in a fountain which has seven dragons in various poses, and thousands of keys on the walls. They start analyzing the keys and determine all of them are magicked in some way, and no way to determine if they're dangerous or not. Their investigations are interrupted by attacking conjoured 'bullywugs' (frog-men) from House Aleax, allies of House Nurgal of Chaos which they handily defeat. Another wave attacks, but Ukyou is unable to defuse the explosive rubies they carry in time, though they land in the water and start to sink. Kanna rips off part of the fountain to drop after the rubies, and Spellvis uses a telekenisis spell to catch the others. Kanna examines the Dragon- Hoarding fountain, and determines that the little cache of 'coins' it's guarding is a 50-50 gold/silver (electrum) mix -- and that ONLY one key on the wall matches that mix. Spellvis uses another teke spell to grab the key, which Kanna bags. House Aleax starts trying to dig their way through the underwater tunnel; Kanna has Spellvis conjure up a replacement fake key to put on the wall, and then the three of them trump back to the Dragon Mural chamber. Spellvis starts a tracking spell to find Ukyou's key and they head off into the maze once again.
Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis follow the tracking spell, and encounter a conjoured dead-end. Gabrielle dispells it, and they head along further. They get attacked by Wind Elementals which Kanna and Ukyou fight, while Spellvis gets tumbled away. Gabrielle joins the battle as a fire elemental. Magical seeking lightning is shot at them, and Spellvis gets hit, but Kanna is able to defuse it with her spellbreaking weapons.
Ukyou attacks the four mastiffs that then attack, while Gabrielle detonates to take out the remaining elementals. Kanna and Spellvis are nearly turned to stone, but Ukyou and Gabrielle manage to stop it and reverse the process. Kanna shoots the flying fists that then attack. One of their enemies tries to use an Akira spell, which fails and gives away their location. Ukyou charges for them and almost gets caught by liquified concrete. Kanna manages to extract him, but they both get magically tasered -- Kanna shrugs it off, Ukyou is rendered unconcious. Spellvis recovers and joins them just in time for the three of them to be attacked by a tidal wave of concrete. Kanna grabs Ukyou and Spellvis and runs like a mofo away from it. They run into the Knights of the Dinner Table (literally), who get flattened by the concrete, recover, and chase after Kanna and company. One of them sets off an explosive spell, which destroys the concrete monster and crisps Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis. Kanna has Gabrielle trump them to Corrine's beach house before they can get beat up further.
Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis arrive in Corrine's beach house. Kanna sets Ukyou and Spellvis on couches so they can rest and recover, and gets ministered to by Gabrielle, who fills her in on the past week's events, including Taylor's appearance, Shaft's death, and the additional prophesy (though missing one line, though Kanna doesn't know this is due to Gabrielle still being upset and not wanting to admit she's fallable). They analyze the Third Key, which Kanna still carries, and discover it's a piece of the Logrus. They go to help Ukyou recover and discover that he's actually a she. Ukyou wakes, and they talk and get more information about his life history, and about his job as Keeper of the Gate of Referendum (though not explicitly about that) and hunter of Outsiders. Kanna and Gabrielle determine that he/she HAS walked the Air Pattern in his dreams and is apparently descended from the same line as Saionji, the house of Monde. He isn't -too- enthused about now being associated with Amber Royalty, perferring to work solo, but the discussion gets tabled for the moment in the light of more immediate concerns, like recovering the Second Key and after that, hunting down Taylor
Kanna and Ukyou make plans for finding the Second Key, and gain Spellvis's assistance for this part (though he insists on carrying the Third Key, which Kanna accepts). They make preparations, get Ukyou a trump deck (and Kanna a trump of Ukyou), more supplies, and Kanna makes arrangements for another shapeshift headband from Mia "just in case". She also get a repaired/replaced Gaby manifestation.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune ride through Shadow in his Humvee towards Beowulf's dig site where he found the Vases. They reach the shadow.
Lucien and Kitiara hellride through Shadow.
Jacqui goes to Mimr's Well and drinks. While she sleeps, Loki steals the JoJ. She wakes, takes Shinobu, and goes to Alarsways. She gets captured, and sleeps for days.

Week 3 (April 5-11):

Day 15

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.

Jacqui and Shinobu Minor and Anthy are prisoners in Alarways. Jacqui sleeps; Alars tries to get her JoJ, and discovers it isn't real...
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Lucien and Kitiara ride through Shadow.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune direct digging operations in the ruins shadow.

Day 16

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis hellride after the key Ukyou wants.
Jacqui and Shinobu Minor and Anthy are prisoners in Alarways. Jacqui sleeps
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Lucien and Kitiara ride through Shadow. They encounter Pirotase. They trump to Amber.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune direct digging operations in the ruins shadow.

Day 17

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis hellride after the key Ukyou wants.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Jacqui and Shinobu Minor and Anthy are prisoners in Alarways. Jacqui sleeps. She wakes and escapes, recoverig the JoJ and rescuing SM and Anthy. She beats down and kills man Chaosians of House Alars. Motoko, Moriya, Morgan, and Utena find her and take her to the Keep.
Moriya and Motoko trump to Yig, the ride towards Davros.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune direct digging operations in the ruins shadow. They find a spikard scroll and scan the past, discovering Anno planted the vases. He contacts Anthy about this, then heads out into Shadow.
Lian contacts Beowulf and joins him.
Jacqui, Morgan, Hiko, Keiko, Ramon confront Morgenstern, who banishes Ramon to House Darios and Morgan to House Alars. Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko trump to Yig, then hellride towards Alars. Hiko calls up a Phoenix and they ride it.

Day 18

Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards the Courts of Chaos
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail through shadow towards Cathay. They arrive and get horses, heading into the interior.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko ride the Phoenix towards Alarsways.

Day 19

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis continue riding through rainforest/mountain shadows.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards the Courts of Chaos
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros
Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko ride the Phoenix towards Alarsways.

Day 20

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis continue riding through rainforest/mountain shadows.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards the Courts of Chaos
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.
Moriya and Motoko ride through shadow, heading to Davros. They reach his pillar. They recruit him, then talk to Nanami, who tells them Keiko should have called them days ago. They rescue Keiko from the Great Lo and his Tcho-Tchos.
Motoko and Keiko have a long talk, then Keiko goes and takes a Pattern walk.
Davros visits the Keep with Shizumaru, who arranges for RoboLlewella to dance for him.
M^2 rounds up their posse, trump to Yig, teleport to Davros' Pillar, and start hellriding.
Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko ride the Phoenix towards Alarsways.

Day 21

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis continue riding through rainforest/mountain shadows.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards the Courts of Chaos. They arrive and meet with Anno.
M^2, Miki, Mutsumi, and Keiko hellride towards Aesirways
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.
Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko shadow-fly towards Alarsways.

Week 4 (April 12-18):

Day 22

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis continue riding through rainforest/mountain shadows.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.
Jacqui, Shinobu Minor, and Hiko shadow-fly towards Alarsways. They arrive. Hiko spends the day carefully studying Alarsways. That night, they slip in, but things go awry and Hiko has to blow up large chunks of Alarways. Taking a trump later, Jacqui is nearly killed by alars and persona shifts into Miki to escape.
M^2, Miki, Mutsumi, and Keiko hellride towards Aesirways

Day 23

Kanna, Ukyou, and Spellvis continue riding through rainforest/mountain shadows. They come across the Knights of the Dinner Table again. They tail them for a while, and then attack. Ukyou takes out the dwarf mage, Kanna and Spellvis attack the other three. Kanna kills/incapacitates the woman after she tries shapeshifting to a wolf and then gets hit with a Resume True Form bolt while she tries to hamstring Kanna's horse. Spellvis takes out the crossbow-wielding dwarf with a rain of notes, then Kanna pounds El Ravager II into virtual paste. They recover the Second Key, which is what Ukyou's looking for, and give the Third Key to Spellvis. They retrieve the loot, Spellvis examines it and departs after claiming a wizard's staff as loot, and then Kanna has the remaining loot sent to Ember to be examined as well. They bury the bodies,trump to the Amber Embassy in Lipun, talk with Shizumaru briefly, then ride off to the mountains.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase ride through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.
M^2, Miki, Mutsumi, and Keiko hellride towards Aesirways
M^2, Miki, Mutsumi, and Keiko meet Lord Odin and he gives them some advice.
M^2, Miki, Mutsumi, and Keiko find a suitable shadow. They trump in Nanami, rescue Ramon via Trump Gate, but Davros gets somewhat mangled.
Late in the day, they return to Aesirways. Moriya drinks from Mimr's well. While he sleeps, Motoko gives Davros his 'temptation' as a reward. :)
After he wakes, Moriya tells Odin some of what he learned.
M^2 and Davros trump to Yig.
M^2 and Davros hellride to the Infinite library.
Jacqui and Shinobu are at the Phoenix Fleet.

Day 24

Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note
M^2 and Davros hellride to the Infinite library.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Greyswandir.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng.

Jacqui wakes up in Hale, back to normal. She trumps Utena, then goes to Arden. She then goes to King Tylor, and later, they go heal her mother.
Kanna and Ukyou ride for the Omotaze Mountains in Lipun.

Day 25

M^2 and Davros hellride to the Infinite library. They arrive and do research. Once done, they talk to Shizumaru, who vanishes in mid-conversation. They investigate, and discover he's vanished, no one saw him vanish, and Kafuin has gone mad. While investigating there, they have to fight BU-Fiona, BU-Osric, BU-Finndo, and the RoboAmberites. They retreat, then return with help, crushing the BU-Amberites. BU-Fiona dies, and Nanami takes her spikard.
Kanna and Ukyou reach the Omotaze Mountains in Lipun. They head up through the ancient barriers to the Inner Barrier, where Ukyou then heads on through with the Second Key. Kanna waits there, promising to inform Anno in case things go wrong.
Ukyou begins prepping the spells she needs to scam Kanna. The fake second key is delivered to her.
Jacqui does research with Travis.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Greyswandir.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Cathay, heading for Leng. They reach a watchtower and raid it, learning where Taylor's tower is.
Morgan rides through Arden.

Day 26

Kanna and Ukyou as Kanna sees it:

Kanna waits for Ukyou, and watches as the top of the mountain gets nearly blown off by Outsider power. However, Ukyou manages to close the Gate soon after, getting jumped by a horror from Yenll in the process, but the threat is then locked away. Ukyou drags the carcass off the mountain and rejoins the group. Gabrielle takes the Outsider corpse off to be immolated, and Kanna takes Ukyou to Ember to rest up and heal after getting the Second Key.
Ukyou casts lots of pyrotechnic spells, summons an Outsider, kills it, then drags the corpse down, passing a fake key to Kanna.

Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Greyswandir. They reach the Warrior of the Dark (Bronwyn)'s camp. He discovers she's evil and heads for Shadow Sailoon.
Jacqui does research with Travis and finishes it.
Jacqui goes to the Shadow Theatre and sees it trashed by lizard men. She flees, gets Utena and Wakaba, and returns. She finds out the Edeinos leader knew Taylor. Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards Taylor's Tower.
Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note
M^2 and Davros hellride towards Chaos.
Morgan rides through Arden.

Day 27

Beowulf, Lily, Lian, and Mitsune hellride towards a source of verification of the Vase Note. They arrive at the mountain, investigate and find other groups planning entry, then Mitsune helps cure some of the locals who got Master-Zapped with the TCE. They then enter the Mountain.
Beowulf's Angels pass a series of traps and tricks. But Beowulf misanswers the Sphinx's riddle, then they have to fight the Sphinx. They get the key, beat up the Master, and carry him back to justice at panopticon.
Beowulf's Angels meet with Professor Watson, then Beowulf meets with Kanna.
Beowulf's Angels hellride towards Spellvis.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards Taylor's Tower.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Shadow Sailoon.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
M^2 and Davros hellride towards Chaos.
Morgan rides through Arden.
Kuonji Ukyou/Inji departs Ember before breakfast to grab a zeppelin flight to Ashante to investigate a Taylor sighting.
Kanna, Gabrielle, Nagisa, Shinobu Minor, Corrine, and the Red Knight have breakfast in Ember. Kanna tells the story on how she and Ukyou retrieved the Second Key and sealed the Gate of Referendum, which elicits concern from Corrine and disapproval from the Red Knight, who beleives it was all a scam. Corrine recommends heading back to the gate to check if it truly exists. Gabrielle then announces to the family that Nagisa is her husband and that Shinobu Minor is her daughter, and the reasons for them keeping it a secret. Kanna and Corrine discuss immediate plans, and it is decided to investigate the gate area the following day, and to ask Fuyutsuki for opinions on the Key and other things. Kanna also gets some information on some of the other people-images in her ZaZa fortune from Corrine. Gabrielle makes a trump of the final gate portal.
Kanna and Shinobu Minor spar, taking each other's mettle and developing a good Aunt/Neice bond.
The Lizardmen of Dinosaur World dig up the Shadow Theatre to extract the Lion Spikard of Dreams.
Jacqui meets the Lizardmen of Dinosaur World/The Living Land at the remains of the Shadow Theatre, and heads off with them with Utena and Wakaba.
Kanna, Shinobu Minor, and Gabrielle tour around Ember for a while before lunch, since Fuyutsuki is not immediately available.
Kanna rendevous with Beowulf and Lian and they discuss recent developments over lunch. Beowulf and Lian learn that Shinobu Minor is Gabrielle's daughter. Kanna learns about Beowulf's retrieval of the Lion Spikard Tirthos from CAFAM, the fact that the Urns were planted by Anno, leading folks to the resting place of the Dragon Spikard Hoard of the Dragon. She also learns some more of Jacqui's 'adventures' and the capture of Justice by Lord Alars of Chaos. Lian informs Kanna of the two constructs the Master was researching -- The Black Crown and the Heart of Ice, the former being an Outsider-build construct, the latter an ice and snow elemental construct held by Jadis the White, one of the possible Lion Spikard holders/competitors. Kanna then tells Beowulf and Lian about her own adventures in the past month, about Ukyou and their retrieval of the Third and Second Keys to the Hoard of the Dragon, and the closing of the Gate of Referendum. She also relates the information gained from Madame ZaZa and from Morgenstern... the latter which Lian links up with what she had researched at the Infinite Library -- the Prophesy Of The Dark Heart. Kanna learns that Beowulf knew BOTH Spellvis and a Kuonji -Inji- at Panopticon, and that the KoDT were likely working for the City of Brass. In trying to determine whether Kanna was scammed or not (as they go over the Dark Heart Prophesy), Gabrielle unhooks her limiters to recite her -own- Prophesy, of the reincarnated Menelcamar. Bey returns to Lily and Mitsune, while Kanna and Lian stay together for a while.
Kanna and Lian go to see Fuyutsuki about the Second Key, the Gate of Referendum, and information in Gabrielle's prophesy. They end up in the middle of DworkinCon, mistaken for other creators of universes. (there's 2 Gendo's, 11 Dworkins, 3 Fuyutsuki's (not counting the native one), a Drake, a Tenchi, at least two senshi-alikes, and a Tess in attendance). They meet Other-Lian and Other-Kanna at the end of the festivities, who were stuck in an eight-Outsider pileup and couldn't get to the convention in time. Kanna and Lian then ask Fuyutsuki about the Second Key, which he identifies as a Logrus tendril shaped into a key, and protected somehow from Pattern energies. They also ask about the Blessed Lands, and Menelcamar, and learn that he was the child of a god and a mortal; or in their case, -goddess-, as the Weeping Woman is revealed to be Nienna, the Forger as Aule, and the Deathlord as Mandos -- three of the Valar whom the Arden Elves once served. Fuyutsuki gives Kanna a coke and a map of map of Germany circa 1942.
Kanna and Lian chat with Corrine before dinner about recent developments. They inform her about their plans to check the location of the Gate, given Fuyutsuki's information about the key. Corrine recommends getting a Logrus-user's advice as well. Kanna gives Corrine a heads-up warning for events in the City of Brass, given the existance of the spikard-seeking KoDT in their employ. Lian and Kanna then warn Corrine about the existance of the Black Crown and Heart of Ice constructs. Corrine, in turn, informs them about the dissapearance of Shizumaru and Rimururu, the damage done to Kafuin, and the death of most of the Black Unicorn Amber forces, including Fiona. They also decide to check the Embassy in Lipun for clues on Shizumaru's dissapearance. Corrine recommends to Kanna that she ask the Arden Elves about the Menelcamar and Valar stuff.
Kanna, Lian, and Shinobu Minor eat dinner and recruit her for the investigations in Lipun and the quest to find the current Menelcamar.
Kanna gets her brain checked out, and walks the Fire Pattern to confirm her mind is clean. Everybody sleeps.

Day 28

Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Shadow Sailoon.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards Taylor's Tower. They reach it. They end up freeing a minor outsider and getting it trumped into the Sun. Gabrielle pies them in revenge.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
Beowulf's Angels hellride towards Spellvis.
M^2 and Davros hellride towards Chaos.
Morgan rides through Arden.
Kanna and Lian trump to the Amber embassy in Lipun, encounter Moriya, Motoko, and Davros, and investigate Shizumaru's dissapearance. Davros reports that anybody could have made the keys, like the one she has, but that it was electroplated with Real electrum from the Amber end of reality to protect it from Pattern energies. Lian uses temporal scrying to observe Shizumaru's dissapearance (and Shizumaru and Rimururu making out about a week prior), and extract some mud from the Chaos side of Yig. Kanna tells Motoko about her adventures about the gate, and Motoko states she's never heard of such a place, and she warns them about Kuonji Ukyou. They then part ways.
Kanna, Lian, and Shinobu Minor. head to the Gate area and investigate. Lian's Farscrying of the top of the mountain reveals the existance of a Gate, and meet one of Kuonji's ancestors in spirit form, whose appearance was triggered by Lian's scrying. They learn more of learn more of Kuonji's plans by talking to his ancestor -- that he plans to manipulate Beowulf into retrieving the Hoard of the Dragon and then trying to use it to gain the werewithal to retrieve the Master Spikard from Outside (or the Gloom Device from the Abyss), using him as a judas goat. He also reveals that others had been working on their own plans for crippling the Outsiders, including Shaft and Juri. They learn that Taylor also has his hands on Annadil's notes, making him all the more dangerous. Further discussion is curtailed by the encroachment of the Machin Shin, the Black Wind of Madness, exploting Lian's mental scrying as a loophole. With Gabrielle, Pattern Defense, and Shinobu Minor persona-shifting into Nagisa, they manage to contain and destroy it. Shinobu-Nagisa teleports back to the Keep to continue repairing Kafuin, Gabrielle goes with to keep her out of trouble, and Kanna and Lian part ways for the afternoon.
Kanna arrives at the Arden Stronghold and talks with Hiko a bit about current events. She learns that Shaft had sex with Nienna, which makes him the likely Champion and the father of the new potential Menelcamar. She also frets about her being used by Kuonji to obtain the Second Key, and enjoys a bit of commiseration with Hiko. Kanna states her plans to go to Beleriand, and Hiko suggests taking Morgan along. Kanna grabs a late lunch, and then heads off to talk with the Arden Elves.
Lian talks with her mom, Wasyuu.
Kanna hangs out with the Funk Elves, learns about the recent upswing of cockatrices, and then goes to talk with one of the elven loremasters (Turgon) about the first Menelcamar. She learns that he was Tuor, the son of Beren and Luthien, who used the lone recovered Silmaril to lead the remainder of his people out into Shadow, where he then dissapeared. She learns how long the trip should be from Beleriand to the Blessed Realms -- approximately one week.
Lian talks with Fuyutsuki.
Kanna talks with Lady Yumi about the trip to Beleriand, and learns something about Morgoth's skill levels, strong in both mind and body, but not totally unbeatable. She also gets caught up on what the younger generation is doing.
Kanna does some more research on the history of the elves in Beleriand and their flight from Morgoth, led by Tuor.
Kanna and Lian re-rendevous before dinner with Corrine, and Lian tells Kanna about the fact that folks are competing to be the successor to Nyarlathotep.
Kanna and Lian have dinner with Corrine and the Red Knight. They relate their findings, and the Red Knight continues to not believe that the Gate of Referendum exists. Lian shows Corrine the prophesy of the Black Heart, and some more ideas are exchanged. It's also revealed that Corrine did know of Kanna's hanging from Yig. Kanna relates her conclusion that Shaft had an illegitimate son via Nienna, which surprises Corrine. Future plans are made, which will involve Kanna walking the Fire Pattern to teleport to Beleriand, and then trumping Lian, Shinobu Minor, and an Emberite ship to its shores to set sail for the Blessed Realm of the Valar.

Week 5 (April 19-25):

Day 29

Beowulf's Angels hellride towards Spellvis. They find him in Graceland and meet with him.
Beowulf gets ahold of Bill Vincent and makes a deal with him.
Beowulf's Angels hellride towards the Forge of Power.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards The Great Lo's Tower.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Shadow Sailoon.
M^2 and Davros hellride towards Chaos.
Morgan rides through Arden.
Kanna attempts several times to use a Fire Pattern teleport to Beleriand, and finds it to be spectacularly unsuccessful. They decide on a change of plans, and Kanna has the Fire Pattern teleport her back to Lian, and they regroup to do things the old fasioned way via Shadow-shifting.
Kanna, Lian, and Shinobu M. head out to the Fire Highway on the borders of Ember courtesy of a Gabrielle Trump Gate, and ride off into Shadow via Hellride to gain distance.
First Night of the Full Moon.

Day 30

Beowulf's Angels hellride towards the Forge of Power.
Kanna and co start hellriding for a shadow with a time differential matching that of Beleriand.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase spend the day in Shadow Sailoon, organizing the army.
M^2 and Davros hellride towards Chaos. They reach the Courts of Chaos. They talk to Anno.
Motoko stays behind to wait for Shizumaru to arrive. Moriya and Davros go to Yig. He pulls through Nanami to help trump his mother. But Nanami is actually Fake Nanami, and she and Davros fight him while Papal hordes show up to kill him. Against the odds, Moriya manages to whack the Cyberpope and Evil nanami and avoid death, barely.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
Morgan rides through Arden.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards The Great Lo's Tower.
Second Night of the Full Moon

Day 31

Beowulf's Angels hellride towards the Forge of Power.
Kanna and co continue Hellriding for a shadow with a time differential matching that of Beleriand.
City of Brass crucifies Hiko in Effigy on this day
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase lead the army through Shadow.
M^2, Rimururu, and Davros wait for Shizumaru at house Gainax. Motoko gets Hiko to come help.
Morgan hellrides to Hale.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards The Great Lo's Tower.
Third Night of the full Moon.

Day 32

Beowulf's Angels hellride towards the Forge of Power.
Kanna and company reach a Shadow where the time differential is the same as that currently holding Shaft's child by Nienna (Beleriand).
Kanna shadowshifts a shoreline into existance, and has Gabrielle trump an Emberite ship and crew to the water. They trump onto the ship and start sailing.
Kanna, Lian, and Shinobu Minor sail for three weeks, finally reaching the oceans of Beleriand, but not reaching Valinor immediately. They sail west to try and find it.
Though, things don't seem to work out like they should... the Valar are keeping Valinor hidden and unreachable. More weeks pass as they try sailing and scrying for Valinor, with no effect. Gabrielle tries poking around with Advanced Pattern, and gets poked back by 12 somethings that she senses will get tetchy if she continues.
Kanna heads for the bowsprit and calls out towards the West, entreating the Valar to allow them to meet with Shaft's kid. Ulmo, the Lord of Waters, is sent to parlay. They find out that the child of Shaft and Nienna is a -woman-, and are escorted to Tol Ereesea to meet her. Kanna sketches Ulmo along the way.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase lead the army through Shadow.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos.
M^2, Hiko, Rimururu, and Davros wait for Shizumaru at house Gainax.
Morgan hellrides to Hale. She does a little investigation at the Green Dragon Inn, then rents a boat and hellrides after Juri.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards The Great Lo's Tower.

Day 33

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru ride through Leng towards The Great Lo's Tower. They reach it and go lay an ambush on a caravan, then use it to infiltrate the tower. They find the Great Lo and chop him to pieces. They then trump to Mikage, and travel back to Amber with him.
Beowulf's Angels hellride towards the Forge of Power.
M^2, Hiko, Rimururu, and Davros wait for Shizumaru at house Gainax.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase lead the army through Shadow.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase reach Bronwyn; Lucien duels her and loses, but Kitiara uses a trump he gave her to call Miki and Kozue, who save them.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase go to Kozue's fast time shadow for him to heal.
Kanna, Lian, Shinobu Minor, and Gabrielle reach Tol Erresea (the closest mortals are allowed to come to Valinor). They get escorted to a guest house, and wait there for several days.
Kanna and her cadre meet Moonshade, the daughter of Shaft and Nienna. After some bickering, they finally tell Moonshade that Shaft is dead, which ticks her off 'cause she wanted to take him out herself for having abandonded Nienna. Kanna and co give Moonshade time to vent. Afterwards, they give the story of Shaft's death, and learn that Taylor had attempted to enter Valinor, but dissapeared when they tried to interrogate him. It is hypothesized that Taylor may have been trying to reach Moonshade (for her blood), to grab the remaining two Silmarils, or to try and free Morgoth. They also learn that protections were placed on Beleriand and Valinor by the Valar Mandos and Manwe to prevent accidental intrusion by hostile parties after discovering Beleriand had been invaded by Annadil. Kanna shows Moonshade the family tree with her trump cards, pointing out her branch of the family. Lian goes and has a message relayed to Aule expressing her wish to meet with him. Kanna and Gabrielle ask Moonshade if she'd like to visit Amber, and then tell her some of the facts about the Pattern. They make arrangements to return to Amber.
Lian stays behind to meet and chat with Aule, and also keeps a hold of the Emberite ship and crew.
Kanna, Moonshade, Gabrielle and Shinobu Minor return to Amber via trumpgate and meet Anthy. Introductions are cut short, however, by Vash reporting that the Jewel Of Judgement has suddenly vanished. Anthy goes to consult with Tylor about this. They make arrangements for dinner later with Anthy, and go around to tour the castle and its sights.
Utena, Wakaba and Jacqui head through shadow with the Edeinos. They reach Dinosaur World (Takta Kerr, The Living Land). After some adventures, they reach Rek Pakken, where the Gaunt Man impersonates Taylor. After some talk, a fight ensues, Utena kills Baruk Kaah and Utena gets taken over by Rek Pakken. Jacqui summons the Jewel of Judgement and kills Rek Pakken with it. But she teleports too many times and passes out. The JoJ escapes, but the Gaunt Man takes Utena, Wakaba, and Jacqui and straps them into his Darkness Device.
Morgan hellrides towards Juri.
Kanna, Moonshade, Gabrielle, and Shinobu Minor run across Touga, who's recently returned. He chastizes Kanna for patternsighting him, and Kanna introduces him to Moonshade. They chat for a bit, and Kanna learns of his investigations of the spikard hunt, and she informs him of Beowulf's participation on the matter. They also learn of the destruction of the Shadow Theatre, likely due to a spikard buried there. Kanna also tells Touga how she got a bounty on her head. Gabrielle introduces Touga to her daughter, Shinobu Minor. Touga gets in a zinger on Moonshade before departing.
Kanna, Moonshade, and co go and see the Pattern. It hangs out, very Patterny. Gabrielle gives the usual warnings, but Moonshade decides not to walk it quite yet.
Kanna and Moonshade talk with Queen Yuriko briefly. Kanna introduces Moonshade to Yuriko, and gets more information on what the family's been up to -- and that the Jewel of Judgement has just returned.
Kanna and Moonshade spar. Moonshade's better with weapons, Kanna's better with strength.
Kanna and Moonshade have dinner with Anthy, courtesy of Gabrielle and Shinobu Minor's cooking. Anthy tells Moonshade about her father, with mixed reactions from Moonshade. She is pleased to hear about Shaft's martial exploits, however. Moonshade tells the story of how Shaft defeated Morgoth, and Anthy gets Moonshade into a pretty good mood. Tylor arrives, and informs the group that they believe that Jacqui, Utena, and Wakaba have been taken captive. Tylor asks Kanna if she has time to investigate this, and she accepts. Plans begin to be made, and Kanna learns of the planned construct raid on Ebenscrux. Kanna informs Tylor about the existance of the Black Crown. Gabrielle convinces Tylor to allow her to borrow the Metal Demi-Jewel. Kanna lets Tylor know that she'll hopefully have more definite plans on the following day. She also recruits Shinobu Minor and Moonshade. Kanna learns from Anthy that not only were the three spikard hunting, but that Jacqui had visited the Shadow Theatre, and Kanna informs them of Touga's investigations there. Gabrielle gives Moonshade a deck of Trumps, and this leads into a conversation about Kuonji Ukyou/Inji and Kanna's adventures with him/her. Kanna shows Anthy the Second Key, and she deduces that it wasn't made by her father. However, this doesn't preclude that Anno didn't hire out somebody else to make the keys. Kanna also relates Kuonji's possible desire to restore the power of the Air Pattern to its full potential, and Anthy suggests he would either be trying to rescue the White Knight from the Abyss, or to have the Air Pattern always permanently manifested. Gabrielle asks Anthy about "The Keeper Of The Keys", and she reports that Moriya killed him, earlier.
Kanna talks with Lian and Corrine about the current situation via Trump, updating them on Moonshade's arrival in Amber and Jacqui, Wakaba, and Utena's dissapearance, and gets advice on who to take when it comes time to rescue them.
Kanna writes in her diary and goes to sleep.

Day 34

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail back towards Amber with Mikage.
Kanna, Shinobu Minor, and Moonshade have breakfast.
Kanna, Shonobu M., Moonshade, Kozue, Touga, Misaki, Mia, Vash, and Sumire go to investigate the remains of the Shadow Theatre. They learn of Jacqui's visits there, as well as the Cyberpapists and the Lizardmen. They also find out about a visit by a group of four children, Medieval Bepedal Rabbits, and a rave. Mia shuts down the spell that caused the Shadow Theatre to be overgrown with plantlife, Touga edits the Shadow so that it's no longer breaking up, and they head back to Amber.
Kanna does a little investigation in the Library before lunch. She learns from Travis that there are quite a few cross-shadow capable medieval rabbits, and that the children are the Penvensy children from the Chronicles of Narnian -- which ties in with Jadis the White Witch, who currently controls the Heart of Ice.
M^2, Hiko, Rimururu, and Davros wait for Shizumaru at house Gainax. He arrives. They finish their plans and go to Anschutz to begin their Kunitori of Magna Veritas
The battle of Ebenscrux.
Kanna lunches with Gabrielle, Touga, Moonshade, Shinobu Minor, and Sumire. During it, Kanna gets a trump call from Beowulf updating her on the Ebenscrux situation, the recovery of Drake, the near-appearance of Yog-Sothoth, the destruction of three of the Lion Spikards, and the upcoming trial of Shizumaru. Kanna informs Beowulf on her own doings, the retreival of Moonshade, the concerns about Inji, and the capture of Utena, Wakaba, and Jacqui. After the call, options are discussed for how to distract Inji while they're running around elsewhere.
Kanna reports on the results of the Ebenscrux raid to King Tylor, and then gets suggestions from him on what to do next. Tylor orders the recently-returned Drake to go along with them.
Kanna also reports to Queen Corrine, and gives a request for the Ember information network to start searching for the location of Pharoah Mobius. While it's not likely they'll find him, she does agree to start the search.
Shizumaru returns and is arrested by Royal troops, but allowed to stay in custody at House Gainax.
Beowulf goes to see about making a deal with King Ishmael. He takes Hiko into the bag to heal.
Motoko goes to be tested to see if she is indeed the Bride of the Dragon.
Morgan hellrides towards Juri. She gets ambushed by Bloc Rebmaquois and a whale, but escapes with the help of Captain Ota Ahab. She hires him to take her to the Uttermost East.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Morrigan.
The Marillith impersonates Motoko and tries to seduce Moriya.

Day 35

Shizumaru is tried by the High Court of Chaos, and sentenced to 50 years on 10 counts of Manslaughter for the ten knights of Hendrake he killed.
Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail back towards Amber with Mikage.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Morrigan.
Morgan is at New York City with Ahab.
Kanna's Kadre (Kanna, Sumire, Misaki, Mia, Gabrielle, Shinobu Minor, Moonshade, Touga, Kozue, Drake, Vash) trump-gate to the vicinity of the Shadow Theatre, and start Hellriding for Dinosaur World. Before they make camp for the evening, Kanna shifts the route to where the Jewel was teleported to by Jacqueline. From appearances, it looks like the locations are the same or in a straight line.

Week 6 (April 26-May 2):

Day 36

Nausicaa, Keitaro, Kentaro, and Naru sail back towards Amber with Mikage.
Kanna gets Trump Call from Beowulf before the group heads out the next day. Beowulf informs her on how the Shizumaru trial went (50 years in the Black Tower for Manslaughter). Kanna then pulls Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune through to join the group.
Kanna gets more information about Dinosaur World's setup from Mitsune and Lily. Gabrielle and Touga use the Demi-Jewel of Metal to set up a 'normal probability' zone where things won't vanish. Beowulf then goes and shows Gabrielle and Kanna the inside of his bag -- which actually links to a personal shadow, powered by a Trump Fount that he could possibly use to power a Construct. Options are discussed (and Gabrielle gets enough of a psychic impression to trump items to Beowulf's entrance hall), they exit. The group once again starts to ride off at Hellride speeds.
Kanna and company chat with Drake while they ride, filling him in on the various political situations and other developments during the last 40 years. Around lunch, Gabrielle informs him about John Valois walking the Pattern, Kanna informs him about the state of Therin, and discussion is made about what happened to Rebma. Further discussion is cut off by a (non-)random ninja attack, which they easily fight off. The ninjas were sent to try and take out Sumire, but obviously failed. However, they used construct manifestations in the shape of cellular phones to get from their home high-tech shadow. Beowulf fills in the rest of the group about the existance of the Black Crown construct, and then they start riding off again into shadow via Hellride.
The route becomes familiar for Kanna as that which she and Kuonji took to get to the second key (and ended up in Dinosaur World), and once again they get stuck in a pitch- black shadow. Touga reports that he's been encountering many shadows like this in the past 40 years, and Beowulf notes that this is what happens when a Construct drains too much power from a Shadow. The hypothesis is made that Dinosaur World quite possibly has such a construct within it. Kanna shifts back out to rain forest, and they ride on.
Kanna's Kadre reaches the remains of Dinosaur World's construct, where Jacqueline made her stand, shutting down outsider power there before attempting (and failing to escape). Prolonged investigation by the group helps to determine the likely course of events in the Shadow, and reveals the appearance of the Gaunt Man at the end. Further investigation determines that the Gaunt Man is the one who captured the trio, and that he quite possibly has his hands on one of the Dragon Spikards, the Claw of the Dragon (currently in staff form).
Kanna's group heads off once they determine that they've gotten all they could from the scene of the battle. Gabrielle burns the location to the ground, covers it with rock, and erodes the rock down into fertile topsoil. They take Mitsune's little Chibi-Dinoguy with them as a mascot.
Lucien, Kitiara, Pirotase hellride towards Morrigan. They find Morrigan under attack by the Wild Hunt. Kitiara gets possessed and stabs Pirotase, then loses her sword. Much fighting, but they manage to subdue Kitiara and save Pirotase and withdraw to Amber. He and Morrigan reconcile.
Morgan sails on the Pride of Sayshell towards the Uttermost East.
Motoko hangs out with Suu for a while after a mob of fangirls find her.

Day 37

Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
Lucien, Pirotase, Kitiara, Morrigan go shopping for weapons at Bill Vincent's. Lucien learns that Dolphin plans to crown herself on Day 41.
M^2 and Davros head out into shadow, hunting Demogorgon. They encounter the Man-Thing, and find Rhianna stranded in this universe.
Morgan sails on the Pride of Sayshell towards the Uttermost East. She leaves them behind, taking a dinghy and rides it to the Uttermost East, then gets a hangglider, fights off various hunting horrors,reaches Cathuria, and meets Juri. She also accidentally gives offense to Juri in the process.
Kanna's group travels through foggy and rainy rainforest towards the Tenjou trio.

Day 38

M^2 and Davros head out into shadow, hunting Demogorgon. They find him, and manage to defeat him in amassive battle, but the Gloom Device makes many big messes before all is done.
Kanna's group leaves the rain areas, but continue to be in rainforest. Eventually, they get confronted by packs of werewolves who are trying to herd them towards a cliff. They fight them off, easily, and keep riding.
Kanna tries trumping Mikage and Falme, and gets no response.
Kanna tries trumping Misato, and she and Beowulf learn about the Book of Eibon being found under Jacqui's bed, and almost stolen by one of the Gaunt Man's flunkies, but failed.
Kanna's group continues riding, and end up in an earthquake zone caused by Cthonians (psychic tunneling Outsider servants). They take to the air courtesy of War Zeppelin Ajax.
Kanna's group sails on, and Kanna trumps Lian after dinner. Lian updates Kanna on what she's been doing with the Heart of Ice, and Kanna in turn updates her about their investigations into Jacqui's dissapearance.
The zeppelin gets nearly shot down by a surface-to-air missile attack, but the missiles are easily countered and the group launching them burned to the ground. The realization that the Airship AJAX is a giant target is missed by all those aboard as they sail off through Shadow into the night.
Morgan gets a ride back to Amber.
Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.

Day 39

During the 1 AM watch, the crew encounters another black sand drained shadow, and the Zeppelin starts to crash. Kanna shifts shadow so that they head back out into the jungle, which is successful... but the Ajax continues to crash as all technology and magic fails. The Zeppelin is long-range dispelled, and parachutes fail (which doesn't help most of the crew anyway, since they were long-range kept asleep by the Gaunt Man via the Spikard of Dreams) as people plummet.
Invisible airborne critters try to arrive and attack the falling group as Kanna and Touga are carried by Gabrielle, and a sleeping Beowulf and Lily are carried by Mitsune. Drake and Vash, who awoke upon hitting the ground, fight off werewolves who try to attack the remainder of the unconcious party. Kanna shoots at the airborne hostiles and then goes to reinforce Vash and Drake, while Mitsune works to recover her sister and Beowulf.
Kanna, Vash, and Drake fight the werewolves, but Drake is then drawn off by one of the Gaunt Man's minions wielding Utena's powers. Kanna, Gabrielle, and Vash try to get the remaining unconcious folks up into the trees. Beowulf and Lily wake, and Beowulf uses a racked magical sinkhole spell just in time to counter a spell set off by a compromised Mia Asua (whom Kanna then knocks out). Gabrielle then sets up a firewall dome to keep out the approaching Machin Shin.
Beowulf, Lily, Touga, and Mitsune start putting the wounded unconcious into Beowulf's bag. Lian recovers, and summons her mecha. Lian, Kanna, and Vash go off to assist Drake outside the dome, and find him skewered and without Werewindle. They quickly head back with the injured Drake, just as the Utena-boosted man is using Werewindle to try and kill Beowulf, Touga, Lily, and Mitsune. Mitsune stops the man by intercepting the blade thrust and yanking Werewindle out of his grip before becoming a flaming mist and flying inside him. Beowulf uses pattern defense to neutralize the flames buring Touga's chaos-based Blood body, and gets him stabilized. Gabrielle then uses her own Fire Pattern powers to neutralize the remaining flames. Drake is bandaged, as is Touga and Lily and Mitsune, and they are put in the Bag as well while Lian goes off to try and catch the Machin Shin in an Elder Sign Trap.
Kuonji Inji turns up on the scene, and challenges the Gaunt Man, engaging him in combat.
Jacquline uses her shapeshifting to extricate herself from the Gaunt Man's machines inside her cell, and summons the Jewel of Judgement to herself.
The Gaunt Man teleports away from Kuonji to deal with Jacqueline, leaving Kuonji free to strike at the Gaunt Man's construct.
Lian heads outside the dome while activating her trap, and is immediately set upon by another man stealing Utena's skills, who disables her Mecha. Vash has Gabrielle hand him the Eye of Metal, which he then uses inside his gun to shoot the second rapier-man, vaporizing him. Kanna heads off to recover Lian (carrying Werewindle and Sumire's naginata), and as they return, Gabrielle drops the fire-dome to set off a Pattern-slave. The entire shadow is cleansed of Outsider nastiness, evaporating the Machin Shin and the remaining werewolves.
Jacqueline fries the Gaunt Man with a beam of energy from the Jewel of Judgement, utterly destroying him in the process. At the same time, Kuonji destroys the Outsider construct at the heart of the Gaunt Man's shadow, and the power feedback from Gabrielle's Patternslave causes enough instability for the entire shadow to come apart at the seamsand to be eaten by Hastur.
Jacqueline uses the Jewel of Judgement to teleport to our heroes in Shadow, where they are recovering from the Patternslave. Kuonji rescues Wakaba and Utena via trump, leaving them in a shadow full of Ladders and giving them atrump of Beowulf before he himself departs.
Beowulf and Lian head into the Bag to start healing people while Kanna, Vash, and Gabrielle stand guard. Kanna examines Werewindle and Sumire's naginata to kill the time. Wakaba and Utena escape their predicament when they trump Beowulf and are pulled through.
The group recovers enough to be amulatory (save for Mia, who will need brain cleaning) and exits the bag. Kanna, Lian, Jacqui, and Beowulf go and investigate the site of Jacqui's captivity, or try to, and find that it's no longer there. They then try to reach an adjacent shadow, and encounter an increasing slow-time effect. Analysis by Lian reveals that the Gaunt Man's shadow has fallen into a Temporal Black Hole of progressive slow-time.
Kanna, Beowulf, Lian, and Jacqueline return to the group. Introductions are made between Jacqueline and Moonshade, and Moriya trumps in (after Beowulf nearly gets Gatling-gunned through a trump conversation), and Kanna, Beowulf, and Moriya catch up on some things while various conversational threads are tossed about. Major smoochies are exchanged between Moriya and Mitsune. Folks begin plans for Marches (if they'll be there), and Kanna laments the lack of a date for her part. Kozue brings up that Ruka is wondering if he should ask Kanna out, and Kanna is not opposed to the idea. Moriya trumps back to Chaos, and the Kanna Krew heads back home to Amber to heal and to get brainscrubbed.
Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
40th year anniversary of rescue of Gil-Galad, defeat of Morgoth
Lucien picks up his weapons. He goes to talk to Nabiki. He then contacts Miwa and shifts operations to Atlantis.
M^2 and Davros go to visit Davros' father, Romar, and meet his childhood friend, Anya.
Beowulf and friends build Aeris.
Beowulf and posse trump down to Chaos to go collect rewards for the stolen goods he recovered from the Master.
Morgan gets a ride back to Amber.
Wakaba, Utena, Moonshade, and Jacqueline walk the Pattern. Kanna gets the full details on Shaft's death. Jacqueline summons a patternghost of Shaft, and Moonshade tries to kill him. Jacqui, Kanna, and P-Ghost Shaft manage to talk with Moonshade while keeping her from killing the patternghost. They get out from the center of the Pattern, and head to one of the basement sparring rooms so that Moonshade can duke it out with P-Ghost Shaft.
After Moonshade gets her licks in, more discussion occurs. The possibility of Bumpy having something to do with Shamber is discussed, and it is decided that they'll investigate him that night. P-Ghost Shaft and Jacqueline share some parting words before P-Ghost Shaft dissipates.
Kanna, Jacqueline, Nagisa, Gabrielle, and Moonshade head down to the Ward of the Dead Unicorn and Bumpy's. They meet Bumpy the Pimp, and Kanna gets the story of how he was captured (the same as was told to Moriya and Motoko). During the talk, Gabrielle determines that one of his prostitute-bodyguards is a Logrus user and has some trumps on her. Jacqueline determines that that bumpy doesn't have any sort of Pattern imprint, but that he does have a slight connection to a 'pattern-pimp' somewhere. They then depart.
Kanna, Jacqueline, Nagisa, Gabrielle, and Moonshade head to Shaft's old apartment (and weapons cache) in the ward of the Dead Unicorn, and find it recently burned down. They investigate it, and after defusing a ward leading to the basement, they discover that all of Shaft's weapons have been stolen, but a bottle of vintage Kashfan wine from the time Van 'died' was left behind, along with a note presumably from Taylor.
The Dead U crew have a run in with the Crimson Pimp, someone who's been hassling Bumpy for the past month, and it is determined that he's just the son of a Haradian noble who decided his real calling in life is pimping. The group sends him off.
Kanna trumps Misato about the possibility that Taylor may use Shaft's invisibility cloak to try and do stuff in the castle. Gabrielle gets a psychic impression of Taylor to make trumps of him and begins preparations to try and force-trump him to Ember the next day.
Kanna gets a note by raven to meet with the 'Dread Recreational Pirate Roberts'. She and Jacqueline and Moonshade go to meet him. Kanna talks with him privately, he asks if she'd be interested in going into the pirating business with him (she isn't), and also asks if she'd be interested in a date for Marches. Kanna thanks him, and gives him a trump of herself (over Gabrielle's objections), and after smooching with him, departs. The trio head back to Castle Amber to sleep.

Day 40

Morgan gets a ride back to Amber. Morgan begins researching the Sword of Air.
Lucien rouses support in Atlantis.
Jacqui spars with Moonshade. She introduces Moonshade to Kasumi. Moonshade goes to hang out with Ramon while Jacqui racks spells.
Kanna trumps to Lian and Mechanus. While in fast-time, they plan for investigating and taking down the Heart of Ice. Kanna spars with Drake and gets her butt good-naturedly whupped.
Kanna, Lian, and Drake boomtube to a shadow adjacent to Narnia, where the Heart of Ice was. However, the environment is much different from what it was when Lian was there, now high-tech and high-magic (though still no trump). A Technodemon tries to attack them, but Kanna, Drake, and Lian take it down. They escape the area with their captive before being captured themselves.
Lian, Kanna, and Drake return to Mechanus. The interrogate the captive technodemon, and learn that he's a member of a race called the Tharkoldu, who won a war against humanity in their own shadow after their leader got a hold of the Black Runestaff -- an outsider construct manifestation -- which then allowed him to rewrite reality and start invading other shadows.
Mechanus goes to fast-time to prepare for invading Tharkold. Hiko is brought in case of the release of the Second Sun (which she knows the sealing ritual for). Lian prepares her forces, while Kanna is able to call upon half the Ember starfleet for an orbital strike.
Hiko informs Kanna about Morgan's encounter with Juri in Cathuria, and her current search for Merehallow, and her doubts as to wether Morgan actually -met- Juri or not, given the relative ease of her arrival. Kanna promises to look into it after Marches, if possible.
Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
Jacqui goes to join in a mass-trumping of Taylor. They capture a blood critter, it insults everyone, Mikage rips it a new one, and then Jacqui kills it. She decides to go to Arden. She chats with the Unicorn.
M^2 return to House Gainax. They hang out with Beowulf and company, and Moriya finally teases Motoko too hard about the Dress incident. They have a fight, Moriya ends up going to test himself in the room of Lies.

Day 41

Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
Morgan researches the Sword of Air. She rounds up a possee of Saionji, Thoric, and Mutsumi. They patternport to Sind, get a boat, and start sailing.
Jacqui goes to Dworkinland.
Beowulf tries to help Bessie get to Juri. His mom tells him about his descent from Tylor.
Kanna, Lian, Drake, and Hiko initiate the Tharkold assault.
Kanna, Drake, and Hiko, on the Ember flagship Tsunami, lead the Emberite fleet through Shadow with Drake's massive Pattern skills. They encounter some resistance on the way, but it turns out to be relatively trivial. Once they start reaching shadows like Tharkold, Kanna signals Lian to begin her part of the assault.
Lian's forces boomtube to the shadow outside Narnia, and fight their way with some resistance (but not much, since the enemy wasn't expecting this) over the bridge connecting it to Tharkold. They get across, ending up in an area equivelent to St. Louis on Earth. The Tharkold forces start to rally and try to push Lian's forces back.
The Emberite fleet arrives at Tharkold orbit, and begin massively pounding the anti-aircraft and space defenses as Tharkold tries to fight back. They determine where Lian's group has arrived, and where the highest concentration of Outsider energy is on the planet (a place equivelent to Johannesburg). A Borg cube is gated in by Tharkold. Drake tries editing it out, but it comes back. Gabrielle goes to confront the cube, but is counteracted by the appearance of the Second Sun AND the Windwalker, who try to attack her. Hiko starts working on the sealing ritual for the Second Sun, while Kanna, Drake, and Lian rendevous at the central base in Johannesburg.
Kanna, Drake, and Lian fight their way through hoardes of technodemons and cyborgs through Warlord Kranod's base. Eventually, they determine the most likely place for him to monitor and bunker from the fight. Lian has a drone sent to hit a secondary control center, and then they press on to the last one.
Hiko seals away the Second Sun, freeing Gabrielle to fight the Windwalker (and gains some assistance from Vector Prime.)
Kanna, Drake, and Lian reach the central control area. Drake fights Warlord Kranod while Kanna fights a ressurected Jadis and Lian takes out the cannon fodder. Kranod dispells all conjured items, but this doesn't hamper our heroes. Drake shorts out Kranod's cybereye, and then orders Hiko to long-range-nuke the North Pole, where the Heart of Ice has likely been transplanted. This then gives an opening for Gabrielle to return attention to the folks below, once the Windwalker is pacified. She pies Kranod, blinding him the rest of the way for Drake to carve him up with Werewindle. Kanna goes all out to finish Jadis, and gets her left eye poked out and some brain damage for her trouble. However, Jadis dies (again). The Black Runestaff is evaced to Mechanus, and Kanna is evaced to the Tsunami. Lian and Drake boomtube back to the Invincible (Lian's flagship), after which a nova bomb takes out Kranod's base.
Lian and Drake rendevous on the Tsunami to see how Kanna's doing. Kanna is determined to have a degenerative brain disease placed there by Jadis when she poked out Kanna's eye, but said disease can be counteracted. The group heads home after Lian asks Adm. Sasami to nuke Tharkold down to asteroids.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go shopping in CAFAM.
Motoko, Moriya, and Davros give speeches at the new Demogorgon Battle Memorial. Afterwards, they speak with many Lords of Chaos. Motoko helps Lord Alars find a little more peace.
M^2 and Davros head to CAFAM. They meet Keiko there and get briefed. M^2 and Davros search in CAFAM.
Lucien rouses support in Atlantis.

Day 42

Morgan and company arrive in Dylath-leen. They head up the river to the forest, and discover the goblins are trying to ambush all the invaders, which seems to include a zeppelin and a centaur/satyr/harpy army. They chat with the Serpent of the Tower, then withdraw, sneak in that night, and make off with Merehallow, trumpgating out.
Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
Kanna is treated by Lian, Gabrielle, Dr. Tofu, and Jessica de Alkirk to clean out the brain damage and heal her enough so that she can walk the Fire Pattern to complete her restoration. Kanna spends the rest of the day resting and recouperating, her left eye still damaged for the moment.
Jacqui investigates Endor.
Lucien rouses support in Atlantis.
Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go shopping in CAFAM.
M^2 and Davros search in CAFAM.

Week 7 (May 3-9):

Day 43

Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go shopping in CAFAM.
Nausicaa, Mikage, and Naru do research together.
Lucien sets sail to find a good boat for shadow travelling.
M^2 and Davros search in CAFAM. They stumble on the KODT, and go Spikard Hunting.
They trump in Utena, and then she goes to the Discworld (inside CAFAM's Planet Making Facility).
M, M, D, and U raid the Temple of Really Bad Dead Things and Recover the Luggage, which seems to have the Hoard of the Dragon in it.
Kanna and Lian breakfast with Corrine. Corrine fills them in on Juri of Avalon, Gideon, and Roderick's return to Avalon with Horatia -- and that they spent several decades in an Outsider-controlled universe. Their current plans are related to Corrine. Kanna learns that the chaosian they encountered as one of Bumpy's guards is reporting to somebody in House Nergal, who is against House Helgram.
Kanna and Lian bop to Mechanus to get samples to get a new eye grown for Kanna while in fast-time. Kanna talks with Lian briefly about her momentary depression when JuriAv/Roderick/Gideon's exile in the Outsider-controlled universe was mentioned.
Kanna gets trumped by Beowulf, and then pulls him through. Kanna, Beowulf, and Lian trump-gate to Kanna's rooms, and meet Aeris. They inform Beowulf about the assault on Tharkold and the reason for Kanna's eyepatch. Beowulf then informs them about the Alars situation and Lord Alars' death at Morgan's hands. Gabrielle takes Aeris on a trump tour while Beowulf, Kanna, and Lian discuss the situation further. Beowulf also tells the two about the possible reappearance of the Elemental Priestesses from the Keep as the wives of noted Chaos lords. Kanna informs Beowulf of Corrine's theory that Rei, the Priestess of Fire, was also once a Princess of the First Ember. Kanna learns that House Alars also currently holds Merehallow. She then also learns that Morgan has returned to Amber, AND that Beowulf tried to reach Cathuria, having tried to aid Bessie, the Cow of Atlan Tepes, in trying to reach Juri. Beowulf proposes his Art Museum of Shadow project, which Kanna feels her mother will willingly support. They try to discuss possible options to appease the Forestals of Yig. Beowulf then brings up Taylor's annotations of the Black Heart prophesy, the possiblity that Taylor is Shaft's son, and that Wakaba believes that Bewoulf is the Unicorn's Heir. Kanna relates her own current analysies.
Beowulf gets a trump call from Motoko about finding the casket with the Hoard of the Dragon Spikard. She also informs Beowulf about Lord Alars's apology to Beowulf for attacking him through trump earlier.
Kanna and Lian manage to get some information out of Gabrielle on how the force-trumping of Taylor went. Gaby is clearly not happy with Taylor, but the two of them manage to get her to untense, especially with Lian's ideas for growing a fresh body for a blood creature (such as Touga), and Kanna's own thoughts of Gabrielle's capacity for creation and nurturing.
Bewoulf reports on Motoko's report, and the planned negotiation for Hoard of the Dragon. Kanna admits her feelings of siblinghood to Beowulf and Lian. Immediate plans around and after Marches are discussed. The four then discuss Taylor's annotations of the Black Heart prophesy, the possibility of Kuonji being the smiling slayer (and Kanna's chat with Patternghost Shaft). This Then leads to a discussion of Taylor's last comments, and that the possibility exists that Taylor was a secondary personality to Jacqueline, possibly purged when the Jewel of Judgement took up residence in her. Lian then Boomtubes back to Mechanus to do research and check on Kanna's eye.
Beowulf, Kanna, and Gabrielle discuss the constructs Vector Prime and Aeris, and the developments that lead to them being built. Beowulf asks Kanna what she would want to do about Hoard, given everything, and she responds that she'd have to think about it. Gabrielle mentions that Ishmael and Wakaba may have met once, back in the past when Utena rescued Wakaba from Chaosian Experimentation. They then part ways for the day, after an exchange of reassurances.
Kanna goes down to Amber and reports to King Tylor about the the results of the Tharkold assault. She then does some research on the Logrusfoils and the Eye of Sarlaac in the castle Library, and doesn't find out much more than she already knew.
Morgan does some research, saves Fuyutsuki from Happy Fun Ball Mark 2, and rides down to Arden.
Jacqui goes to talk to more Ewoks on Endor.
Things go horribly wrong for Morgan after the Green Knight pattern ports her to Endor, where she ends up fighting Nippon Techers, Chaosians, the Trees, and then gets trumped by Alars. She manages to kill him and escapes to Aesirways, but loses both calves, her right arm, the Sword of Air, and Tyreein. She passes out.
Jackie saves an Ewok Tribe during the Burning of Endor.

Day 44

Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go shopping in CAFAM.
M^2, Utena, and Davros search in CAFAM.
Kanna gets her new eye installed in Mechanus.
Jacqui goes to talk to more Ewoks on Endor.
Kanna gets asked out by Ruka for Marches. Kanna accepts.
Lucien finds a boat with a body in it, and takes the body to the Isles of Avalon.
Anno rebuilds Morgan with silver limbs.
Morgan goes to see Thor and Sif.

Day 45

Beowulf, Lily, and Mitsune go shopping in CAFAM.
Jacqui goes to talk to more Ewoks on Endor.
M^2, Utena, and Davros search in CAFAM. They find all they need and check out.
Motoko goes to trump Beowulf about the Luggage.
Moriya goes to see Yumi about a nice suit.
Morgan learns that Alars is sending an expedition to find 'The Claw of the Dragon'
Morgan trumps Beowulf and joins him in CAFAM.
Lucien and co. head for the Uttermost South. They kill an Ogre to help out King Neptune.
Kanna checks with the Amber Harbormaster, and finds that the Dread Recreational Pirate Robert's ship, the "Risky Chance," is registered to an "M. Peebles".
Kanna does more research on who hung from Yig, and how to appease the Forestals. In the process, she learns that Haruka and Sakura also hung from the Tree of Wisdom, along with Drake and Shizumaru. She doesn't learn why, however.
Kanna chats with Anthy about Chaos, learning of the Royal Heraldry College, and the fact that she'd need a letter of recommendation in order to actually enter it in any particular span of time.
Kanna buys an Emberite Support Terrarium with tools, Ember Plant Gardening books, and various seeds and soil/ plasma as a gift for Anthy to give later.

Day 46

Lucien and co. head for the Uttermost South. They find the Talahassee, an abandoned freighter with the Black Ape on board. They manage to capture it and put it in a freezer to die. They head onwards to Antarctica, where they enter the City of the Elder Things, find the Demi-Jewel of Water, and manage to rouse Ubbo-Sathla.
Morgan searches CAFAM.
Kanna does shopping in Amber City, buying Begman roses for Miki, a Bonsai for Moriya, and a nice painting for Lonz.

Day 47

In Amber, the holiday of Marching is celebrated, when the campaigning season traditionally opens.

Moriya, Motoko, Nausicaa, Lucien, Beowulf, Kanna, and Jacqui all attend, Morgan is absent.

Morgan searches CAFAM.
Kanna and Ruka head out to one of Ruka's ships and weigh anchor just outside the bay, to spend the night together intimately. While they sleep, somebody cuts the anchor line and sets them adrift across Shadow.

Day 48

Motoko and Davros have an early morning breakfast.
Moriya wakes up and trump-chats with Jacqui.
Jacqui trumps Motoko and Davros and talks to them some. The Magic Eight Ball tells them Loewen didn't kill Shaft and they end up having a bit of a fight with her over the problem of the blood creatures made of Jacqui blood at the Embassy in Lipun.
Beowulf and Lily wake up and have breakfast, courtesy of Beowulf's Magic Bag. They discuss some of the pairings of Marches, and current behaviour of their close relations, and some of the plans of other people to go investigating.
Beowulf has a Trump chat with Jacqui.
Beowulf and Lily then end up meeting with Moriya and Mitsune when they go to talk to Yumi and Travis, and discuss the Dinner's events and Lucien/Nagisa. Beowulf then discusses the Ashante and Pharoah Mobius situations with Yumi and Travis, and his plans for a museum of cross-shadow art.
Kanna and Ruka wake up adrift at sea across Shadow, running ahead of a storm. Kanna tries shifting Shadow to get back to Amber, but this only makes things worse as something pushes back, and edits in hostile sealife. The ship is hit by whales, which causes it to start to sink, and Kanna calls on Gabrielle to torch part of the ship to create a Fire-Pattern gate. The two escape before the ship sinks.
Kanna and Ruka end up in Gabrielle's quarters in Ember, and breakfast with Gabrielle and Nagisa. Gaby informs Kanna that a Logrus User was the cause of their going adrift. They discuss the current Lucien/Water Jewel situation, which discomfits Ruka a bit due to conflict-of-interest issues. Kanna relates some of her future plans to Gabrielle, and Gaby gives Ruka a full trump deck. Kanna also learns that Nausicaa has the Wings of the Dragon. Gaby asks Kanna to do research on Nemuro Hall. Kanna and Ruka finish breakfast, and depart.
Lucien sails from Amber and is ambushed by Bloc Rembaquois. He explodes Shark with the Demi-Jewel of Water, but not before he is hurt to the point of passing out. He is then kidnapped and reprogrammed by Dolphin.
Nausicaa heads off to spy on Bronwyn.
Davros and Motoko go to the garden and track past events; they follow a 'Taylor' into the library and discover he talked to Anna.
Keitaro goes to the library to do research with Anna.
Kanna and Ruka discuss Gaby's declaration about the Water Jewel. Kanna relates Roberts's plans to grab the Eye of Sarlaac, and also asks Ruka if he'd want to escort her to High Summer, and he agrees. They then head down to Amber with the roses for Miki.
Kanna gives the Begman Roses she promised to get to Miki, as well as the trumps she'd borrowed, and then talks with Miki, Madoka, and Mutsumi about some of her current plans. Kanna talks with Miki a bit about Chaos, and the political alliances involved with Tremere, Darios, Fomorian, and Alars. Kanna scritches Tama-Chan for a bit, and then heads off.
Kanna eats an early lunch in her mom's rooms in Castle Amber.
After B&L leave, Moriya and Mitsune talk with T&Y about the Snickers situation.
Motoko trumps Kanna. The two have a conversation, and Motoko informs Kanna that both Anna the Librarian and Madame ZaZa were actually blood-creatures made to infiltrate and mislead the royal family. Kanna, needless to say, is upset about this. Kanna and Motoko also have a discussion about Kuonji's behaviours and intentions.
Kanna trumps Lian, and brings her up to speed with the events of Marching and Lucien's boorishness, some info about Nausicaa's adventures in Leng, and the fact that she's got the Wings of the Dragon spikard, as well as other things. Lian mentions her Touga Body project and Spikard project and possible trip to Kadath, and Kanna in turn informs of her plans to train in fast-time (and possibly be a vacation for Lian and herself), and then hunt down any blood-Talors who might plot to chop down Yig to get the Wood Demi-Jewel, taking down Sumire's ninjas, etc.
B&L go talk to Saionji about Ashante situation. They analyze the raids and Beowulf begins the process of creating spy devices to help find the raiders.
Travis and Moriya go down to talk to Snickers. Snickers/Dilanda explains she is reluctant to help, but doesn't reject it out of hand.
Davros and Motoko find Travis and Moriya and go to confront Anna. They call in Nanami, who takes Anna off for a brain-scrub.
Motoko goes to see Yumi.
Moriya and Mitsune go make out for a while.
Beowulf and Lily talk to Keitaro about Nithian trip. Beowulf trumps Drake and convinces him to join them.
Mario carries off Keitaro to assist him with hunting lobsters.
Nanami and Anna teleport into library. Nanami soon leaves, Beowulf and Lily chat with Anna, Beowulf starts to suspect something funny.
Kanna meets with Moriya, who's out in the Castle courtyard doing unarmed katas. They sit and chat about the current events and their future plans, and Kanna gives him a Bonsai for having taken out the Cyberpope, et. al. Moriya elbows Kanna a bit about her association with Ruka, good-naturedly, which prompts a decent blush from her. They also discuss future trips to Chaos.
Moriya has his brain checked out by Wasyuu, and then walks the Metal Pattern, with Kanna spotting for him. Nothing bad happens, save for a bit of Moriya angst.
Morgan is ambushed by Stagger Lee and flees to Castle Amber, where Hiko is called in by Misato to ID her.
Morgan goes to Arden with Hiko, then goes out to try to draw Tyreein to her. Unfortunately, House Alars sends Tyreein with a Primal Chaos bomb. It nearly kills Hiko, the Green Knight, and Morgan, who end up as captives in House Alars.
Kanna encounters Thoric and Misato, and gossip about current events (Marches, Morgan, etc) over a game of fizzbin. Kanna learns that Morgan ended up being bloodcursed due to them trying to get around the Serpent and steal Merehallow instead, and had just recently appeared again in Amber.
Jacqui goes to the baths with Shinobu. The baths get invaded by lobsters and turtles. Mario and Keitaro come to the rescue. Jacqui decides to go hottubbing with Shinobu (and Keitaro) at Morgenstern's.
The Bath House Riot.
After the riot, everyone flees to an Emberite resort. Moriya and Mitsune end up bailing out.
Kanna and Drake discuss the current Lucien/Rebma Situation in her mom's rooms in Castle Amber, and Drake's intentions to remove the Rebmaquois and place Yuriko on the throne of Rebma if Lucien is not up to the task of reclaiming the city. He also states his current plan to aid Beowulf and Keitaro on their attempt to take out Pharoah Mobius, before heading out.
Kanna heads back up to Ember, and begins her preparations for her training trip. She trumps her mother, and fills Corrine in on the various things she's heard during the day, especially those with a possible political/diplomatic impact (Lucien's 'worthiness' for Rebma, Gaby's plans to snatch the Jewel for Nagisa, Morgan's ever-increasing levels of screwup and having killed Alars). Corrine reassures her, and thanks her for the update, and hints that some good news has been reported to Sumire. She then wishes Kanna luck on her trip.
Kanna eats dinner. Oh, the drama.
Kanna packs the rest of her gear, trumps down to Amber, and walks the Metal Pattern. In the center, she gets a Patternghost of Gendo, and asks various questions of him (What he encountered to get Justice, if he knew about Ember's destruction and when it was in Amber-time, if he knew about Haruka's Hanging from Yig and why, and the intention behind the 5 children of Haruka and their element pairings).
Moriya and Mitsune return to Ember and find Davros and Motoko reverted to childhood.
Kanna gets trumped in the middle of this and patched into a mutual trump call between herself, Jacqui, and Beowulf. missing spikards, and the convergency of their missions. Jacqui also shows Kanna and Beowulf an 8-year-old Motoko.
Kanna finishes the conversation, and then says her goodbyes to Gendo, giving him a hug. She then has the Metal Pattern send her an ideal place for her and Lian to train and explore in fast time, as well as for her to forge Beryllina.
Moriya gathers his posse (Motoko, Davros, Mutsumi, Thoric, Rimururu), and heads to Endor. They start searching the first mound. Motoko and Thoric stay up above to keep watch.
Motoko and Thoric discover Kanawa has a base on Endor; Motoko investigates, Thoric gathers an army.
Jacqui gathers her posse (Utena, Wakaba, Moonshade, Mitsune, Shinobu Minor) and heads to Mystara [Glantri City]. They find a nice hotel and get some sleep.
Kanna ends up in Gold Digger-Jade near Seer's Hamlet. She eventually meets Julia Diggers during her years of trying to find a cure to her 'curse' that prevents her from reuniting with her family (save for one day a year), and begins to train and improve her combat skills under her.
Julia Diggers is cured of her 'Curse' (she was actually phased), and returns to Gold Digger-Earth after the events of the Lich King saga. Kanna takes this time to finally quest for the elements and components needed for her to forge her dream-weapon, "Beryllina", using them and her original shapeshifting weapons and the Hackmaster.

Day 49

Hiko and Morgan accept Kodachi's offer to not kill them if they swear service to end the feud.
The Tournament of Arms and the G'nolga/Tirant crisis occur on Jade. Kanna hears about it, but is only able to arrive in time to witness the final rounds of the Armsmaster Tournament.
Kanna calls Lian, and pulls her to Jade to meet the Diggers as they're preparing to investigate the Nomad Artifacer artifacts.
Kanna and Lian do much interesting investigation. Kanna also improves her mental skills somewhat with Lian's assistance, while she also trains Lian in combat. They find out that the Nomad Artifacers were fleeing the Shadows which tried to invade Jade, who were serving something called 'Mageddon the Warbringer' and draining shadows to try to revive it. Howe