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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:

Week -1 (March 15-21):
 

• Day -7 (March 15)
• Embra-Drake tries and fails to kill Ramon.
• Shinobu evades an assault by Embra-Miki.
• Embra-Corrine attacks Mikage, trapping him in a shadow full of sharks.  He manages to escape and creates a submarine with his conjuration.  That night, he sleeps and dreams of meeting Miki and Madoka and walking the Pattern of Tir'na-nog.

• Day 1
• Today is the Spring Equinox, the Festival of Greening.
• In the morning, Nagisa gets out of bed, and High Priest Geo tells him to go see the Unicorn.
• The Unicorn tells Nagisa to go to Amber and gather the Five Children and their Icons before the Lion of Chaos can strike.
• That night, Shaft breaks up a smuggling operation at the docks, and Nagisa arrives in Amber in the middle of it.  Evil Wakaba and Evil Tylor escape.
• Nagisa goes to Rebma with Derith and Kozue.  They talk, then Kozue brings Nagisa back to Amber.
• Day 2
• Shaft interrogates Hayao
• Shizumaru is attacked by the Silver-Armed Man.  He is rescued by Utena, his mom has vanished via Trump, determined by Corrine.  They return to Amber, and encounter Miki and Fuyutsuki, who tells the tale of the History of Amber, up to the point where Sakura tried to destroy the Pattern.
• Mikage sails into Amber Harbor.
• Fuyutsuki locates Hiko in Hell, brings her to Amber
• Hiko encounters Kasumi and tells Kasumi she is supposed to be dead.  This isn't good for Kasumi's mental health.
• Hiko meets Juri and Saionji.
• Corrine finds out Juri -had- a surviving child by Ludovicus, and later meets Hiko that same day.  Wakaba sorts through Hiko's memories.
• Shizumaru and Shaft see Vash walk the Pattern on a double dog dare from Crusty.  Then they all go down to King's bar
• Mikage goes and meets Miki and Nagisa.  Fuyutsuki, Miki, Nagisa, and Mikage raid Nog'na-Tir and confront Annadil, Embra-Anthy, and Embra-Utena
• On his return, Fuyutsuki gives Shizumaru a Trump Deck
• Mikage meets Madoka
• Hiko opens her locked box.
• That night, there is a welcoming dinner for the Sind Ambassador.  Everyone is in attendance save for Fuyutsuki and Derith.  Miki and Madoka's engagement is announced, Kozue protests and challenges Madoka to a Rose Duel, who accepts.  But before anything else can be done, a commotion occurs up in the Duel Arena. Corrine trumpgates folks up there, where it is discovered that Annadil and Fuyutsuki are duelling, and it is hinted that Annadil may be Shaft's father.  Werewindle is almost lost, but recovered, and Annadil escapes.
• Day 3
• Shizumaru and Shaft breakfast with Fuyutsuki
• Nagisa breakfasts with the King, researches in the Library, and lunches with Saionji.
• Corrine has breakfast with Hiko, and they discuss Trumps.  Corrine then gives Hiko her own trump deck, and Hiko performs a trump fortune with Annadil's trump inside.
• Derith talks to Tylor, takes the JoJ, and heads into Shadow.
• Shaft and Shizumaru head to the Beach and Touga's Beachhouse, and encounter evidence that Touga could have been involved with a shadow of Utena.
• Hiko has brunch with Travis in the library
• Hiko has lunch with Nanami and Shaft
• Later on that day, Corrine and Shaft head into Arden to hunt a Cockatrice for Wakaba, bag one, but almost get skewered by Embra-Corrine who's shooting crossbow trump-bolts.  They escape, and Corrine goes off to make a trump of Whalekiller for Shaft after talking with Miki.  Corrine meets Mikage, and gives him a trump deck as well.  She then returns to Arden to make the trump, taking her out of the picture for the rest of the day.
• Mikage goes to Shalomar and fails to convince Kozue to accept his help.
• Hiko talks to Misato about shapechangers
• Hiko and Mikage meet in the kitchens
• Shaft encounters a shook up Kasumi.
• Shizumaru, Fuyutsuki, and Vash head down to Amber City, and get attacked by red lotus monks.   Shaft drops in and assists them.
• Nagisa has dinner with Saionji and Michelle
• Nagisa chats with Miki, then with Yumi, learning even more about various prophesies.
• Kasumi spends the night at Shaft's.
• That night, Nagisa goes on a midnight flight with Dowager Queen Anthy
• Day 4
• Shizumaru and Hiko get invited to Breakfast by Juri.  They meet, eat, and talk, and agree to a sparring match in the Duel Arena.  Juri wins (natch), but it is a good fight, better than the quick 'duel' between Shaft and Ramon.  Hiko and Shizumaru chat after the duel.
• At lunch time, Hiko and Shizumaru head with Queen Anthy to Arden/Ward of the Elves, meet the Green Knight, and Hiko renews the compact with him after fubaring a forest law.  Hiko meets the Unicorn, and then walks the Pattern, healing her Broken Pattern flaw,  with the Green Knight's assistance.  She does not let people know that she has been healed, however.
• Hiko tracks down Miki and gets a trump of the Green Knight made by him.
• Hiko fakes out Shaft, and in the process convinces him there's something -seriously- wrong with her head.
• Hiko and Shaft go to the Castle 'Bar', run by a soldier named 'Spider'.  There, they all get somewhat soused, as does Shizumaru, who joins them.  Then Nagisa finds them and takes them to the conservatory, where he tries to brief them on what's going on.  Part way through this, Mikage arrives, and everyone bickers.  Hiko calls in the Green Knight, but he just gets annoyed by everyone being a fool.
• Derith reaches his destination and begins sealing off Embra.
• Everybody assembles in the Duel Arena to watch Kozue and Madoka  Rose Duel.  The duel goes seriously fubar -- the end result being Embra-Derith stealing a Shadow of Werewindle and obtaining the  spikard Magnus, extreme amounts of flooding, multiple compulsions, Kozue loosing her hand, and Corrine getting her arm and back sliced by Saionji.  More information on prophesies are  related.  Everybody splits up to heal, recuperate, and whatnot.  Corrine starts recovery, and is told by Juri at dinner the breakdown of events, and of the Prophesies by Hiko to tell Shizumaru.
• Drake, Saionji, Nagisa, and Mikage are assigned to track down Embra-Derith.  Shaft, Ramon, Lina, Gourry, and part of the Amber-Navy are set to track down Embra-Wakaba.  Hiko has decided  to hunt for the magical Icons.  Shizumaru still wants to find his  father, mother, and his own Icon, but is right now unconcious in  the Infirmary.  Tylor will be trying to set up a screen to prevent  the Embrans from entering again.  Lots of other people are healing, including Kozue, who will need to grow a new hand and is currently in a catatonic trance.
• Juri, Hiko, Tylor, and Yuriko meet for Dinner.  Hiko lets folks know she walked the Pattern and healed her mind, and would like the charade of her being insane to continue.  She then trumps out to meet with the Green Knight again, and they chat for a while before making out.
• Day 5:
• Shaft and Utena chat about the prior night's events over  breakfast, and the fact that Anthy is currently rather ticked.  They part after Utena gives Shaft a magical ninja suit, and while Shaft and co sail off to Lipun, Utena heads up to guard Tylor while he sets up the screen.
• Hiko and Juri have a quick breakfast, then ride off through Arden for their first destinations -- Yig and the City of Brass.
• Nagisa rents a ship, and sets sail for Sunken Numenor, following the ring Yumi gave him.
• Shizumaru wakes in the infirmary.  He and Corrine chat, have a little breakfast, and then head off to Touga's beachhouse after the trigger-spell is activated.  They find Touga, find out that Amber-Touga is NOT likely Shizumaru's father, the photo-album was somehow a plant by Chaos (since cameras don't work in Amber/GC), and get ambushed by Chaosians.  The house gets vaped by Touga,  who helps Corrine and Shizumaru escape, and the Chaosians go boom. They return to the Infirmary, and with Wasyuu's help, determine that a -shadow- of Touga is Shizumaru's father... and that UTENA  is Shizumaru's mother!  Needless to say, there is much boggling going on.
• Mikage goes to visit injured Kozue, and Wasyuu tells him Utena is his mother.  He then goes and talks to Utena about this.
• Shizumaru later meets with Utena and they discuss recent developments.  Shizumaru goes to the Library to research more on the Seed of Hope, and then meets up with Michelle and gets her assistaince in shadow-walking to it.
• Corrine informs Juri by Trump about the morning's events and theories.
• Yuriko and Wakaba and a diplomatic group trump to Shalomar Naval Base.
• Mikage and Company (Drake, Touga, Saionji, Nanami, Miki, [Makoto in reserve]) set off to attack Embra-Derith in Rebma.  They manage to free Moire of his control and chase him to Embra's Nedra, where Drake hacks off his right arm and reclaims the Mind Spikard.  Mikage passes out and sleeps for two weeks.
• Shizumaru and Corrine meet for dinner in her quarters.  They chat about various things, she gives him a trump of Yig, and they share Jello.
• Day 6
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri continue riding through Arden.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru heads down to the Chapel of the Unicorn to learn more about the Seed of Hope.  He and Michelle chat and get ready for the next day's trip.
• Derith finishes sealing off Embra, and collapses exhausted.
• Day 7
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri continue riding through Arden.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle depart Amber City for Arden.  While in Arden, they try the trump of Yig, which is blocked and then nuked by some unknown force when they try to push through.  Corrine is informed, and comes to investigate.  Chaos ensues when it is discovered one of her Rangers is actually a ringer.  The false ranger flees, and Spary pursues, causing much damage.  Eventually, Corrine recalls him once he slips out into  Shadow, and then trumps Michelle and Shizumaru to let them know what happened.  They continue riding.
• King Tylor finishes sealing the Embrans out of Amber...hopefully.
• Later that night, Corrine is met by the Green Knight, who tells her it's time to fight or renew compact thanks to Sparky's damage.  He also carries the disguise that the false ranger used -- it was not a chaosian!  Instead, it was the Questing Beast.  The person(s) unknown apparently used Sylia, the Ring of Wood, or similar powers, to disguise the Beast.
• Corrine and the Green Knight fight.  Corrine gets a good workout.  Later that night, she reflects on the past week's events (which touches off "From The Ashes").

• Day 8
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri continue riding through Arden.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue riding through Arden.
• Corrine goes and does some research/asking questions around the castle.  The idea for repairing the Fire Pattern is set.  She then goes and asks Tylor if she can have the FireDemiJewel for a while as she's got an idea where to stash it so it'll be safe from any Embran hands.  She makes preparations and rests up.
• Day 9
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri continue riding through Arden.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue riding through Arden.
• Corrine, now ready, trumps off to Ember with the Fire DemiJewel.  She proceeds through the city, reaches the castle, and heads down to the pattern chamber.  She repairs the Fire Pattern, and then has herself teleported back to Arden to recuperate.
• Day 10
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales, approaching the Isle of Emeralds.
• Hiko and Juri continue riding through Arden.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue riding through Arden.
• Corrine wakes in Arden that afternoon.  She eats ravenously, and gets updates from the rangers as to the current situation.  She then decides to trump back to Ember's pattern chamber, so she can reclaim her stuff.
• Corrine returns to Ember, and finds out the hard way that the city has been reborn, and that she is now Queen.  Much brain breakage occurs, which culminates eventually with Corrine fulfilling the compact with the Red Knight.  She starts to settle into her new role, responsibilities, and rights, querying Fuyutsuki on what happened, and changing the time ratio in Ember to allow her more time to prepare and build her construct.
• Day 11
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.  They take a rest stop at Milesia overnight, and Shaft and Ramon go looking for women together.
• Hiko and Juri exit Arden, and are now capable of shifting shadow.  Some demonstrations are given, and Hiko accidentally hellrides them into the wild west.  They survive, however.  Hiko heals the horses and herself and Juri.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue riding through Arden.
• Corrine compacts with the Red Knight.  Year one of Corrine I's reign in Ember.  Gabrielle is 'born'.
• Day 12
• Shaft and co depart the Isle of Emeralds, and continue towards Lipun.
• Hiko and Juri begin shifting shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue riding through Arden.  They reach the outskirts of Fork, and begin to hellride for Yig.
• Year two of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 13
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri shift shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.  A Chaos Pirate with Chaos Whales tries to catch him, but he eludes the foe.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue Hellriding to Yig.  They make camp, but are almost caught by two dozen riders, who take up the pursuit.  They manage to evade them long enough to find another  shadow to sleep the night.
• Year three of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 14
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri shift shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru and Michelle continue Hellriding to Yig, again under pursuit.  They reach Yig, and defeat the pursuers with Yig's help.  Shizumaru meets a forestal, and learns of what he must do to gain the Seed of Hope -- hang for seven days from Yig.  He begins the process, and starts reliving past key events in Amber.  On this day, he experiences the day Gendo decided to assassinate Sakura's brother.  This is the same day Drake played a prank on young Shinji, hiding a magical talking squid doll under Shinji's bed, calling itself 'Gideon the Ravager Beast'.
• Year four of Corrine I's reign in Ember.

• Day 15
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.  They get caught in a storm, caused by Mannan Mac Lir, who's upset at Lina's whale killing.  Lina makes recompensence by causing a rain of whales.
• Hiko and Juri shift shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the second day.   He experiences the day Saionji angrily demanded to know why he wasn't allowed to walk the Pattern when Van did.
• Year five of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 16
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri shift shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.  He begins to encounter Numenorean fleets, the same fleet over and over in slightly different shadows.  This is not fun.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the third day. He experiences the 639 'Feast of Peace'.
• Year six of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 17
• Shaft and co continue sailing to Lipun and killing whales.
• Hiko and Juri shift shadow, riding to Yig at normal speeds.  Hiko practices how to shift shadow.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.  The fleets stop showing up, and weather turns wretched.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the fourth day.  He defuses the fight which led to Corrine's exile.
• Year seven of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 18
• Shaft and co reach the northern islands and start searching for Embra-Wakaba.  This involves nighttime surveillance, where nothing much is found.  Shaft tries climbing the walls, and unbeknownst to him, sets off magical alarms.
• Hiko and Juri continue on to Yig, and reach it.  They encounter the Hanged Man, attempt conversation with him, and get random prophesies in return.  They then depart, heading for the City of Brass.
• Nagisa sails towards Numenor.  He reaches a giant whirlpool and is sucked down.  Entering an underwater temple, he is assailed by a giant squid and by 'Sauron', a ring-spirit he mistakes for a spikard.  But he triumphs, gains the Cup of Life, and trumps back to Amber.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the fifth day.  He encounters Juri on her return to Amber after the execution of Sakura.
• Year eight of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 19
• Shaft gets word that the Lipunese are attacking the fleet coming to support him.  He sends Lina, who enables that fleet to break through half the Lipunese fleet and get ahead of it.  After several fights, Shaft abandons the island pulls back to the ship.
• The Lipunese Ambassador delivers a declaration of war to King Tylor and hops in his ship.
• Mikage wakes up.
• Hiko and Juri get attacked by a logrus tendril and beat it up.  They begin hellriding to the City of Brass.
• Nagisa experiments with the Cup of Life and learns how to use it.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the sixth day.  He experiences the time when Gendo created the office of Royal Mistress.
• Year nine of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Queen Yuriko, Wakaba, and company ride into Jidrash, capital of Kashfa, just in time to land in the middle of a coup!  Rinaldo, aided by Embrans and Annadil, is taking over and overthrowing Momma Jasra.
• Day 20
• Shaft and co barrage Wakaba's island with their support mages, while Shaft/Lina/Gourry raid the island and fight Lina Inversed, Naga, and Embra-Wakaba.  Lina Inversed dies, Evil Wakaba loses her right arm and spikard, and they gain something which looks suspiciously like the Jewel of Judgement.
• Hiko and Juri reach the City of Brass in the evening, disguise themselves as Efreet, and infiltrate.  They explore a bit, and unable to find the Heart of Fire, they pull back to get more information.  Hiko crafts a language extraction spell to give herself and Juri a teen-level Efreet Vocabulary.  The twosome spend the night at an inn, thoroughly exhausted.
• Nagisa talks to Drake, who takes 'Sauron', and he meets with Miki.  Then he goes to talk to Derith about the Pattern.  He then walks it.
• Shizumaru hangs from Yig, the seventh day. The seventh vision occurs, involving Gendo and Yumi.  Having completed all the visions successfully, defusing Gendo's 'mistakes' at critical moments in Amber history, the forestals give Shizumaru the Seed of Hope, with their blessing.  However, as Shizumaru and Michelle prepare to return to Amber, they are assualted by a grey, white-haired man known as "VENIR 2.0", who seeks the DemiJewel of Wood.  He causes a rain of glass that seriously injures Shizumaru; Michelle trumps them back to Amber, with the Seed, to be healed by Wasyuu.
• Year ten of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day 21
• Shaft returns to his beach-house to rest and recuperate, opting out of the oncoming naval battle with Lipun.  He contacts Fuyutsuki.  Shaft learns that the Sword of Justice has been stolen from Gendo's tomb.  Fuyutsuki identifies the bounty from the raid as the flawed Embran DemiJewel of Fire, and Yuthos, the Lion-Spikard of Lightning.  Unfortunately, anyone who wears a Lion-Spikard puts themselves at the mercy of whoever wears Gulya, the Master Spikard -- such as Wakaba, who was last seen wearing a Lion-Spikard.  Fuyutsuki advises Shaft to walk the Pattern to make sure any implanted directives from Wakaba have been thoroughly flushed out, and to attune himself to the Flawed DemiJewel of Fire.  Together, they proceed to Ember, the City in the Sun.
• Admiral Yamamoto unites his fleet with the fleet of Hang-Kung and prepares to engage the Lipuners.
• Hiko and Juri have breakfast the next day, and mingle in the bazaar to gain information.  They encounter a spice merchant who happens to be haggling with two -Emberites-, who had departed the city during the 500 years of Regent Catherine's reign, via the Fire Highway.  They chat with the merchant after the Emberites leave, learn more about the history of the Heart of Fire and the ceremonies that are held to celebrate each anniversary.  The next anniversary occurs in 10 days.  Juri and Hiko hire on to Avicenna as a delivery woman and messenger girl, so as to kill time before the ceremonies, to gather more intelligence, and to  have a place to stay while incognito.
• Nagisa and Mikage breakfast with Moire.  Later that day, Mikage sets out on the Stingray.
• Shizumaru wakes in the Infirmary of Castle Amber, after 15 hours of sleep.  He will be officially mobile within 2 days, but he will not be fully healed until a week has passed.  He gets Wasyuu to get the Seed of Hope unplanted, and then sends for Brother Abelard to get more information on how to Attune to the Seed.  The best opportunity appears to be to walk the Pattern of Wood, in the heart of Forest Arden at the Grove of the Unicorn.  Shizumaru entrusts the Seed to the safekeeping of Abelard and the other priests of the Temple of the Unicorn, Prince Makoto visits Shizumaru, who informs him about the current political/military situation between Amber and the Golden Circle:
• Half the GC kingdoms have fallen to Embran coups.
• Lipun is currently involved in a naval war with Amber's navy.
• Kashfa, Lipun, Ulia, and Therin are all on the march against Amber Proper.
• The eastern GC kingdoms are either fighting each other or holding off an invasion from Leng.
• Wroland's Diet has been shut down and is keeping out of the conflicts (for the moment).
• Year eleven of Corrine I's reign in Ember.
• Day Shaft+0 (S0)
• Shaft and Fuyutsuki appear in the middle of court,where Corrine is seated on the throne.  Shaft meets Gabrielle, Corrine's 'Daughter' and a Pattern/Trump construct made out of the Fire DemiJewel and the Fire Pattern.  Shaft walks the Fire Pattern, and attunes himself to the flawed Embran Fire DemiJewel.  That night, Corrine toasts Shaft at Dinner for now being a "True Prince of Amber", and afterwards, they they get caught-up storywise, especially with regards to concerns about Wakaba.
• Day S[n]
• Shaft spends the next [n] days getting Whalekiller upgraded and resting.  Corrine, meanwhile, is overseeing the arrival of the pledged militias from the Lava Circle kingdoms, who will help defend Ember when the main portions of the Ember armies head to Amber to assist the Amberites.
• Shaft goes to see Mia Asua, Court Mage of Ember, to get a lead on where the Sword of Justice would be.  Thanks to Gabrielle and Fuyutsuki, he learns that the Sword would likely be in Mordor, where Gil-Galad, the lost half-elf Prince of Amber, was last rumored to be seen.  Shaft obtains permission from Corrine to tell Utena about Wakaba, who might also be affected by her.  They assemble in Corrine's suites, but unfortunately Fuyutsuki is drunk, and   Mia's attempt to detox him does not help matters. They decide to postpone the attempt to the next day.
• Day S[n+1]
• The group reassembles.  Fuyutsuki is in no mental shape to really help, and eventually runs off.
• Shaft decides to go ahead with trumping Utena.  Utena is brought to Ember, meets Gabrielle, and both Shaft and Utena learn that Shaft has the Blood of Chaos in him, as well as Amber.  Shaft learns the story of Utena's relationship with "John Shaft", his father, and her subsequent pursuit to attempt to rescue Wakaba from Chaosians after John Shaft's death.
• Indications point strongly to the entire situation being a setup, especially when Shaft breaks the news that Wakaba has been mentally compromised, and Annadil trumps his way  into Corrine's sitting room immediately after the revelation.  Annadil orders Utena to kill everybody there -- Corrine grapples with Utena to  prevent this, while Gabrielle and Shaft attack Annadil with pattern-charged fire.  Annadil escapes, having learned of the reconstruction of Ember, but not without taking damage and leaving behind a lion-shaped brooch.  Utena is finally restrained by Corrine and knocked out by Mia, who then proceeds to remove the mental tampering caused by Wakaba and/or Annadil.
• Annadil's actions and words, both at the Rose Duel on  Day 2 and here, lead to a strong implication that  he is Shaft's father.  It is also strongly implied  that he was the one responsible for the Ravager Beast that destroyed Ember in the past.
• Shaft learns that Shizumaru and Mikage are also Utena's kids, making them all half-brothers.  The situation in Kashfa is determined to likely have  been a setup to allow Annadil to get his hands on  Queen Yuriko with Wakaba's help.  The group breaks up to rest from the day's ordeals.
• Corrine meets with her Privy Council and Military Staff to give them the lowdown on the day's  events, and what it means for Ember.  Corrine also obtains the current state of the kingdom and  military.  Order Double-checking is put into effect, as well as mindscans for everyone to make sure they have a baseline that everyone is 'clean'.   Someone (likely Mia Asua) is put to the task of  analyzing the brooch Annadil left behind WITHOUT triggering any traps or Geases laid on it.  Actual operation of it is also forbidden.
• Corrine trumps the Red Knight that night before bed,  and tells him of what had happened that day.  She  expresses her worries over the kingdom, her family, and their 'daughter' Gabrielle, now that  Annadil knows of Ember.  She degausses with the with the Red Knight's assistance, and obtains consolation in the most direct of ways.
• Day S[n+2]
• Utena and Corrine walk the Fire Pattern, to verify that all mental tampering has been removed.  Shaft, if possible, is also dragged along.
• Corrine and Utena play catch-up on their respective  past doings -- Corrine relates some of what she's done in Ember, while Utena tells of the current  Political/Military situation with Amber and the  Golden Circle kingdoms.  They then go and consult  with Ember's military leaders to consider possible  options in rapidly deploying the designated  portions of Ember's military to Amber proper to assist them in the coming conflicts (mostly via trump-gates via Corrine/Gabrielle or leading through Shadow, those whose ships are capable of  it.)  Plans are confirmed for the remainder of Ember's military to remain in Ember, reinforced by the pledged Lava Circle militas in case of attack.  Ember's military is effectively placed on Hot Standby for mobilization at that point.
• That evening, Utena, Shaft, Corrine, and several of  her own officials (likely Catherine, Haruka, Mia (or Funaho) and Misaki) meet to discuss on how to  break the news about Wakaba's tampering to Tylor,  as well as how to check to see if any other Amberites have been mindscrewed in as little time  as possible.  Possible options on what to do AFTER  that are brought up (raiding Kashfa to rescue Yuriko and Wakaba and whoever, Shaft's quest for the Sword of Justice, beginnings of military reinforcement (if it's not to be delayed) etc.)  Lord Lonz arrives with the completed near-final draft of the Amber/Ember Alliance papers for  Tylor and Corrine to sign when they're ready.

 
• Day S[n+3]
• Corrine hands off interim control of Ember to Catherine while she is in Amber proper, serving as Ember's "agent" there and getting the Forest Rangers back on track.
• Corrine spends the majority of the day resynching Ember's timeframe to Amber's, returning it to 1:1.
• The remaining folks (Shaft/Utena/etc) get ready to depart, as well as recieve a report on the  analysis of the lion-brooch.
• Corrine finishes the time resynch.  She gets changed back into her old warden uniform, arms up with manifestation-sword and -crossbow, and is then told by Misaki that she IS coming along with her back to Amber.  This Is Non-Negotiable.
• Corrine aquiesces, and gathers the group to return to Amber, courtesy of Utena who looks the least changed of them all.
• Corrine, Shaft, Utena, and Fuyutsuki return from Ember. Gabrielle, naturally, accompanies them, though starts learning the "fun" of being limited to manifestation-projection.  Corrine tells Tylor some of the things that she has done during their quick reunion, the current situation  re. Wakaba and Annadil and Yuriko, and pledges some of the forces of Ember to Amber's defense.
• Nagisa goes and talks to his grandmother, Rei of Rebma, and to Miki
• Corrine and Misaki, after some searching (and a light lunch), find Dowager Queen Anthy up in the Duelling Arena.  They chat, and Corrine learns information about Gideon,  the Ravager Beast in the form of a Logrus Squid, as well as a little bit of Annadil's intentions to open the Gate of Revolution.
• A Fistful of Finndos Begins:
• Further conversation is interrupted as Corrine gets a Trump Call from one of her elven lieutenants, Deedlit.  She reports that someone looking like Juri has been seen chasing the Questing Beast.  Corrine and Misaki trump to the Black Oaks, and get run over by a Bison stampede,  "Juri" in the lead, still following the Questing Beast,  in the middle of a heavy storm.  Corrine and Misaki get  split up, and Corrine manages to catch up to "Juri".  The two continue to chase the Questing Beast in front of the Bison.  Eventually the Bison vanish, and the Questing Beast runs out of sight.
• Gaining a breather, Corrine and "Juri" exchange stories as  they try to figure out where they are, their trumps and pattern abilities nonfunctional.  As it turns out, this  is Princess Juri of -Avalon-, and Corrine is a physical  duplicate of her dead sister Darako.  Using Corrine's  knowledge of Amber, the twosome ride off through Arden  to attempt to reach Amber City through the rains (As it turns out, this is the land of the Squid Gumi, but they don't know it yet).
• In an attempt to proceed to where, in Corrine's Amber, would  be the Warden's Lodge, Corrine and Avalon-Juri encounter  the giant, flaming, Chihuahua of Chaos.  They run from it,  and several Whalekiller bolts are enough to distract it  long enough to escape.
• Eventually, they set up camp near one of the tributaries of  the Barimen river, and take shifts keeping watch.
• That evening, Nagisa meets up with Captain Esmereldas of the Naiad and they set sail to track some raiders for Queen Moire.

Day 22

• Shaft and co (The Lupin Gang, Rally and May, Makoto and Yumi) set out to recover the Sword of Truth.
• Admiral Yamamoto defeats the Lipuner navy with the aid of the Hang-Kungers, then awaits further orders.
• Hiko and Juri work for Avicenna and gather information about the Heart of Flame.
• Nagisa sails through Nedra on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Nedra on the Stingray.
• Shizumaru is informed that Brother Abelard has vanished by High Priest Geo.  He gets taken by Wasyuu to her fast-time lab to heal faster, and on the way, helps fight the Bedpirates of Penzance (don't ask).
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• The twosome wake up the next day (sans sunrise, since it's still drizzling), and make trail breakfast.  They chat for a little while, discussing similarities and differences between people they know.
• Avalon-Juri and Corrine break camp, and catch sight of one of Julian's observation hawks.
• They continue riding through the rain, following the river tributary.
• The twosome make camp for the night, again sleeping in shifts.
• Day 23
• After two days of attempting to trump Juri and Hiko, Corrine and Gabrielle deduce that they're in a Trump-Barred shadow. Unable to contact them that way, Corrine is forced to write off an immediate attempt to go and find them, given the crisises in Amber.
• Shaft and co (The Lupin Gang, Rally and May, Makoto and Yumi) ride through Arden heading west.
• Shizumaru trumps to the Shadow Theatre, watches a playlet, then hellrides to find Abelard with Michelle.  They fight a group of Vikings and rescue Brother Abelard, then get eaten by a whale.
• Nagisa sails through Nedra on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Nedra on the Stingray.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• Around 3 AM, a dozen of Julian's Hellhounds happen into the area, pursuing a deer.  Corrine and Avalon-Juri manage to bring the hellhounds under control, thanks to Corrine's Mad Warden Skillz (hound commands, and doggie treats).
• Avalon-Juri and Corrine break camp and continue heading for the Barimen River, now accompanied with Hellhound escort.
• They reach the Barimen River proper at dawn.  Three hours later, they encounter a Forest Ranger posthouse.  They chat with the rangers (one of whom looks suspiciously like Walker from WRS), learn of the breakout of the MacFinndo gang, and are taken to see Prince Julian, the Warden of Arden in Squid Gumi Land.
• Avalon-Juri and Corrine meet Prince Julian in his hunting lodge.  After some confusion on stories, Avalon-Juri is able to convince Julian that no, Brand has -not- escaped anywhere, and that they're not native to this universe.  Really.
• Ishmael (of House Hendrake) and Rose (Daughter of Flora) of the Squid Gumi arrive, and after some discussion between  Julian and Random via trump, it is agreed that Avalon-Juri and Corrine should go with them to Castle Amber to meet Random, to discuss the matter of the escape of the MacFinndo clan.
• Corrine gets complimented by Julian.  This is marked as  notable by various people, except Corrine.
• Avalon-Juri, Corrine, Rose, and Ishmael ride for Castle Amber.  More stories are traded as they ride, and more bizzare parallels come up, such as the existance of  Fido the Logrus Squid -- and the fact that it's been stolen by the MacFinndos.
• The four reach the edge of Forest Arden at the Vale of Garnath, which is where the rain stops, and make camp as the sun sets.  Avalon-Juri and Corrine learn the story of the MacFinndos from the Squid Gumi persepective, as well as many possible interesting little ramifications for things in Corrine's own universe.  Avalon-Juri recounts some of the details of her own universe's recent crisis.
• They go to sleep.

 
• Day 24
• Shaft and co (The Lupin Gang, Rally and May, Makoto and Yumi) visit the Elves.  Shaft talks to Ringolf the loremaster.  He then gets Fingolfin's permission to recruit.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, and Michelle try shifting shadow to reach the Seed.
• Nagisa sails through Nedra on the Naiad.  He reaches the edge of Nedra.
• Mikage sails through Nedra on the Stingray.  He reaches the edge of Nedra.
• Drake, Nanami, and several others leave to try to rescue Yuriko and Wakaba.
• Jasra, Wakaba, and Yuriko 'escape'.  They get taken for a good brainscrubbing by Annadil.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• Avalon-Juri, Corrine, Rose, and Ishmael break camp, and ride for Castle Amber via the Vale of Garnath.  Along the way, they encounter Rhianna (daughter of Fiona and Mandor), who reports that Fido has been spotted, departing Amber for Chaos, by Gerard.  They reach the castle, adjourn to a waiting room, and meet Princess Fiona.
• Fiona confirms that Avalon-Juri and Corrine have different (but whole and Real) Pattern imprints from the natives. Fiona explains the theory of a "Perfect Pattern", a 3-(or n-) Dimensional Pattern that is the ultimate source of all Primal Patterns and Jewels of Judgement, since even the Primal Pattern is but a 2-D slice of the 3-D Pattern contained within the Jewel of Judgement.  Thereby allowing for the existance of multiple "Real" Ambers, not shadows of the same.  The singularity of the Logrus is also hypothesized, as a means of connecting all the separate "true" universes.  Corrine shows Fiona her trumps, and then Fiona tries an experiment with one of Avalon-Juri's trumps, confirming that non-native Trumps do indeed work in-universe, they just don't have enough power to reach across universes.  Corrine also tries her True Trump Memory, to confirm that it works, trumping Fiona (which worries her a bit, due to the similarities to Brand's abilities -- though Corrine does not know about Brand's powers at this time.)  A postulate is extended that the Questing Beast is an initiate into a higher-level Pattern, hence its ability to bring Avalon-Juri and Corrine to Squid Gumi Amber.  Possibilities are extended for getting back home -- either by boosting the power of the Trumps, or by using the Logrus somehow.
• The group heads to the stables to examine Avalon-Juri's manifestation of Julian, a Fire-DemiJewel powered construct from her home universe.
• Corrine and Avalon-Juri go to see King Random.  They meet him, after some confusion, and get a resummation of current events and wondering at why they're here.  Avalon-Juri and Corrine offer their aid to Random, and then are sent off to Queen Vialle to perhaps figure out why they're here.
• Corrine, Avalon-Juri, Rose, and Ishmael meet Queen Vialle. They chat for a bit, drink tea, learn the story of Corwin and Eric, and then participate in an experiment with three 'talking heads' that are unique Trump manifestations that tap concepts and universal background current.  Corrine and Avalon-Juri ask the three heads various questions, which produce various answers (of variable usefulness) in return.
• Ishmael trumps out in the middle of this to check on the status of the Phoenix, which is currently sleeping in the middle of the Fire Pattern of Ember.
• Avalon-Juri, Corrine, and Rose go to see Dworkin.  They chat while Dworkin plays with his dolls, which bear a striking similarity to the people the twosome have met so far. More information is exchanged, about Avalon-Juri and Corrine's origins, the existance of the Outsiders (and their Lawnmower), and a demonstration of "Castle Brandenburg" stomping the Castle Amber playset.  They learn that the MacFinndos escaped with outside assistance from an artifact of Ishmael's (the Palantir), which gave them power and instructions in exchange for slavery due to coffee-addiction.  The Mole Men, Octopus Men, and the Great Poof are also mentioned as having a hand in this.  The use of the Cave of Worlds is suggested for cross-universe transport.  Action-Mack Akio gets splatted with a pie by the Vash doll.  Dworkin gives Corrine a wooden spoon with many little scratches in it.
• Avalon-Juri, Corrine, and Rose meet Ishmael on his return, who confirms that the Phoenix has not been stolen.  Discussion of some of the information from Dworkin is made.  Plans are made for Ishmael to make shadow-walking devices and crossbows for Corrine and Avalon-Juri to use in the Squid Gumi universe.  Rhianna accidentally blows up the East tower of Castle Amber, in the process of creating badger-wolfhounds to find Fido.  Ishmael heads off to the Fire Pattern to make the items.
• Corrine and Avalon-Juri share a room for the night in Amber.
• Corrine goes and gets the castle armorers to make replacement crossbow and whalekiller bolts for her manifestations.
• Before heading to bed, Corrine and Avalon-Juri chat and commiserate for a while over late-night snacks.

 
• Day 25
• Shaft and co (The Lupin Gang, Rally and May, Makoto and Yumi, some elves) trump to the Beach and begin shadow travelling.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray, hellriding.  Towards the end of the day, they sail through a submarine battle.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, and Michelle save Rimururu from Chaos Fire Demons.  Then they discover the Seed was NOT where they expected.  They set out again.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• Avalon-Juri and Corrine wake the next morning.  In the process of getting changed, they get assaulted by Mole-Men with stunguns and their attack Wargophers.  Ishmael is trumped into the middle of this, and helps fight them off.
• Ishmael provides Avalon-Juri and Corrine with their crossbows and shadow-walking rings.  He also reports that Katsura has found the MacFinndos.
• Corrine and Avalon-Juri learn the names and capabilities of the MacFinndos (Feanor, Arwen, "Findy" Findulas, Fingon, and Maehdros).
• Rhianna is consulted, who examines the mole-men, and declares that they're connected to Otho (son of Caine) in some way.
• The group proceeds to the stables, where they meet up with Rose, Katsura (???), and Roderick (son of Bleys and Lady Tess of Avalon).  Roderick bears a striking resemblence to Horatio of the WRS.
• More discussion is made on the ramifications of the prior day's knowledge before they head out into Shadow via Arden.  Identifying marks of Cupio of WRS, the Ashen Prince, and the MacFinndos are relayed.
• By the end of the day, they reach a cove where a ship waits for them.  They board and sail off.

 
• Day 26
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray, taking it easy to conduct repairs.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• The Squid Gumi Plus Two (Rose, Ishmael, Rhianna, Katsura, Roderick, Avalon-Juri, and Corrine) continue sailing. Time is killed on the voyage in various means.
• Day 27
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray, taking it easy to conduct repairs.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• Katsura spars with Juri of Avalon.  Avalon-Juri handily wins, and Corrine suspects that she might be better than her own Juri.  Corrine practices some of her ammo-trumping tricks.
• Day 28
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• The Squid Gumi Plus Two (Rose, Ishmael, Rhianna, Katsura, Roderick, Avalon-Juri, and Corrine) continue sailing. Time is killed on the voyage in various means.

• Day 29
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• A Fistful of Finndos:
• After "a few days", the Uber Squid Gumi arrive at the hideout of the MacFinndos.  A broad valley filled with coffee refineries surround a single mountain with a skull shaped castle reminscent of 'Castle Brandenburg'.  BeeCams are used to observe the location, but they lose power near the actual castle, suggesting that there's an anti-magic  field about.  The location of the Palantir is confirmed to still be with Suhuy.  The decision is made to infiltrate disguised as coffee-addicted workers.  Perky Puppies are decided to use as a diversion.
• The group infiltrates.  Along the way it is deduced that the MacFinndos are tapping some form of Trump Energy of incredible power and storing it for some nefarious purpose.  The MacFinndos elven ties are revealed to be more than just casual.  Corrine learns of the Fount of Power and its ties to Brand, The Living Trump (and why this is a Bad Thing).  They reach the interior where the five MacFinndos are discussing what to do next.  Our Heroes discuss as well.  They decide to snipe and then attack.
• Our Heroes charge.  Much chaos ensues.  In the process, Corrine becomes Findy's Trump-Psychic-Butt-Toy, and is ordered to grapple with Avalon-Juri.  Jurt appears, and rains flaming death on everyone.  The MacFinndos escape via Fido, just as the Storage Tank of Trump Energy is about to go critical.
• Ishmael trumpgates the group out of the castle, everybody dashing through.  The Keep explodes in a suitably impressive manner.  Ishmael then trumps everyone to a field in the Golden Circle JUST as the trump explosion passes by.
• People start recovering.  Corrine, still under compulsion, continues to try and grapple Juri.  Rhianna knocks Corrine out, temporarily, but she recovers again.  Rose restrains Corrine with Logrus Tendrils, and then uses a Logrus Thread to start cleaning out Corrine's brain.  Rose and Ishmael converse during this.  Avalon-Juri then converses with Ishmael after Corrine is released.  Corrine reacts not favorably to the fact that she was Psyche-dominated, but is placated with a chocolate chip cookie and kind words from Avalon-Juri.
• Corrine has a minor revelation of the parallels between the MacFinndos and her own Arden Elves's history, though the actual relevance of this information is questionable.
• The group trumps back to the site of "Castle Brandenberg". The place is now a smoking crater several miles across, with a glowing mass of Trump Energy at the center, where the keep was. Rose uses the Logrus to try and track down Fido. Avalon-Juri converses with Roderick.  Rhianna takes notes. Corrine thinks about the things that she's learned, and starts working on design notes for a Trump-Computer that could possibly allow cross-universe Trump transportation.
• Rose is unable to track Fido.  The group heads off to Chaos and Suhuy, to use the Palantir to track down the MacFinndos and Fido through the Cave of Worlds, since Suhuy confirms that the MacFinndos are no longer in their universe.  It is revealed that the Palantir was used as a  broadcast station via the cross-universe nature of the Logrus to get the message across.  The Culprit?  Kiryuu Nanami, Assistant Keeper of the Logrus in Avalon-Juri's universe.
• The group proceeds to the current location of the Cave of Worlds, the attic of a old mansion where the Great Bore of Chaos held a party. However, House Fomori is currently having a party there.  They enter as guests, Juri is mistaken for a Chaos Lord's onetime love affair, and they reach the attic.  The group enters the Cave of Worlds proper.  Corrine encounters a vision of Shizumaru, but doesn't follow it.  Rose finds the side-passage that should lead to the universe the MacFinndos are in, and vision blurs....
• A Fistful of Finndos--In the Cave of Worlds (Relation of these events to TAMD time is uncertain)
• Experiences in the Cave:
• Corrine finds herself observing The Duel Called Revolution, where Avalon-Juri and Darako fought at the edge of the Abyss, the one trying to free Brand, the other trying to prevent her.  In trying to get past the duellists safely, she ends up distracting Avalon-Juri who is then killed by Darako.  In the process of ascending to the Duel Arena, Corrine and Darako converse, and Corrine admits that she's likely more akin to Darako in temperment, goals, and desires than she'd normally care to accept.  At the top of the stairs, Darako gives Corrine her sword, "Hummingbird", and the two part ways.
• Avalon-Juri apparently re-lives the final days of Rowen of the Cimbri, a Cimbri Warchief's daughter who was crucified by Juri and Corrine after Haruka's death, and later mercy-killed by Corrine.  It is unknown what the talking crows, the fruitcake from home, and the cows were doing there, though.
• Roderick meets up with Horatio or a shadow of the same on a train.
• Rose has tea with Roderick's mother, Tess of Avalon.
• Katsura has some sort of worthy test of his skills.
• Rhianna apparently is being dissected.
• Ishamel refuses to comment on his own experience.
• Corrine and Avalon-Juri reunite.  They discuss a bit of what they had experienced, without going into excessive detail -- apparently reliving some of the darker moments of their respective lives.  They commisserate for a bit, and then set off to find the others.
• Avalon-Juri and Corrine find themselves in a hallway, possibly a facsimile of the Hall of Mirrors in Amber. They get various dire portents from different picture frames, and then eventually reach a door.
• Beyond the door is the Green Knight, who is ready to collect on a prior debt from Avalon-Juri -- a beheading for a beheading.  However, when he finally tries (defeating Avalon-Juri in combat in the process), his axe-blade refuses to cut.  Apparently, the debt has been repaid by Avalon-Juri's death by crucifixion on a tree in the alternate past she had experienced.  Free to go, Corrine and Avalon-Juri leave the Green Knight to his sulking.

• Day 30
• Hiko and Juri have their strategy session before the big festival in The City of Brass.  They make plans to grab the Heart of Fire during the parade through the city.  They also have a measure of Mother/Daughter bonding.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.
• Day 31
• Hiko and Juri attend the parade in The City of Brass.  They attempt to snatch the Heart of Fire when it is revealed to the crowd, but a Magic Sink cast on the area by the Grand Vizier shuts down all of Hiko's spells (including the one needed to keep herself and Juri cool) save her fire ones, while the Heart of Fire is magically controlled by the Vizier to try and burn Hiko to death.  Thanks to Hiko's quick thinking, however, they manage to escape through the judicious application of  Hiko's flame-based spells.  Reunited with their horses at the  start of the Fire Highway, they hellride out of the City of  Brass, but are still pursued.  Juri detours off the Fire Highway so that they can rest and recover and examine the Heart's abilities.  Shortly afterwards, they trump back to Arden, then retire to Avalon.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.  Lord Falme of Chaos tries to kill him.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.  He manages to evade an assassination and kraken attack directed by Lord Falme of Chaos.
• Lord Benedict of Chaos tries to ambush and destroy Shaft's group, but they break his shadow with a Chaos Negation and escape.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, seeking something to help them find the seed.  They hit the foothills and the heavy rain.
• Day 32
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, heading up into the mountains admidst the heavy rain.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Hiko and Juri are in Avalon, which is turned up to where 40 years happen per Amber day.
• Day 33
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Shizumaru, Abelard, Michelle, and Rimururu ride through Shadow, heading up into the mountains admidst the heavy rain.  It turns to snow.  Then a dragon attacks, but they fight it off.  They manage to crest the peak of the Spine of the World and enter Chaos.  Brother Abelard returns to Amber.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.  He defeats an effort by Lord Falme to grab the boat with a Logrus tendril and captures and reprograms Lord Falme.
• Hiko and Juri are in Avalon, which is turned up to where 40 years happen per Amber day.
• Day 34
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Hiko and Juri are in Avalon, which is turned up to where 40 years happen per Amber day.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.
• Day 35
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Hiko and Juri are in Avalon, which is turned up to where 40 years happen per Amber day.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Nagisa sails through Shadow on the Naiad. He plays chess with the Captain and visits sunken R'yleh.
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.

• Day 36
• Juri and Hiko finish 200 years of R&R in time sped up Avalon.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand.
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.
• Day 37
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow towards Beleriand
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.
• Hiko and Juri leave Avalon and head for the Dragon's Fang.
• Day 38
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.  Lord Falme briefly has psychic contact with Ghanathoa and nearly petrifies.
• Hiko and Juri sail for the Dragon's Fang.
• Shaft and company ride through Shadow and reach Beleriand.
• They spend several months building a boat.
• Then they sail for the Utmost West.
• THEY HAVE A CONFAB WITH ULMO AT TOL ERESSEA.
• They sail back and meet with the dwarves.
• Day 39
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.
• Hiko and Juri sail for the Dragon's Fang.
• Shaft and company are in  Beleriand.
• They raid Angband, rescuing Gil-Galad and recovering Justice.  Shaft humiliates Morgoth in a hard fought battle.
• They return and Shaft talks to Ulmo again.
• Shaft meets Nienna and tries to Mack on her.  He succeeds.
• Day 40
• Michelle, Rimururu, and Shizumaru head through the Desert of Desolation in Chaos.  They reach the pillar of Davros the Chaos Stylite.
• Mikage sails through Shadow on the Stingray.  They reach the area where the pirates they're looking for are.  The ship stops at Rostvolk for shore leave.  Mikage talks to Hrodi, priest of Odin.  He makes a deal with the captain of the Eagle to use his boat as bait.
• Shaft goes to the Beach.
• Hiko and Juri travel by Horse towards the Dragon's Fang.
• Day 41
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.  They hope to thus lure out the pirates.
• Hiko and Juri travel by Horse towards the Dragon's Fang.
• Davros announces they have to go to the Seed; late that day, they fight a pack of Tzmisce.  That evening, they stop at a bathhouse.
• Shaft trumps Utena.  He returns to Amber and gets asked to help track down Wakaba.  Nanami hooks him up with Keiko as an assistant and Ramon.  They go to investigate Wakaba's room, and Shaft accidentally trumps himself to Apokalips and has to be rescued by Miki.
• Shaft talks to Lina, then he and Keiko and Ramon trump to Shalomar, where Captain Ruka supplies them with horses.  They start off into Kashfa.
• Day 42
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.
• Hiko and Juri travel by Horse towards the Dragon's Fang.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Shizumaru and company reach the courts, stop at an inn, spot Kenji, and get shapechanging headbands.  They then prepare to raid House Gainax.
• In House Gainax, they discover they have to enter the Cave of Worlds.  They pass through it to an 'Asgard' like place.
• Shizumaru has to pass three tests:  an eating contest, a Dance Dance Revolution! contest and a 'Bring Urd to heights of sexual pleasure' contest.  [With VENIR 2.0 as his contest, the contest held by the Norns]   As might be expected, the last contest is hard for him, but he wins with a kiss.  However, in the process, Belldandy marries him to Urd.
• Yiggsdrasil goes haywire when they remove the Seed and give it to him.  They flee, then the Norns return to try to fix Yiggsdrasil.
• Shizumaru and company flee back to the Cave and return to their own universe.

• Day 43
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.
• Shizumaru and Company pass through shadow along the Black Road.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Hiko and Juri enter the Dragon's Fang, reach the broken pattern within, and trump in Drake.  They decide to withdraw and return to Amber, where...
• A Fistful of Finndos
• The group gets reunited.  Rose takes point once more, and they are led to a painting room, where a man in black is painting the nuking of Tokyo.  The room itself is all in black.
• It is soon revealed that the man in black is Anno, the Keeper of the Logrus for the universe they're in --  Corrine's Universe.  Corrine thanks Anno for saving the life of Utena.
• Anno has been in conversation with Suhuy, who informed him of the Uber Squid Gumi's incipient arrival. He reveals that WRS-Nanami had hoped to use the MacFinndos and Fido as pawns for revenge, but the explosion and such has now catapulted the Ravager Beast into Corrine's universe, where it's now likely heading for Ember.
• Anno studies Eternity's Rose (Avalon-Juri's Patternblade), and decides that it isn't a risk (for whatever), whereas it is implied that Destiny's Thorn or Silverthorn (two other Patternblades from Avalon-Juri's universe) would be more likely to cause harm.  Avalon-Juri studies Anno's book on Patternblades, and is unable to read it, but the writing is familiar for some reason.
• Anno offers to take the group to his home's front door, where they can then trump to Yig.  They part ways, amicably, and when Corrine asks if she can take any messages up Amber-way, Anno asks for Corrine to tell his son Akio that he's grounded for eternity.
• Corrine trumps the group to Yig.  Her immediate attempts to contact Gabrielle and to TrumpGate to the Beach are blocked (by Yig itself?) as the Forestals come out to confront the group.  They accuse of Avalon-Juri being in league with the "foul theif", VENIR 2.0, who stole the Seed of Hope from Shizumaru.  Apparently there is more than just a passing resemblance to Avalon-Juri's own Venir.  Corrine negotiates between the Forestals and Avalon-Juri, defusing the situation and convincing them (well, mostly) of the sincerity of her and the Squid Gumi's existance.  Corrine trumps the group to Amber, hooking up with Juri and Hiko.
•  
• Day 44
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.
• Shizumaru and Company pass through shadow along the Black Road.  They reach Davros' pillar and part with him, then trump back to Amber.
• Shizumaru walks the Wood Pattern with Hiko, then goes home and goes to sleep.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Day 45
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed. ]
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Shizumaru goes on a date in the city, shopping with Rimururu (and Vash for part of the time)
• Day 46
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Hiko and Shizumaru attend the briefing in the morning for their trip to the Keep of the Five Worlds.  Hiko goes to Arden and does some investigation.
• Day 47
• In Amber, the holiday of Marching is celebrated, when the campaigning season traditionally opens.
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) leave for the Keep on board a boat.
• Day 48
• Mikage and Falme sail on the Eagle, with the Stingray behind them, concealed. They encounter Borealis' three ships.  After a nasty fight, they manage to get the bag, but Mikage is badly hurt and must sleep.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.  They hide from a passing zeppelin in a cloud which Wakaba is riding in.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Day 49
• Mikage sleeps all day on the Stingray.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.

• Day 50
• Mikage sleeps all day on the Stingray.
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.  They evade a group of people trying to track them.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Day 51
• Mikage sleeps all day on the Stingray.  He wakes up late in the day.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Day 52
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Day 53
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Day 54
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.
• Day 55
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft, Keiko, and Ramon ride through the countryside of Kashfa.  Late in the day, they reach Jidrash.  They do some investigation and find a place to stay.  That night, Shaft scopes out the Palace.
• Day 56
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft and Keiko break into the Kashfan Royal Palace that night and almost kidnap the King of Kashfa, but withdraw when someone wakes up.  He trumps Utena to get her to tell Saionji about everything.  He then works out a plan with Fuyutsuki.

• Day 57
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• That morning, Utena trumps Shaft.  Keiko trumps Saionji and they go to his military camp. Shaft meets with Saionji in Harad, where the Zeppelin has parked itself, keeping watch over the Amber and Kashfan forces.  Shaft uses Nanami's talismans to fly up to the Zeppelin, while Keiko uses a spell to fly up there (while hidden in the cloak of invisibility).  They confront Wakaba in the Zepplin, and Shaft manages to defeat and capture her.  He escapes with Wakaba as the Zeppelin blows up, and has Ramon pull them through via Trump.  Of course, given inertia,this causes them to fall off the parapet.  Shaft and Keiko wake later that day, wrapped in bandages.  Wakaba is shipped back to Amber to be deprogrammed by Nanami.  Shaft and co head to a Fast Time Shadow to heal up and take Keiko shopping.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Day 58
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma, riding the Royal Way to reward the crew.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds.  They have a planning conference.
• Shaft is at Ramon's party House Shadow with Kasumi.  A month passes there in one Amber day.
• Day 59
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds
• Shaft is at Ramon's party House Shadow with Kasumi.  A month passes there in one Amber day.  Then Kasumi heads home.
• Day 60
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shaft is at Ramon's party House Shadow.  He decides to draw his own Pattern.  He consults with Fuyutsuki, and starts filling out paperwork.
• Hiko and Company (Shiz, Rimururu, Miki, Tsuwabuki) sail towards the Keep of the Five Worlds.  They reach it in the morning, and Shizumaru, Hiko, and Tsuwabuki go on shore to scout.
• End of Fistful of Finndos
• Corrine of TAMD-Amber, Juri of Avalon, Roderick of Gumi-Amber, and Gideon of Avalon infiltrate the Logrus Squid as it pummels Avalon-Rebma.  They encounter the "Finndo With No Name", who is searching for the Squid's power source.  They reach the engine room, manage to break through the door, and search the heart of the Squid.  The Squid jumps universes -- again.
• The Logrus Squid ends up at the Trump Interface for Drake's fortress shadow, "Marketplace", looking for the Broken Fire Pattern contained within it.  As the Squid goes through its death throes, Annadil's 'agent' takes advantage of the confusion to sieze Werewindle. Marketplace is destroyed in the process.
• Juri uses the Spoon of Dworkin to extract the Logrus Gem and Spikard that served as the central power source for the Squid from the central node crystal.  The Squid immediately begins to fall apart, due to this. Juri tries wearing the spikard to keep it away from Nameless, and narrowly avoids killing Corrine because of it -- she removes the ring before the compulsion on the spikard (Destroy All Fire Pattern Related Things) can take hold.  Corrine trumps the group to the point where they originally entered.  Corrine almost has her brain eaten again by Findulias MacFinndo via Trump, but this time she is able to call upon Pattern Defense.  With that and Juri's help, she's able to hold things off while Gideon circumvents the primary controls on the spikard to boost a trump for escape.
• The Spoon Gumi trumps to the Keep of the Five Worlds(not where Gideon was -intending- to go, given he  thought they were still in the Avalon universe). They meet the Trump Elementals and see the Font of Power (aka, the Fount of the Five Elements).  Gideon holds a conversation with one of the Trump Elementals, while Corrine trumps Utena to find out how long they've been gone.  Annadil, who has control of the Keep, arrives in the courtyard and gloats about his latest  aquisition, Werewindle.  Gideon and Corrine determine all trump connections in the Keep go through the Font, risking Outsider Taint / Brand Syndrome for anybody who uses a trump for Psychic contact or Transporation. Instead, Corrine reaches through her remote Fire Demi-Jewel connection to contact Gabrielle to reactivate her manifestations.  Corrine then ignites Annadil's summoned dinner to create enough flame to form a Fire Demi-Jewel Teleport Gate.  The Spoon Gumi escapes the Keep.
• At the same time, Shizumaru, Hiko, and Tsuwabuki, observing the Keep from a distance, see the smoke, but don't know its significance.
• The Spoon Gumi appears in the kitchens of Castle Amber. They get food to counteract Annadil's summoned feast,  and then talk about information learned during their recent adventures.  Gideon informs them that the Outsiders are at "the bottom of the Font", the "center of the universe", and warns that he might have been affected by this.  Corrine concludes that the Pattern Blades and the Logrus Foils are the keys to the Gate of Revolution.  Gideon also informs them that the Trump Elementals said Annadil was receiving power from the Great Ones/Outsiders, who want some form of barrier destroyed -- possibly the "Mirror" Annadil wants smashed.
• The group goes to inform Tylor about what happened in their adventures, and recent events, interrupting a family blame session in the process.  Juri informs Drake about the skills and powers of the MacFinndo clan, while Corrine tells them of their narrow escape from the Keep and Annadil.  Tylor attempts to trump Hiko to warn them to call off the investigaton, but gets brainburned by Annadil/ Outsiders.  Fuyutsuki and Nanami work on restoring Tylor's brain, and Avalon-Juri, Gideon, and Roderick get guest quarters in Castle Amber.  Corrine goes with them, trumps Catherine, and finds out the state of Ember in her absence and the fact that the Squid Gumi had managed to find a giant shark with which to assault the Squid.  The group chats, has dinner, and retires for the night.
• Corrine trumps Misaki, recovering her.  Misaki crashes on Corrine's couch while Corrine sleeps in bed.
• End of Fistful of Finndos
• That night, Shizumaru, Hiko, and Tsuwabuki penetrate the Keep.
• Hiko, Shizumaru, and Tsuwabuki scale the walls of the Keep to begin their investigation.  They find the table that Corrine slagged, and Hiko deduces that Corrine was in the courtyard at one point.  They examine the Font a bit, determining some of its properties.  Hiko and Shizumaru split up to investigate the Fire and Wood doors in the Palace, while Tsuwabuki stays behind to guard the exit.
• Hiko explores the interior of the fire side of the  Elemental Palace, encountering a hallway that has doors leading to power sources of Fire in Shadow.  She goes up another floor, encountering more of the same, and then proceeds through a door at the end of that hallway to a place where a bonfire's being built.  She goes past that, and enters a temple room with attendant Priestess, Rei, who is awaiting the coming of the Child of Fire to prepare her for being used as Annadil's Pawn.  Hiko stalls for time, milking for info as she can, and then tries to escape, grabbing the Book of Fire and also trying to take the priestess with her.  The priestess manages to severely injure Hiko, though, and avoids capture while Hiko teleports out.
• Hiko escapes back to Amber, walking wounded.  Disraught, she encounters Nanami, and ends up getting referred to Avalon-Juri.  After some awkward consolation, the two manage to get some sleep in their bedrooms.
• Shizumaru meets Kodachi, Priestess of The Great Mother, has a vision from the Great Mother, gets geased, and has a little bit of milk of Shubby influenced food.  After going back to Tsuwabuki, he discovers Hiko has vanished, so they go into the fire side to find her.  After he beats the Basalt Knight, he enters the Fire Shrine, leaving Tsu behind, where unknown to him, Tsu is overwhelmed and carried off for a Font Dipping.  Shizumaru encounters Rei and has tea with her (mmmm, high compellings).
• Shizumaru leaves to rejoin Tsuwabuki, and doesn't find him until he returns to the Courtyard -- where 13 people in robes are about to make Tsuwabuki into a Living Trump via a forced Font Bath.  Shizumaru batters his way through the chanters and jumps to free Tsuwabuki, and both get caught in an upswell of energy from the Font.  After various tactics to escape fail to work, Shizumaru calls upon the power of the Forest shadow and the Seed of Hope to force-grow his umbrella into a bamboo forest, choking the Font long enough for himself and Tsuwabuki to escape it.
• Shizumaru, while injured due to a silver crossbow bolt to the leg, manages to escape the Keep with the unconcious Tsuwabuki thanks to the powers of the Seed of Hope, Shizumaru's etched trump sword, and power words.  Shizumaru blocks the way with a wall of trees, and then plantsurfs to the bay where the boat had been.  He uses Rimururu's icebird talisman to find out where she had gone, while Tsuwabuki recovers and fights off the Trump elementals for a moment.  Shizumaru summons a raft of seaweed for them to 'surf' on, escaping the vicinity of the Keep by heading out to sea to the ice floe Rimururu used to escape.
• What has happened is that Miki and Rimururu got attacked on the boat by Fishmen and octopus monsters.  They fight valiantly, but are overwhelmed.  Miki is last seen putting Greyswandir through a flying octopus's eye before being dragged under. Rimururu flees for Frostspire across the ocean.
• Day 61
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shaft fills out paperwork.
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sleep away much of the day as Shiz's subconscious shadow-walks them towards Rimururu while they drift on a raft of seaweed.
• Corrine has breakfast with the rest, and finds out more stuff, like the fact that Gil-Galad's returned.  Corrine gets reports from Catherine about Ember's state, and from Fingolfin about Arden's state.
• Hiko wakes around noon.  Corrine brings breakfast and the two chat briefly about their adventures while eating and planning on what to do next.  They meet with Yuriko to be debriefed, and gain more information on the state of things.  They decide to have Corrine attune to the Jewel of Judgement in order to control the weather in Amber to prevent Tir na'Nog from forming during nights of the full moon.
• Hiko, Corrine, Yuriko, and Misaki head off to find Drake.  Drake reluctantly lets them into the vaults (after confirming that Hiko and Corrine are not shapeshifters), and gets the Jewel of Judgement out. They head to the Pattern chamber to walk it, but Hiko gets a "Bad Feeling" that warns her that something bad will happen if Corrine attempts to attune to the  Jewel.  Corrine, Hiko, Drake, and Misaki trump to the Fire Pattern chamber to attempt there, but the "Bad Feeling" doesn't go away.  Corrine's brain is checked again, and more mental tampering removed, but it doesn't alleviate the feeling much.  Hiko then has a bad reaction to Chaosian blood trying to infiltrate her own.  Dr. Tofu and Mia are called to help treat her.  Gabrielle examines Hiko's brain during this.  Finally, Corrine hands the Jewel to Drake before planning to walk the Fire Pattern. The "Bad Feeling" diminishes markedly, giving weight to Hiko's concerns.  Gabrielle tries examing the Jewel, and gets blasted for her troubles.  The Red Knight notices, and comes out to investgate.  Corrine FINALLY clues in that the image of the  Pattern within the Jewel is TURNING.  Something that the -real- Jewel of Judgement would not have -- all the Elemental Jewels have static 3-D Patterns, as does the True Jewel of Judgement.  Drake examines the "Jewel" and then shatters it.  As it turns out, the "Jewel" was a fake... in actuality a link to the Logrus, programmed to open a gateway to Primal Chaos once somebody walked a Pattern with it.
• Drake heads back to Amber.  Corrine and Hiko stay in Ember -- Corrine increases the Time Differential to make 20 years pass in 4 hours Amber-time.  Hiko fully heals from her injuries, studies the prophesies in the Book of Fire, the Unicorn Prophesies, and the Pyricorn Prophesies, looking for clues.  She also learns various and sundry spells from the mages of Ember (Fire, Ice, etc), trains with the Heart, and  spars with Corrine on occasion.  Corrine, meanwhile, strengthens her mind, improves her trump skills, learns Pattern Sight, and oversees the rebuilding of Ember City and Ember's military.  Both likely walk the Fire Pattern during this time more than once, given their recent experiences.  They also catch up fully on their stories (Hiko's quest for the Icon of Fire and her time in Juri's Shadow Avalon, Corrine's restoration of Ember and her cross-universe adventures, general life stories for both), and compare notes on the lovemaking techniques  of the Knights.
• Corrine FINALLY gets a report on the brooch Annadil dropped when escaping Ember.  Although made of a weird alloy of gold and bronze, handmade and made of 'real' metals, and capable of holding a magical electrical charge, it's not inherently magical in and of itself.
• Drake leaves his keys with Nabiki, walks the Pattern, and vanishes.
• Hiko and Corrine return to Amber after 20 years in Ember.
• Hiko makes out with the Green Knight.
• Corrine has dinner with Yuriko and Anthy, gains more information on what's happened in their absence, and then heads to bed.
• Day 62
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shaft does paperwork.
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sleep away much of the day as Shiz's subconscious shadow-walks them towards Rimururu while they drift on a raft of seaweed.  They wake in the afternoon and continue sailing.  They dispute on whether or not Sashimi is any good.
• Hiko returns to Castle Amber after a touching departure from the Green Knight.  She searches for Nanami, and  finds her working on Wakaba's brain.  They talk for a bit, and then start to get into an argument.  Corrine arrives in time to interrupt the mudslinging, and she and Hiko and Misaki head back up, making plans on how to find Shizumaru.
• Corrine, Hiko, Misaki, Juri of Avalon, and Roderick of Gumi-Amber trump out of Arden and begin Hellriding to find Shizumaru.  However, they soon get caught in a Shadow-trap, ending up in a 'Giant' version of Amber where Trump, Magic, and Shapeshifting doesn't work, and Pattern and DemiJewel attunements are blocked. They get within a nearby village before the wolves sent to eat 'naughty children' can reach them.  The group attempts to communicate with the giants, through pictographs and mental communcation, and learn that they are in 'Linden Village', south of Arden in 'Gamber'.  They are also thought of as children, and are herded inside for bedtime, where they see a puppet show about 'Hiki the Bad Girl Who was Eaten by Wolves for Being Naughty'.  They get some rest, sleeping in shifts.
• Day 63
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shaft starts drawing his own Pattern.  Time dilates.
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sail through shadow on a raft of seaweed, following Rimururu's bird talisman.
• Hiko and Company explore the 'small' village after having breakfast.  During 'playtime', Hiko, Juri, and Corrine scout around the village and discover that they have a flock of carrier doves.  The idea is made to escape the village (and avoid the wolves) by flying out on the doves.  Juri and Corrine go and make riding tack for the doves while Hiko communicates with a child in the village. That night, they escape out the window of the bedroom, and sneak to the clock tower where the doves are held. Hiko talks to the doves and discovers which color dove heads north.  The group obtains the green doves, gets the tack on them, and fly off into the night.
• Corrine attempts shadow-shifting as they fly, and a card appears in a 'pop' in her lap.  Corrine studies it: it looks like a trump card, one side showing a stylized blue wave, and the other a child being spanked.  They land on a branch, try their trumps again to the sound of piped-in music, and then try the card provided by Derith.  They get displaced out of Gamber...

• Day 64
• Hiko and company end up in the Shadowplay Theatre, along with their doves.  Below, on the stage, the shadow-play figures play out a little story about a little boy being harassed by bullies, who runs away, crying.  Later, he heads down a set of steps into the ocean.  Corrine concludes that the playlet tells the story of Derith's early days in Amber, and his subsequent heading to Rebma. The homicidal train, however, she has no clue on. The group mounts up on the doves, and hellride out of there, searching for Shizumaru once more.
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shaft starts drawing his own Pattern.  Time dilates.
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sail through shadow on a raft of seaweed, following Rimururu's bird talisman.
• Day 65
• Shaft starts drawing his own Pattern.  Time dilates.
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sail through shadow on a raft of seaweed, following Rimururu's bird talisman.
• Hiko and Company hellride towards Shizumaru.
• Day 66
• Shaft starts drawing his own Pattern.  Time dilates.  He finishes and Pattern 'ports to his bedroom.  He sleeps.
• Shizumaru and Tsuwabuki sail through shadow on a raft of seaweed, following Rimururu's bird talisman.  They are picked up by a boat from Frostspire and reunited with Rimururu, who thought they were all dead.  Rimururu tells them of what happened to herself and Miki, and then treats Shizumaru's wounds.  The group then sleeps until the next day.
• Mikage sails on the Stingray through Shadow towards Rebma.  He reaches Nedra.
• Hiko and Company hellride towards Shizumaru.
• Day 67
• Shaft Sleeps.
• Shizumaru talks with Rimururu, and then proposes to her.  Rimururu defers the decision until next spring, but gives him an ice ring as a symbol of their pledge.
• Mikage reaches Rebma and meets with Moire.  He then spends some time studying his icon.
• Hiko and Company hellride towards Shizumaru.
• Day 68
• Shaft Sleeps.
• Shizumaru meets with Rimururu's family.  He answers questions of who he is, and defeats Rimururu's uncle Kido in staff combat.  He then asks her great-grandfather for Rimururu's hand in marraige.
• Mikage talks to Derith at a banquet, walks the Rebma Pattern, and then teleports to Nemuro Hall.
• Derith completes his experiments and Rebma is pulled out of this reality.
• Hiko and Co arrive at Frostspire, startling folks with their giant doves.  They land at the beach, and reunite with Shizumaru, Tsuwabuki, and Rimururu. Hiko is airsick due to lack of experience in flying creatures and her anti-morning-sickness spells wearing off, but recovers. As they start to get up to speed with what happened at the Keep, Urd appears, glomping Shizumaru.  Urd apparently knows Juri of Avalon, and mistakes Corrine for Darako, but Av-Juri has never met her before.  The inevitable confusion and shenanegians occur.  Hiko tries to seperate Urd and Shizumaru, and then tries to electrocute her, but Urd trumps Hiko away.  Corrine trumps Hiko back from falling.  Juri of Avalon then puts the Mack on Urd, making Urd uncomfortable enough to let go of Shizumaru while making conversation.  As it turns out, according to Skuld's calcuations, the universe will end in a week, hence Urd's hurried search for Shizumaru.  Juri continues to put the Mack on Urd; Roderick mentally objects but is able to control himself.  Urd finally breaks off for the nonce, since to her, making out with Juri of Avalon would be Incest.  Shizumaru tries to explain to Hiko just what the arrangement was with Urd.
• It finally dawns on folks that Miki is missing.  Rimururu feels guilt at not being able to save Miki, and Hiko goes postal on her, which doesn't help the situation.  Shizumaru consoles Rimururu while Hiko has a mini-breakdown at the realization that Annadil now has all 4 blades needed to open the Gate.  Hiko's psyche is such is that all there are hit with her depression and angst, but Corrine's able to fight off some of it to help console her.  Shizumaru swears that he will not allow the Gate to open, and this fulfills a Wish contract with Belldandy.  Immediately afterwards, Tsuwabuki trumps away with a Trump Card he didn't have earlier, going to Nanami.  Tsuwabuki had become a sleeper agent for the enemy.  Hiko and Corrine query Shizumaru as to what -really- happened at the Keep; he replies that they were in the Fount for a few seconds.
• Hiko attempts to mindprobe Shizumaru, but Shizumaru tries to strangle Hiko, believing that 'Innocent Priestess Rei' was hurt unjustly by Hiko. Corrine and Juri restrain Shizumaru while Hiko (and then Gabrielle) attempt to fight off/remove whatever had managed to latch into Shizumaru's mind.  Shizumaru calls on the power of the Seed to cause the clothes on Hiko and Corrine to grow (at least the plant fibers). Hiko removes her clothing rapidly, Corrine trump-removes her own but experiences discordant music while doing it. While Hiko keeps trying to fight off the influences in Shizumaru's brain, Shizumaru summons Seaweed monsters to try and fight them.  Juri, Roderick, Rimururu, and Misaki fight off the seaweed monsters while Hiko and Gabrielle continue the combat.  It appears that the seaweed monsters are Chaosian, as every one of them goes up in flame when hit with Juri's patternblade.  Shizumaru tries to force-grow plants out of Hiko's pores.  Hiko tries to knock out Shizumaru; Urd appears and dives into Shizumaru's head to help fight things off.  Corrine then knocks out Shizumaru.  The seaweed monsters stop attacking. Urd exits Shizumaru's brain, and Shizumaru stops the plants from growing out of Hiko.  Gabrielle trumps replacement clothes for Corrine, and Misaki starts bandaging Hiko.  Shizumaru 'apologizes' to Rimururu with a force-5 hug and kiss.  The seaweed monsters are washed away by Roderick.
• Corrine laughs hysterically, and manages to regain some of her wits.  Urd reports that Shizumaru has been ridden by the Black Goat of the Woods (not a Good Thing), and that he's one of the Outsiders.  Gabrielle appears to make conversation easier, and Juri asks Urd on how to keep the Outsiders -out-. Rimururu quickly goes and gets medicine for Shizumaru. Shizumaru tells Rimururu that in exchange for Urd's help, he must let Urd have a chance to court her, at the same time he's courting Rimururu.  Urd tells of the Gate of Revolution being the major flaw in the defenses against the Outsiders, but that the five Icons can be used to close the Gate, with the assistance of the Elder Seal (a 5-pointed star with an eye of flame in the  middle). Unfortuantely, one of the Icons (the Seed of Hope) is now bobbing up and down in the middle of the Font of Power. As it turns out, it was stolen from the Vaults at the same time as the Jewel of Judgement.  The recommendation is made for Shizumaru to walk a Pattern, and fast (to clear out the rest of the bad stuff), but the Seed must be removed from the  Font otherwise it would be used to blow up the Pattern that he walks.  They will have to return to the Keep once more.
• Corrine begins making plans for laying siege to the Keep of the Five Worlds with the Ember military in order to distract the holders so that the Seed can be retrieved.  Unfortuantely, Annadil has learned how to block Gabrielle's effects from the vicinity of the Keep.. she can only get people within 2 day's march of the location. Urd reports that Shizumaru can still use the Seed if he uses it to affect things in the Keep's vicinity, but that if he tries using the power remotely, he would be at serious risk.  Also, as it turns out, Shizu's mind-tampering was unable to be removed by Hiko and Gabrielle (it's unknown if Urd was able to do anything). Gabrielle also reports that the Keep now has been issuing discordant music along with its trumps -- after audio playback, Juri deduces that it's Miki, and that he's been compromised as well.  Urd gives Shizumaru another ring for her to find him by.  Urd then reports (partially) on how to use the Icons to close the Gate once opened, and that Annadil is a living trump (which some folks knew, and some didn't).  The decision is made to head to Ember and fast-time  things... again... so that people can heal and plans can be made. Unfortuantely, Rimururu can't go with them, since Ember's' environment would be hostile to her. Urd departs, to deal with one of Skuld's programming errors.  Corrine has Gabrielle trump in a set of Corrine and Gabrielle trumps for Rimururu to use, and then has Gabrielle take the group (Corrine, Hiko, Juri of Avalon, Roderick, Misaki, Shizumaru... and the Doves) back to Ember.
• Events are in Ember Time, which is faster than Amber Time
• Shizumaru, Corrine, and Juri of Avalon have dinner together.  Corrine relates the tale of how she remade Ember, and Juri and Corrine tell of their adventures across the universes.
• Shizumaru goes to the Ember Magician's Guild to commission a magic seed bag from Lady Funaho.  Corrine receives reports of a dissapearing Shadow, sudden heatwave in Ember, and droughts in LC kingdoms, all occuring at the same time.  She also hears of a bandit assault in Agrabah, and Pirate raiding on the Lava seas, which she pledges some Ember military support.  She also hears of increased Efreeti trade in LC kingdoms, which is odd 'cause it's not that easy to capture them.
• Corrine tries to trump Queen Moire, and gets intercepted by Miki's trump jamming... and a Shadow Storm is forced through.  Corrine manages to neutralize it, but the office is lost.  Gabrielle observes that the Storm was Water-Pattern and 'Clear'(Primal)-Pattern charged --  hinting at Derith's influence in things.  They trump to the Badlands, and try to contact Yuriko, with much the same luck.  Corrine has Gabrielle map out how far the discordant musical blocking effect reaches.
• Corrine meets with some new traders out of shadow, using a Broken Metal Imprint, from a Shadow called "Calormen", serving the Tisroc of Calormen.  They stay for a while, sell their trade goods, buy maps and books, and depart -- common first-contact behavior for traders... or spies.
• Gabrielle reports that the trump-jamming effect reaches out just past the Lava Circle, effectively cutting them off from further fast-communication.
• Juri of Avalon attempts to contact Gideon via trump in the Fire Pattern chamber.  She is unable to break through, but Gideon returns her call long enough to let her know she's coming.  A Shadow Storm erupts, but is quickly nullified.  The group heads up to Corrine's workshops and chat for a bit.  Gabrielle sets time back to normal so that Gideon can arrive.
• Urd arrives for a date with Shizumaru.
• Gideon arrives -- by securing the assistance of the Sign of the Logrus.  Gabrielle and the Sign have a face-off  which gets defused, the Sign recognizes Urd, and then drops off a copy of the Prophesies of the Serpent before departing.  Gabrielle sets Ember back to fast-time.
• The group goes to read the Prophesies of the Serpent, starting with Miki's chapter.  They get some possible insights to countering the jamming and freeing him from Annadil's control, but in trying to circumvent the jamming to reach Juri at sea, Gabrielle gets assaulted and her interior hardware damaged.
• Juri of Avalon, somewhere around here, gets her brain checked out and cleaned by Mia Asua in Ember.
• Corrine spends the next several weeks repairing Gabrielle.
• Day 69
• Shaft wakes up.  He sets his Pattern to one day = 1 amber hour. And then he has a big-ass orgy
• Events in Ember:
• The group re-rendevous to read more prophesies.  Derith's prophesy is read, revealing his misguided goals to 'free' Rebma from 'Slavery' to Amber, and Kozue's prophesy is read, revealing some of her motivations for going renegade, yet still offering hope for her redemption. A phoenix arrives, bearing a message for Corrine, Hiko, Juri of Avalon, and Miki from Juri -- her last messages before being pulled under by a whirlpool that started when Gabrielle tried to contact her.  Decision is made to have Hiko fire-teleport herself, Corrine, Lonz, and Funaho down to Amber to do fact-finding and diplomacy.
• Corrine resets the time rate in Ember to 1-1.  The four head down to Amber, via the kitchens.  Hiko goes to see Travis, while Corrine goes to talk with Yuriko.
• Hiko gains information about the Circle of the Elements and their order from Haruka of Harad's notes.  She also obtains a book of prophesy interpretations written by King Gendo before his death.
• Corrine updates Yuriko and Utena about the Ember situation, and learns of things in Amber.  She announces her current intentions, and then leaves Lonz there as  the Ambassador to Amber.
• Corrine, Hiko, and Funaho reunite in the kitchens.  They  quickly get caught up, and Vash appears, wanting a sandwich.  The possibility of him being the 'prodigal son' and the 'Red Rider' is brought up.
• Corrine, Hiko, and Funaho head to the courtyard, and try to trump Shaft.  They get Shaft PornFest for their troubles.  Corrine tries a trump-bolt near him, and Hiko tries a mental spike and magic, but nothing happens.
• Makoto appears, and he and Corrine and Hiko chat, getting more info on what Shaft had been up to.  They decide to try trumping Shaft again later, and head off to see Fuyutsuki.
• Hiko, Corrine, and Funaho encounter Fuyutsuki with Tylor down in his lab.  Tylor's going through 'Virtual Whack-an-Outsider' therapy.  Corrine manages to get some ideas from Fuyutsuki about how to break through Miki's jamming, which includes an assault on his Trump Conservatory. She also manages to get him to hopefully come up to Ember in a few days to check out Gabrielle.  Hiko then asks/demands of Fuyutsuki on how to close the Gate should it open -- Fuyutsuki manages to get around his Geas enough to tell the steps on how to do it.
• Hiko, Corrine, and Funaho go to see Madoka, who's more than willing to help them recover Miki.
• Shaft finally stops his months-long stag party in Shamber, and while in the bathroom encounters Kasumi the Axe Murdering Psycho Biker Slut, who's come to castrate him.  He manages to escape with his items, but then encounters a posse' of Bumpy's goons on the front lawn.  He tries to trump his Trump Armory, but is blocked by Miki's Jamming. He uses the Flawed Embran Fire DemiJewel to turn magic back on so that he can use his cloak of invisibility (after almost being turned into neutronium), and wreaks chaos among them. Kasumi joins in.  After Bumpy's men are dead, he and Kasumi manage to free the guests from the burning house. Shaft then learns that Kasumi the AMPBS is the 'Leather Knight of Shamber', incarnate defender of his Pattern, bound to Kasumi of Amber.  Shaft and the Leather Knight motorcycle back to Amber.
• Shizumaru and Juri of Avalon talk about VENIR 2.0 and Urd while the rest are in Amber.
• Corrine and Hiko attempt to trump gate to the Rebma Steps.  However, they get a gateway to the void in the process, sucking everything in.  Corrine, Hiko, and Funaho manage not to be lost, but countermeasures fail until Fuyutsuki is called, who plugs the hole with 5 giant robots.  He hammers them into shape, and then uses the Elder Sign to seal the rift.  He informs Corrine and Hiko about Rebma not being there anymore, hence the void, and the existance of another Pattern. He also gives Hiko the crayon that he used to draw the Elder Sign.
• People try to puzzle out who drew this new Pattern, and what happened to Rebma.  Corrine trumps her rangers to investigate the coastline.  Hiko chats with Gil-Galad about his experiences.  Corrine gives Yuriko some of her Arden trumps so that she can stay in contact with the Rangers.
• Corrine tries to trump Shaft.  She gets Shaft, the Leather Knight, and her motorcycle.  Many wacky hyjinks ensue when Kasumi finds out, but Corrine is able to determine that both Shaft, the Leather Knight, and Amber's Kasumi have a Flawed Fire Pattern imprint.  Apparently, it was -Shaft- who drew the Flawed Fire Pattern out in Shadow.  And worse off, the Flawed Embran DemiJewel of Fire and Justice have been stolen, replaced with cheap copies.  Hiko trumps the Green Knight for advice, but finds out that with the  imbalance in Reality, Arden and the Green Knight are in danger of burning up.  She heads to Arden to help set up a 'drain heat' spell to protect the forest and her love.
• Corrine queries Shaft more on the circumstances of the drawing of his pattern.  Shaft tries to retrieve the Flawed DemiJewel through his link to it, but attracts the attentions of a construct that had been built around it.  Corrine calls on Gabrielle's help to defuse the situation.  Gabrielle appears, and being a construct built around a -Real- Elemental Jewel, and not a flawed copy, is more than handily capable of overpowering  'MORGENSTERN'.
• Corrine introduces Gabrielle to the rest of the family.  Shaft has troubles coping with the fact that  Gabrielle is now all grown up.  Gideon is brought through via Gabrielle, and goes with Anthy, Nanami, and Corrine to discuss options on the Rebman situation.
• Gideon proposes to have a new Water Pattern drawn, given the current lack of Rebma and the doubtfulness of it having survived.  Gideon goes off to study more about this option, while Corrine checks with the Grey Knight, who confirms that it's either been destroyed or removed out of range of power of the other Patterns.  Her Rangers report that the coastline has been flooded two miles in from Rebma, and that the storm over  the area is a Shadow Storm that's slowly dying down -- hopefully.
• Hiko finishes the setup of her 'heat drain' spell to protect Arden, using her manifestation ring (worn by the Green Knight) to power it.  The Green Knight proposes to Hiko, and she accepts.  That night is spent in premarital bliss.
• Shaft gets his brain scrubbed out by Nanami, though he has doubts about the procedure's success due to her desire to get the porn cleaned out.  He trumps Fuyutsuki, who acts oddly while stating he's working on checking the Primal Pattern, which freaks Shaft out.  He trumps Corrine, and then meets with her, who examines the trump of Fuyutsuk, which is normal.  Corrine has Gabrielle gate Mia to Amber to check Shaft's head, and Mia runs up against the same situation that Nanami did.  However, aside from the porn, she detects no mental tampering.
• Shaft goes off to talk with Kasumi
• Corrine goes and has Gabrielle gate Misaki, Juri of Avalon, Shizumaru, and Roderick to Amber, and briefs them on the day's events and decisions.  Juri requests information on the Trump Conservatory, which Corrine does not have, so they decide to have breakfast with Madoka and Anthy to get information.
• Day 70
• Corrine, Misaki, Shizumaru, Juri of Avalon, Roderick, and Shaft have breakfast with Madoka and Anthy.  Hiko is trumped in soon after.  The group gets information about Miki's Trump Conservatory from Madoka, and then discussion turns to whom 'The one he didn't want' and  'The one he couldn't have' could be in Miki's prophesy.  Although the idea that Anthy could be the latter is floated, it's shot down.  However, Juri's wedding presents to Miki, as well as Corrine's own memories as to her sister's relationships, strongly hint that it was JURI of Amber whom Miki 'couldn't have', and that the feeling may very well have been mutual.  It is assumed that Kozue is 'the one he didn't want', due to her more-than-sisterly advances.
• Madoka uses her first wish with the Cow to retrieve Juri.  Nothing obvious happens.
• Mikage is retrieved via Trump, and Hiko, Gabrielle, Nagisa, and Mikage mind-link with the cow to rescue Juri (which fails, and reveals an Outsider at the bottom of the whirlpool).  Mikage abruptly departs, to counter a Chaosian Zepplin attack on his construct.
• Tsuwabuki the Living Trump attempts to kill Corrine, then Anthy (his true target).  Misaki is shot during this, and Gabrielle is temporarily assaulted with a water-based shadow-storm.  She does better this time around, however.
• Corrine takes Misaki to the Infirmary, and tries to trump back, but a Shadow Storm erupts, which she neutralizes.  She hoofs her way back to the group.
• Tsuwabuki is subdued.  Information is gathered about the keep of the five worlds from his mind, and Anthy reveals her parentage and relations to Annadil.  The true original goals of Annadil/Akio are revealed --the Redrawing of the LOGRUS, which he hopes to accomplish via opening the Gate of Revolution (apparently, his mind became unhinged after talking with too many Brands in the Abyss.)
• A serendipitious trump-music performance of 'Red Right Hand' by Gabrielle establishes a trump connection with Prince Bleys of Roderick's Amber.  There's some quick communication, and Roderick admits his falling in love with Juri of Avalon.
• Further testing demonstrates that transportation is possible as well.  The group heads to the conservatory to use the musical trumps to retreieve Kozue and Juri in order to free Miki.
• The first performance works, allowing them to retrieve Kozue.  However, Jamming begins to develop, and Shaft is left stranded on Kozue's ship.
• The group discusses the next step.  Kozue reveals that both her fleet, and Juri's, were caught in the same whirlpool over Rebma.  The Prophesies of the Serpent are finally revealed to the rest of the group, and then Mikage, Anthy, Gabrielle, Juri of Avalon, Kozue, and Madoka sing to retreive Miki, engaging in a battle of music and mind for him.  The Conservatory is totaled, but Miki is retrieved and the Jamming stopped.
• The group tries to trump Juri.  No response.
• Nanami takes Tsuwabuki off to be healed.  Utena, Gil-Galad, and Mikage head down to the Infirmary to try and determine Mikage's parentage.
• Juri of Avalon, Madoka, and Kozue take Miki off to his room to rest and heal.
• Hiko goes off to try and apologize to Nanami (the first attempt).  She then heads off to Arden to be with the Green Knight.
• Corrine meets with Juri of Avalon in Miki's room.  Further discussion gets interrupted by a trump call from Shaft.  Shaft requests a way to get out the rest of Kozue's crew, and a flight-capable mage to help him investigate the whirlpool.  Corrine provides both, via Gabrielle.
• Corrine and Juri of Avalon then head to the Infirmary to check on Misaki.  They discuss things about Mikage's  parentage, and then Shaft trump-contacts Corrine, who reports on the failure of his mission and the death of Minako, the mage Corrine provided.
• Corrine and Juri of Avalon help Makoto clean up the Conservatory.  During this, Corrine gets a report from Gabrielle on the state of things, and tells her to get the troops ready for shipping (as well as warnings that Gabrielle's reaching her limit as far as capabilites go.)
• Shaft, Shizumaru, and Hiko arrive in the gardens, where Mikage is talking with Anthy and helping her garden. Shaft headbutts Mikage for having left him on the ship, and harsh words are exchanged.  It is then decided that Shaft and Hiko will attempt to find Justice, and Shizumaru and Mikage will go to the Keep to retrieve the Seed of Hope, and Nagisa will do research on the possibility of drawing a Flawed Water Pattern to compensate for Shaft's new addition and the current loss of Rebma.
• Hiko, Shaft, Ramon, and Keiko hellride to find Justice.   They have various misadventures, including swamp monsters and riding onto a crowded interstate on horseback.
• Corrine talks with Yuriko about what happened, plans for the Keep and Rebma, and gets approval for Ember troop gating, as well as approval to talk with those out in the field.
• Corrine converses with Gabrielle, see how she feels about the possiblity of contacting Amber's GC Naval Allies and  trump-gating their ships to Amberport.  She checks how she's holding up, powerwise, and whether this will have any   effect on the massive trump(or fire)-gating necessary to prepare for the Keep assault.  These are things Gabrielle can do while she is heading for the Keep, arranged through Funaho, Lonz, and Yuriko.
• Corrine has Gabrielle map out how 'close' one can safely Trump or Fire Gate to the Keep of the Five Worlds without Manifestation blockage or Outsider Taint in the Trumps.  (the going estimate is "2 day's march") This information is to be presented at the next day's meeting.
• Corrine has Gabrielle gate about 50-60 Ember naval vessels into Amberport.  They may not be able to GO anywhere, but if/when the Rebma Shadowstorm dies down, then folks will be able to avoid the Rebma Whirlpool and try to invade Amber. (Remainder of the Ember fleet is either on patrol, putting down LC pirates, Emberport defense, or allocated for the Keep assault.)
• Corrine contacts Saionji, updates him, and asks if he needs reinforcements.  Saionji would like a diversionary invasion of Kashfa, which would free him to deal with rebels in Western Harad whose leader claims to be your sister Eowyn.  If you struck at Kashfa, it would force the Kashfans to reduce pressure against Begma.  Corrine arranges with Gaby to gate in Ember troops and Air Support (+ give trumps so Saionji can give orders).  Corrine also tries to dissuade Saionji from going the total-vengeance route if it looks like he's going that way (vis his prophesy), instead encouraging -defeat- of the armies attacking Amber and then peaceful settlement.  As well, she requests that 'Eowyn' be captured for later questioning by Corrine.
• Corrine contacts Touga, updates him, and asks if he needs reinforcements. Touga tells you Talma is under assault by a huge wave of nomads out of shadow fleeing an assault by some sort of 'Red Menace'.  The Talmans could use some heavy backup.  She arranges with Gaby to gate in Ember troops and Air Support, as well as includes extra mages to combat this 'Red Menace'/Red Rider (+ give trumps so Touga can give orders).  Corrine gives an update of things on the mystical front as well.
• Corrine attempts to contact Drake, but he doesn't take the call.
• Corrine contacts Mia and tell her about Minako, and has her relay to the military mages the existance and power of the Elder Sign.  She has her court mage see about distributing it through the military groups assigned to the Keep assault (extremely unlikely that it'll be able to be put to -good- use, but the higher-ups should know, and perhaps have it enscribed on their armor for protection, etc.  Perhaps a few crossbow bolts and swords with it engraved as well?).
• Corrine also has have Mia work on 4 items for the next day, hopefully by morning (or have others assigned to make them) -- two psychic barrier pendants and two emergency-escape spell artifacts.
• Corrine writes a condolence letter for Minako's parents.  She makes funeral arrangements for Minako, and have that set for within the week.
• Corrine has Azaka and Kamidake trumped down from Ember to serve as Corrine's bodyguards while Misaki's recuperating. She also has her silver armor brought down.
• Corrine gives orders to Admiral Sasami aboard the Tsunami to ascend and get an idea of how large the shadow-storm is over Rebma the following day.
• Corrine eats a late dinner.
• Shizumaru trumps Anthy, who is about to ascend to Tir'na-Nog with Mikage so that he can fully attune to the Bag of Winds before the next night of the full moon.  He then goes down to find Gideon at Bill Vincent's workshop to arrange for extra weapons possibilities.  Gideon goes off with Wasyuu in her fast-time shadow to work on this.
• Shizumaru contacts Urd, and they chat.  Urd whips up the design for an Elder Sign Catapult, and tells him more about the the proper use of the Elder Sign, and how it must be empowered (with Magic, Logrus, Trump, or Pattern) to have any effect.
• Mikage and Anthy head to Tir'na-Nog. Anthy uses her Demi-Jewel of Air Powers to stabilize the castle in the sky as they progress through it.  They encounter a masked ball, and then an elevator where Mikage confronts himself.  They briefly see two 'Gendos' duelling, and then reach the Air  Pattern chamber.  Mikage walks the pattern, reliving his path from his first memories of entering Ohotori and his actions which led him to seek to 'Revolutionize the World'.  Meanwhile, Mamiya appears, and tries to reclaim Anthy.  The White Knight of the Air Pattern appears and tries to stop him, but is sucked through a black portal.  Mikage reaches the center of the pattern, now fully attuned to the Bag of Winds, and has it send him behind Mamiya, running him through.  However, Mamiya, a former Abyss Diver, now has Abyss Power, and is not killed.  Mikage and Anthy try to use the winds to force him onto the Pattern, but he escapes, leaving a pack of Feral Brands to die in his wake. The two return to Amber via Alicorn.
• Corrine meets with Juri of Avalon, and the two talk about various subjects.  Corrine admits to her that she now thinks of Juri of Avalon as her spiritual sister, as equally legitimate as her blood-sister, and Juri of Avalon returns the emotion and affirmation.  The two part ways after this talk, Corrine to talk with Anthy, and Juri to talk with Roderick.
• Corrine encounters Anthy in the gardens and helps her with replanting (Amber is being affected by the loss of the Water Pattern).  They chat for a while [To be hopefully continued!]
• Juri of Avalon talks with Roderick about his earlier declaration of love.  Apparently things work out between them, as they spend a very long night making love to one another, involving such things as a desk, a schoolgirl's uniform, an engineer's cap, and various shapeshifting tricks.
• Corrine heads to bed, unaware of the above occurances.
• Gideon and Wasyuu work on Trump Sinks, Pattern/Logrus water-bombs, and Chibi-Cuthulus in a decade in Wasyuu's laboratory shadow.  They also work on a kid, Lian.
• Mikage has a dream sequence relating how Gendo gathered the first settlers of Amber out of Shadow.

• Day 71
• Corrine wakes up, has breakfast with Funaho, and conference with her and Catherine via Trump to get Ember status and info on Keep preps (and spy reports).
• Shizumaru meets with Corrine, and they talk about Mikage for a bit before going to see Juri of Avalon for their planning session.
• Corrine and Shizumaru reach Juri's suites, and wake her and Roderick up.  Juri tries to cover for her recent actions with some success (well, at least Shizumaru doesn't clue in), and then they get the planning session started in Mikage's absence.  Shizumaru presents the plans for the Elder Sign Catapults, which will likely not be used for the Keep assault, but could be adapted to crossbow form, and produced for use in defending Amber. Wasyuu arrives, and presents to them the fruits of hers and Gideon's labors.
• Mikage arrives and presents his information. He has Falme come and introduces him to everyone.
• Late in the morning, the Keep Expeditionary Force sets out.
• Hiko, Shaft, Ramon, and Keiko hellride to find Justice. They find it in MORGENSTERN's construct-shadow, and manage to retrieve it, as well as bend MORGENSTERN to Shaft's will. Of course, in the process, the entire group ends up walking MORGENSTERN's broken pattern and Hiko, Ramon, and Keiko end up becoming MORGENSTERN worshippers for a time, but they are later fixed of this.  Shaft whoops much ass.  Hiko, Ramon, and Keiko trump back to Amber to get their brains fixed, while Shaft stays behind and fast-times MORGENSTERN's shadow to work on equipment and manifestations.
• As it turns out, 'Horatio' was actually Annadil, and responsible for the theft of Justice and the Flawed Demi-Jewel.  It is also revealed to Shaft (and others?) that there are SIX Pattern Blades, one per elemental pattern and one for the primal.  The number of full Logrus Foils is unknown.
• Gabby and Ramon take Keiko to attune to the Fire Jewel and walk the Fire Pattern, so she can get Morgy loving out of her brain.  Hiko goes and patternwalks as well to cleanse her brain.
• Shaft and Hiko trade oaths to each other, and test their blood.  Some of Hiko's blood makes a break for it, so they hunt it down.  They then chat with Anthy about Chaos Blood.
• Shaft checks on the status of his shadow.  MORGENSTERN  informs him that Bumpy is an inherent part of his shadow now, and has built a giant shadow of himself.  At Shaft's command, the Bumpy Statue is sent off into Shadow to hunt Godzilla.
• Hiko travels to Frostspire courtesy of Gabrielle, and sets up a drain heat spell with a MORGENSTERN manifestation to help preserve the country.  She and Rimururu chat while she does this, and then Hiko returns to Amber.
• Shaft hooks up with the Leather Knight, discusses the future of himself with the two Kasumis, and performs the Angelic Cherub Shaft Chorus (don't ask).  He spends the remainder of the evening with her.
• Hiko tries to apologize to Nanami again.  Her attempt rather abjectly fails.
• Hiko talks with Gabrielle about bringing the Pattern Eva down to Amber to hopefully combat Leviathan.  She and Misato then go to Bill Vincent's to ask for help building the adaptor to tweak the Pattern Energy type, depending on the Pattern it's plugged into.  Some of Bumpy's goons come 'round and get teleported to Harad by Gabrielle.
• Gabby starts having cable made for the Pattern EVA.
• Hiko goes and talks to the Green Knight, Lina, Gabrielle and the Grey Knight about setting up a cable and transformer system for the Pattern EVA.
• Hiko talks with Gabrielle about bringing the Pattern Eva down to Amber to hopefully combat Leviathan.  She and Misato then go to Bill Vincent's to ask for help building the adaptor to tweak the Pattern Energy type, depending on the Pattern it's plugged into.
• Shaft researches the abilities of Justice in the castle Library, as well as Patternblades in general.  Shaft practices with Justice a little in the courtyard.
• Shaft has MORGENSTERN send the giant Bumpy The Pimp statue to Amber.
• Shaft goes to talk with Yumi about his Flawed Pattern,  and the mental link between the Kasumi's.  They also discuss Gendo's marital affairs and how he was during his reign; as well as the entire mistress deal.
• Corrine and Mikage talk about Eowyn and past lives the first night of the march, as well as not to give up on dreams.
• Day 72
• Shaft goes down to the Kolvir Pattern chamber to summon a Pattern Ghost of Fuyutsuki to get advice on various situations.  He learns of how to use the power of the Pattern and Logrus against the Outsiders, and that of the Five Children with their Icons, in conjunction with the Elder Sign.  Shaft trumps Anthy to ask what happened to Rebma, and then tells PG-Fuyutsuki the information, who tells him they could use the icons to seal the breach, but that they'd need the True Jewel and Water Jewel to make a new Water Pattern.  Also, once one traveled to Rebma, there would be difficulty getting OUT, since they'd be beyond the bounds of the local Pattern. PG-Fuyutsuki tells Shaft how one needs to be mind-linked with the other Children in order to draw the Elder Sign and close the Gate if it's opened; and that they had best get up to the Pattern Chamber before Annadil does.  Shaft then explains the entire linked-Kasumi problem, and PG-Fuyutsuki suggests using the True Jewel to fine tune the link between the two.
• Shaft has PG-Fuyutsuki summon up a Patternghost of Derith.  Shaft tells Derith about the loss of Rebma.  PG-Derith investgates the situation via Pattern-scrying, and does -not- like what he sees -- that somehow, Rebma is outside of the existing Universe, within reach of the Outsiders but not fully in their grasp. (If the Whirlpool truly was Outsider-Caused, they'd be working on widening it. If they had failed, then the Patterns would close it down, even with Rebma's loss.  Neither of which has happened.)  It allows for minor Outsiders to come through, but not the big ones.  Shaft and PG-Derith come to the conclusion that the real Derith is the reason the opening is half-closed, half-opened, due to an interrupted attempt to protect Rebma.  The Jewel of Judgement is deduced to be at the bottom of the Whirlpool, but not in the claws of the Outsiders.  The Water Jewel, on the other hand, is waiting for Derith's son to grow up and learn to move through Shadow to find it.
• Shaft has himself Pattern Teleported to a safe-to-obtain Flawed Water Jewel -- he ends up in a universe where he is a major Rap star.  He buys the Flawed Jewel from the Osa-P Jewelry Store with "Ota the Hammer"'s checkbook, then trumps out.
• Shaft has MORGENSTERN evaluate the Flawed Water Jewel, and then he and Kasumi and the Leather Knight have a heart to heart talk over the linked-Kasumi situation.
• The Keep Assault Group (Shizumaru, Mikage, Corrine, Juri of Avalon, Roderick, Azaka, Kamidake, etc) continue marching towards the Keep of the Five Worlds, unaware of the slow-time Shadows they are being put into along the way.  The army is slowly nibbled away by monstrosities and odd creatures.
• In the early afternoon, Hiko begins laying cable for the Pattern EVA.
• Day 73
• Hiko finishes laying cable across Arden to the shore.
• Due to Time Dilation, this Event overlaps into Day 74.  The Keep Assault Group keeps marching.  They begin to get in range of the 'Keep', although there is a large amount of Logrus Energy present.  They get closer, and get reports of an unknown figure; Falme informs them it could possibly be CATS the Renegade, a chaosian mercernary.  Shizumaru contacts Urd, and learns that the shadow they are in is being manipulated by the Logrus to slow down time and to create a null-magic bubble around the 'Keep'.  Corrine and Urd start working to nullify the effects.  The time gradient is reset to something more favorable, but the attempt to counter the anti-magic area is met with resistance.  Mikage warns Juri of the existance of Mamiya, Anthy's son, who now wields Abyss Power.  Juri starts using the Spoon of Dworkin to generate an anti-chaos field around the group, but CATS in turn sets off a Primal Chaos detonation around the False Keep.  Corrine, Mikage, Urd, and Roderick boost Juri's psyche to power the Spoon, which generates a counter-detonation of pure Order.  The Primal Chaos consumes half the ground forces and a third of the air force before it is wiped out by the Pattern-Charged explosion.
• Day 74
• The Keep Expeditionary Force leaves the False Keep.  The True Keep is finally sighted, the Seed still inside the Font.  The group marches onward through the Metal shadow.
• Battle of the Keep of the Five Worlds:  Due to Time Dilation, some of this lasts into Day 75.
• The group reaches the Keep, finally.  The air force starts its strikes, while the commando groups head for the Forest shadow.  Corrine keeps working on trying to fix the time gradient to be favorable.  The commando groups get ambushed in the forest, and the air force has to deal with itself thanks to the Trump Elementals, but trump sinks and Chibi-Cthulhu's help to counteract that threat. Seed packets are also tossed into the Keep.
• The Army of the Black Unicorn surges out of a portal in front of the Keep, led by Black Unicorn Benedict, wearing a silver arm.  BU-Corwin, BU-Benedict, and BU-Bleys ride to confront Corrine, Juri, and Roderick while the two main armies engage.
• Shizumaru triggers the growth of the launched plants, capturing anyone hiding inside the Keep courtyard.
• Juri duels with Benedict, while Roderick deals with the doppleganger of his father.  Corrine has Azaka and Kamidake confront BU-Corwin while she continues to try to fiddle with the time gradients, which are being actively shoved to unfavorable by their opponents.  Corrine's bodyguards are taken out (Kamidake, fatally), and then Corwin turns to face Corrine.  Corrine manages to seperate BU-Corwin from Greyswandir, and then the two take turns beating the crap out of each other.
• Mikage takes control of the winds around the Keep, deflecting missile fire from the air force.  A giant wooden hand forms within the Font, trying to grab Shizumaru, and Mikage uses the winds to blow the Seed out of the font, but BU-Fiona grabs a hold of it by magic as a Shub-Niggurath-possessed forest-woman forms out of BU-Flora's carniverous trees and advances on the Keep.
• Shizumaru tosses the Golden Acorn into the Keep, and triggers its growth, granting him total and absolute control over the Keep's reality, even as the Outsiders fights it.  He shuts down Trump and Magic around the Keep, crippling the Trump Elementals and magic users in the battle.  The giant Forest-Woman tries to capture Shizumaru and batter away the Golden Tree as BU-Fiona flees with the Seed into the Keep, intending to drop it into a sun.
• Roderick temporarily gets the upper hand over BU-Bleys, shapeshifting to demon form to attack him.  BU-Bleys chops off Roderick's left foot and part of his leg.  Juri takes injuries from BU-Benedict, but manages finally to run him through a lung.  Corrine manages to throw BU-Corwin off long enough for Juri to confront him.
• Shizumaru, Falme, and Mikage pursue after BU-Fiona, but are forced to split up somewhat.  Shizumaru goes after the Seed, Mikage attempts to mind-dominate Shub-Niggurath, and then Falme uses the Logrus to throw the Giant Plant Woman into the Rebma Whirlpool.
• Corrine tries to get healing done, but the two soldiers that attempt to patch her wounds are taken out by silver crossbow bolts, courtesy of BU-Caine.  Corrine opens up with crossbow and Whalekiller manifestation forms, getting him to run but not really hitting him (and taking out some of her own forces in the process).
• Shizumaru runs into the Keep, and gets suckerpunched by BU-Gerard.  He recovers, however, and tosses bamboo seeds at BU-Gerard for a groin shot.  Mikage gets his arms broken as he eats BU-Gerard's brain.  Shizumaru uses his link to the Seed to call it to him, and then rushes out of the Keep.  BU-Dierdre confronts Shizumaru, and Shizumaru grows a forest around her as BU-Brand tries to eat Mikage's brain.  Falme uses the Logrus to toss BU-Brand into the forest.  Shizumaru gets ambused by 'Team Rebma' (BU-Random and Llewella) while  BU-Julian advances on their position.  He uses another rapidly-grown forest to escape and find a safe position with which to create and empower an Elder Seal.
• Connection is reestablished with Gabrielle, as Wasyuu and Gideon fly to the rescue with the Bedpirates of Penzance.  Corrine Patternfire Immolates BU-Caine, who burns and dies. (wether this is a permanent state is anybody's guess. Hey, this is -Caine- we're talking about.)  Juri takes down BU-Corwin with Elder Sign crossbow bolts to the throat and eye.  Juri fights BU-Bleys, and leads him on to a patch of grass which is actually a shapeshifted Roderick, who eats BU-Bleys's leg in demonform, giving Juri the chance to run him through and vivesect him.
• BU-Dierdre, Random, Llewella, and Julian once again try to attack Shizumaru, but he vanishes by editing up a hole to escape through.  Urd appears, and flies to assist Shizumaru, though due to a mistimed magic switchoff, she gets trampled by Morgenstern and run through by BU-Julian. However, Shizumaru and Falme manage to restrain BU-Julian, and Shizumaru beheads him.
• BU-Benedict recovers, and tries to attack Juri in a rush, but Juri fires on him with her Elder Sign crossbow and Corrine immolates him with Pattern Fire, killing him. Corrine, Juri, and Roderick regroup, and start making their way to the Keep (after Juri claims BU-Benedict's silver arm as a trophy.)  Leaderless, the Army of the Black Unicorn begins to collapse under combined Bedpirate and Emberite attack.
• Gideon goes off to deal with BU-Fiona, chasing her into the Fire Shadow.  Wasyuu temporarily neutralizes the flames, allowing Gideon to safely pursue, but BU-Fiona escapes, teleporting out.
• BU-Ghostwheel appears, and Shizumaru shuts off Trump, shutting him down.  He then edits up diamond encasements for BU-Random and Llewella.  BU-Brand tries to sneak up on Shizumaru twice, and as he tries to eat Shizu's brain, Urd runs him through with a flaming sword as Juri shoots him with a Elder Sign crossbow bolt.  Urd makes shashimi out of BU-Brand.
• BU-Dierdre escapes, leaping into the ocean.
• Shaft plays one-on-one Basketball with Utena after dinner over whether or not he can marry both Kasumi and the Leather Knight. Shaft wins, and Utena therefore has to give her blessing for the marraige whether or not Tylor approves.
• Shaft gives the Flawed DemiJewel to Nagisa, and gives some advice on what NOT to do when drawing one's own Pattern.  The two then part ways.  He asks MORGENSTERN to write up a pamphlet about how Kasumi and the Leather Knight are linked, so they can be considered one person. He attempts to contact the Leather Knight, but she's engaged in hand-to-hand combat.  Before Shaft can attempt to assist, the connection is blocked to Pattern and Trump. Shaft contacts Yumi, and gets her assistance.  The two head off via MORGENSTERN to get close to the Leather Knight's position.
• Shaft and Yumi move through technological Shadows to try and rescue the Leather Knight, that become progressively more hostile to Shaft's continued well being until they reach the warehouse that the Leather Knight is battling Chaosians.  While Yumi, hidden by the Cloak of Invisibility, deals with the land, sea, and air forces attempting to close in on them, Shaft heads inside and tries to rescue the Leather Knight.  It soon becomes clear that this is an ambush for Shaft, and while he's capable of making more than sufficent amount of damage, he is eventually captured by Spike Spiegel of the Bebop, a Chaosian bounty hunter.  The Leather Knight is capable of teleporting back to the Shamber Pattern, and does so in the confusion.
• Day 75
• Bebop Time Frame (Early morning in Amber is night on the Bebop):
• Shaft wakes up on the Bebop, stripped of all items. Faye Valentine meets with Shaft, wearing the Valar blade, and tells him something of what he supposedly did to get Lord Lowen of Helgram to put a hundred-ton tre-stone bounty on his head.  Edward appears, feeds Shaft, and tells more of what Shaft supposedly did.  During the night, he manages to achieve contact with his flawed DemiJewel, and through it communicate with the Leather Knight and MORGENSTERN.  He has the Leather Knight work on finding Yumi, and then has his Shamber's reality adjusted so that interstellar travel is possible.  Once that is done, he has MORGENSTERN start working on a rescue ship.
• Shaft learns from Jet Black of the Bebop that they put a lot of work into trying to capture Shaft, though some things weren't matching up in the reports.  They strike up a decent conversation, and Shaft manages to convince Jet to check if it really WAS him who messed up Lord Lowen to become a bandaged freak (since Shaft at the time was retrieving Justice from Morgoth).  Edward starts a search for Maeglin, who had met Shaft at the beginning of the adventure, while the Bebop continues its cruise towards Chaos.
• Keep Time Frame (Fast Timed)
• The Siege of the Keep of the Five Worlds finally ends, with the Amber/Ember/etc forces victorious, though not without some cost.  Shizumaru shifts the time gradient of the Keep so that the survivors can recover and fortify the Keep itself.  Wasyuu begins treating people's wounds, and Juri and Roderick go to claim loot from the BU-Elder's bodies.
• Gideon, Urd, Shizumaru, and Corrine work on reinforcing the Elder Seal, in preparation for more thorough measures later on.
• The totals of the deceased and survivors of the Keep assault is tallied.  While Kamidake is dead, the rest of Corrine's close staff that accompanied her to the Keep has survived (Ayeka, Mia, Arshes, Haruka, Sparky) and can take advantage of the fast time to heal up the survivors. Corrine immolates the deceased Black Unicorn troops, and has Mikage use the winds to lift the ashes to the Wood Shadow.
• Corrine checks in with Ember, and finds out that invaders from Shadow are overrunning the Lava Circle kingdoms, while a fleet is sailing its way through to Ember proper.  Asking around and questioning Falme determines that it is likely House Darios of Chaos that is making the attack, who is a part of the group that is in opposition to the King of Chaos, which is the 'All Out War on Amber so We Can Rule the Universe Alone' faction. (though, in reality, King Ishmael is just a puppet of Annadil, and this is just political manuevering to keep his hands clean.)  Corrine arranges for the troops to return to Ember once they're healed, since they're needed more there than at the Keep.
• Juri talks with Shizumaru after things become more stable, and then has 'The Talk' with him.  She writes up a short list of things to do for Foreplay, which Shizumaru then studies with much trepidation.
• Juri goes to find Corrine, to help cheer her up.  She relates The Talk to Shizumaru after Corrine expresses her own worries, and Corrine asks for a copy of the list from Juri.  Juri then explains more about her own parentage and life to Corrine.  Corrine, in much better spirits after Juri heads off, trumps Amber and gets the mixed news about the Rebma, north, and south situations.  Corrine trumps the Red Knight, and convinces him to come to the Keep while milleseconds pass in Ember, so that she can properly console him over the loss of the White Knight and Blue Knight.  This consolation becomes increasingly more intimate as the days progress before the Red Knight needs to return to Ember.
• Mikage returns to Amber after checking out the various  claimed goods for magical traps and such, and after a goodbye chat with Corrine.
• Gideon, Corrine, Shizumaru, and others work on building a Construct out of the Golden Tree, the Flawed DemiJewel of Wood, and the Flawed Jewel of Judgement, so as to better protect the Keep from attack by hostile forces and to allow Shizumaru to tap its powers through Shadow.
• Corrine and Gideon talk about various subjects during  their time at the Keep.  They discuss the building of Kafuin the Construct and tapping elemental shadows to help power the Elder Sign.  They then talk a bit about their family relations, and agree to exchange trump research if they're capable of communicating after crossing the universes.  The possibility of visiting Avalon is mentioned, and then Corrine asks Gideon about Darako.  Things turn more melencholy from there, as Gideon discusses Darako from his perspective, and Corrine does a  performance of "Scoring" (by boa) in Darako's memory.
• Juri of Avalon and Roderick take Sparky back to Amber in  preparation for things.
• Corrine and Shizumaru return to Arden from the Keep (still in fasttime so that Gideon can continue work on Kafuin.) along with Misaki and Azaka.  The Black Moon (aka  Morrslieb, or Ghroth, an Outsider) appears over Arden,  slowly moving over the sky and spitting into Arden, corrupting everything the spittle hits.  Corrine calls her rangers to organize them to cut off the damage.  She and  Shizumaru then walk the Wood Pattern of Arden... which proves to be an EXTREMELY stupid thing for Corrine to do, as having redrawn the Fire Pattern, she now serves as a conduit for Fire Pattern energy -- and Wood -burns-. However, she is strong enough to make it through the walk without being killed, even though she loses all the items she was carrying (save Julian's  armor, which was Flawed Wood Demi-Jewel reinforced).  The two finish the walk, and Corrine collapses, unconcious.  The Wood Pattern teleports Corrine away -- into the ocean near the Rebma Vortex.
• Shizumaru desperately tries to find Corrine, using the  powers of the Seed as the Wood Pattern sparks around him. He  is unsuccessful, and trumps Miki to leave the Wood Pattern before it gets damaged further.  He and Miki and Gabrielle consult, and Gabrielle manages to track down Corrine somewhere  near the Vortex.  Shizumaru contacts Nagisa, and the two of  them and Gabrielle teleport to the waters near the Vortex.  They fight their way through hordes of Deep Ones, then find Corrine just as Dread Cthulhu approaches.  Shizumaru calls on Urd at the last moment, and the four of them teleport back to the fasttimed Keep.
• Keep Time Frame (Fast Timed)
• Nagisa and Gabrielle manage to bring Corrine from the  brink of brain-death.  Juri and Roderick are quickly trumped in.  However, when Corrine recovers... she starts believing she's Darako of Avalon (based on Corrine's -memories- of Darako, which aren't very good, based on Juri of Avalon's stories).  Roderick shapeshifts into Tess (his mother, and that of Avalon) so that they can knock Corrine out and then work on repairing her memories before she can develop multiple personality syndrome. A trump-powered flying train  attempts to attack the Keep (sent by Black-Unicorn Amber), but  Urd and Kafuin are capable of stopping it.  Juri, 'Tess', Shizumaru, Gabrielle, and Urd then enter Corrine's mindscape.
• The Fires of Memory:
• Within Corrine's mindscape, the group encounters 5-year-old Corrine of Amber, Corrine the Scourge of the Cimbri, Corrine Arisugawa of Paris, and Queen Corrine daughter of Queen Shayla of Ember; each personality based on an aspect of Corrine's life that her fractured memories have  coalesced around, incomplete.  Gabrielle is able to restore the missing memories thanks to her ties to the Fire Pattern (albeit only up to the point of her last walking the Fire Pattern pre-Amber return from Ember.) and Juri of Avalon's convincing Corrine to drink them. However, this leaves two  personalities left -- an amalgam of Corrine's memories and perceptions of Juri of Amber and Juri of Avalon, and Darako.  'Juri' and Darako are encountered in the middle of the Duel Arena over the Abyss, fighting.
• Juri and Gabrielle head back down the stairs to try and stop Tomas and Mikage from interrupting things (while Urd and Shizumaru 'punch out' of the vision), while Tess tries to talk 'Juri' and Darako down from fighting one another. Juri and Gabrielle fight Tomas and Abyss-Mikage, and manage to defeat them (thanks to a Cameo appearance by Prince Julian of Gumi-Amber).  'Tess' is able to convince the two figments to drink the memory brews, and 'Juri' accepts her state as a figment of Corrine's imagination. Darako, however, doesn't, and runs 'Tess' through before Juri can save her.  Darako  breaks down in shock, and is put to sleep by 'Tess'.  Gabrielle carries Darako off to a simulation of Avalon within  her systems.
• Juri and 'Tess' have a last moment's discussion on  vengeance, justice, punishment, healing and forgiveness before 'Tess' dies.  Juri performs CPR, and 'Tess' turns  back into Roderick.  Gabrielle sends them back outside to the waking world, where Corrine wakes up, confused but at least with most of her memories.  Corrine begins the work of trying to catch up with what had happened.
• Mikage talks with Utena via trump, who is with Tylor trying to force back the Shadow Storm over the Rebma Whirlpool with the Metal Jewel. Arrangements are made for meeting at Dinnertime with the rest to make final plans.
• Mikage meets with Anthy and Travis, who are discussing what to do about an encroaching red psychic attack fungus from outside of Talma.  While this Red Death may be counterable, given sufficent time and searching for a countermeasure, there is insufficent time/resources to do so at the moment, given Annadil's potential opening of the Gate that night.  Fortunately, it is estimated that it will not reach Arden immediately.  A propesy relating to that night hints that somebody (CATS, perhaps?) will be lying in wait at the stairs to Tir'na Nog.  Mikage expresses his misgivings about the ability of the Children to work together in sealing the Gate should it be opened.
• In the Keep TimeFrame:
• Shizumaru heads back to Amber breifly to pick up books on  patternblades and Logrusfoils from the castle library.   He returns to the Keep, and he and Corrine pour over them, while Corrine continues to take notes, make contingency plans, and re-learn what she had forgotten over the past days/months.
• A worried Corrine talks with Juri about what they experienced in her mindscape, and about her own lack of  memories of the time in Amber before the Keep Assault, and the  Keep Assault proper.  Juri manages to calm Corrine's fears enough so that she can go back to sleep.  Corrine also finds out the circumstances of how she got Juri's foreplay list.
• Mikage goes to see Nanami, Wakaba, and Gil-Galad, who are busily enchanting items for those who will participate in the assault and defend the castle.  Mikage shows off BU-Gerard's Horn, which can forge Unicorn Paths/etc through Shadow for others to travel, and BU-Bleys's spikard, which allow him to conjure faster.  He and Gil-Galad talk, and then Mikage assists in conjuration for the rest of the afternoon.
• In the Keep TimeFrame:
• Shizumaru searches for Lord Totoro and Haohmaru remotely in Lipun, using remote-controlled wood golems and a Kafuin manifestation.  He finds his home totally missing, and makes contact with Totoro, who agrees to help Arden with controlling the damage caused by the Black Moon.  He makes contact with Haohmaru, who tells of some of the political troubles of Lipun, as well as the dissapearance of Shizumaru's house.   Roderick translates for Totoro back at the Keep, who explains that the lack of translation is because Shizumaru did not recently drink from the pond from before.
• Juri and Roderick do some last-minute preparations again   before returning to Amber.  Roderick gives Juri several items for the coming battle, and they talk about what they're getting into with the final battle, and happened inside Corrine's head.  After some more commiseration, they make out.
• Bebop Time Frame (Early morning in Amber is night on the Bebop):
• Shaft gets repantsed by Radical Edward.  MORGENSTERN informs Shaft that the Funk Fleet is approaching.  He tries to convince Jet that he can use Justice to confirm that he's telling the truth, but Jet doesn't want to take any chances.  The Funk Fleet attacks, and during the confusion Ein gives Shaft the key to get out of his bonds.  Shaft then breaks out through the cell's air vents (as he magic-negated and logrus-negated the door, shutting it down).  He enters the living room of the Bebop, and Ein  manages to open the door to the cell.  Shaft follows Ein to a weapon's locker (where he grabs some stuff), then to Spike's room.  He finds Justice under the bed, as well as a note from Yumi for him to meet her at the Bebop's shuttlebay.  A bucket of water reveals herself as Yumi. They escape in one of the Bebop's ships, flying out into the battle.  Radical Edward apparently hacked the ships of the Funk Fleet so that they'd  attack each other, and not the Bebop.
• Corrine, Juri, Shizumaru, Roderick, Haohmaru and Totoro head back to Amber proper, while Gideon stays back to do last-minute preparations at the Keep.
• Shizumaru trump-calls Rimururu one last time before the Children head down to the Kolvir Pattern chamber.  He tells Rimururu of what happened at the Keep, the two kiss, and then Shizumaru cuts the contact to join the rest.
• Shaft has MORGENSTERN boost his Chaos Negation Power word on the Bebop.  The Bebop shuts down, but also shuts down the ship he and Yumi are flying in, and warps the chaosian  reality around them.  MORGENSTERN's half of the Funk Fleet blows up, the Bebop escapes via the Logrus, and they manage to escape courtesy of MORGENSTERN before the other half of the  Funk Fleet can destroy them.
• Shaft and Yumi end up in orbit over North America in Shamber.  He finds out that it's just after sunset in Amber, and has the editwizard adjust the time gradient (1 year shamber == 1 second Amber) so he can recouperate from his losses.  He touches base with the Leather Knight, who will be staying by the Shamber Pattern to protect it while Shaft's in Amber.  Shaft also finds out that Amber is temporarily blocking trumps to likely keep Living Trumps out.  He does manage to contact Shinobu, however.
• The Final Battle.  People move into their positions.
• Corrine, Juri, and Roderick head up to secure the stairs of Tir'na-Nog.  Corrine keeps her senses open, and picks up chaosian rocks which don't react when she tries to trump them.  Blood-creature worms invade the elite guard accompanying them, and they begin to fight among themselves.  The rocks reveal themselves to be Rock-blood-creatures, who attack with Logrus; Juri and Corrine and Roderick and the rest attempt to fight them. Corrine starts trying to use the Spoon of Dworkin to  negate the Chaos-based creatures around them.  CATS appears in the form of a huge black dragon, and attacks the group.  Juri and Corrine counterattack as the Black Moon slides across the sun.
• Gil-Galad, Nanami, Tylor, Anthy, Vash, Utena, Wakaba, and the Five Children (minus one) head down to the Pattern Chamber.  Tylor carries the Demi-Jewel of Metal, and Anthy bears the Demi-Jewel of Air set in a coronet upon her brow.  Nanami cleans the Kolvir pattern chamber of hidden lurkers with fire and lightning.  Those who can walk the Pattern do so.  Shizumaru tries to trump Haohmaru once he reaches the center, but Haohmaru instead impales Vash.  However, they mange to subdue Haohmaru and heal  Vash.  The eclipse is reported, and the group teleports to the Pattern Chamber (and center of the Pattern) at Tir'na'nog.
• Tir'na-nog forms in the false night. Corrine checks that  the stairs have formed, and has Gabrielle relay to the others that the city in the sky has solidified. CATS-the-dragon breathes fire, and immolates a third of   the guards there.  CATS then spits Primal Chaos at the  group.  Corrine and Gabrielle boost the power of the Spoon to negate the Primal Chaos as she runs towards Juri and Roderick.   Though a good portion of the mountain around the Tir'na-nog  steps get eliminated, Juri and Corrine and Roderick (and a handful of others) survive.  CATS shifts to a werewolf form, and tries to attack them again after shattering the stairs and  climbing up the mountain.
• A road forms among the clouds, and a '28 Ford drives along it towards Tir'na-nog, running over flying Annadils in the process.
• The Air Pattern chamber group sets up preparations.  Mikage  and Anthy head for the center of the Pattern, as well as Gil-Galad and Nanami.  Mikage and Anthy drop down to the Chamber of Revolution.  Hiko, Shizumaru, and Nagisa hide in the Air Pattern Chamber.  El Ravager, Teflon Billy, Knuckles, Justina, and Chelsea the Cow burst into the Pattern chamber and start attacking Nagisa, Hiko, and Shizumaru, coming to try and capture Shizumaru.  They fight.
• Falme joins the group on the mountain, as the Black Moon  resumes spitting, hordes of Byakhee fly in from space to attack the Ember Air Forces, and Feral Brands appear to  try and kill our heroes.  Roderick takes Juri and Corrine airborne again as CATS burrows down into the ground and an Abyss Submarine appears in the sky.  Unfortunately, it is unpowered, and begins to fall.
• 'Gil-Galad' kicks Nanami onto the Pattern, who burns away.   Shizumaru teleports to the Center of the the Pattern just as 'Gil-Galad' drops down through the trapdoor and closes it before Shizumaru can drop through.  'Gil-Galad' has Greyswandir and Werewindle teleport to him, and slices off Anthy's arms.  Mikage pulls Anthy back to protect her. Dozens of screaming Annadils burst into the Pattern Chamber and get flash-fried by Hiko.  Nagisa uses a trump of Anthy and the Cup of life to remotely heal Anthy's wounds, while Mikage attempts psychic combat with 'Gil-Galad' (not a smart idea).
• Roderick teleports himself, Corrine, and Juri next to CATS, who has just spat Primal Chaos where they -used- to be.  Juri and Roderick attack CATS as CATS bites off Corrine's arm.  The arm holding the Spoon.  CATS's head explodes.  Corrine  has Gabrielle cast a healing spell on her wound to stop the bleeding for the moment.  Juri and Roderick and Falme finish off CATS even as he makes one last-ditch attempt to use Primal Chaos (which gets supressed by the Spoon).  Juri and Corrine kill the rest of the remaining CATS bits.
• Stagger Lee's '28 Ford bursts into the Pattern Chamber, and starts driving up the walls for the ceiling.  'Gil-Galad'/Annadil produces the two Logrus Foils, and  inserts two patternblades into the Gate Door.  Shizumaru attempts to get to the Center of the Pattern, and finds himself shunted elswhere -- he has Kafuin teleport him into the Keep, and then has Kafuin contact Gabrielle to fire-teleport him to Hiko's position.  Yumi and Shaft  teleport to the back of Stagger Lee's Ford, who gets out. Mikage duels with 'Gil-Galad' for a bit, while Shaft and Shizumaru confront El Ravager.  Yumi and Hiko work at battering down the locked trapdoor, while Stagger Lee uses a deck of cards to cut up the screaming Annadil horde. Shizumaru  uses vines to grab El Ravager, and El Ravager falls onto the Pattern.  El Ravager fries.  'Gil-Galad' uses the Air Jewel to  force Anthy and Mikage against the wall of the Gate chamber, and then inserts the Logrus foils into the Gate Door.  Nagisa completes his Pattern Walk for the center of the Air Pattern as Yumi teleports Shaft to the center and the trapdoor gets blasted open. The Gate of Revolution begins to open as Stagger Lee drives his Ford through the opening.  The Gate of  Revolution begins to open as 'Gil-Galad' shapeshifts back into Annadil, laughing....
• Falme tosses the falling nonfunctional Abyss Sub into Dread Cthulhu, who's rising out of the ocean.  Corrine trumps Sparky, bringing him to the group so that they can head up to Tir'na-nog, but Gabrielle announces that the Gate is opening, and creates a fire-gate for them to head through instead.  Corrine, Juri, and Roderick head to the center of the Pattern Chamber.
• Corrine, Juri, and Roderick appear as the rest of the group assembles.  Beyond the opening Gate of Revolution stands Setsuna, Anthy and Annadils' sister.  Corrine, Juri, and Roderick drop down through the opening and are confronted by Mamiya as the Walking Man appears at the entrance of the Pattern Chamber.  Mikage is freed by Kafuin, and he and Shaft and Shizumaru and Hiko and Nagisa  link together, handily and mentally, in order to make the  elder sign.  Mikage floats them down into the Gate of  Revolution chamber as Stagger Lee attempts to run down Annadil, filling him with bullets.  Corrine, Juri, Roderick,  and Gabrielle fight Mamiya as Annadil fights with Setsuna, and Yumi turns to face the Walking Man as he walks across the  Pattern unharmed.
• Stagger Lee shoots Annadil in the back with an Elder-Sign bullet.  The Children begin to make the Elder Sign to close the gate.  Annadil fights setsuna, but is  interrupted by a Neural Disrupt from Juri.  Wasyuu and  Gideon appear in the center of the Pattern above, while Yumi uses various countermeasuers against the Walking Man.  Mamiya uses abyss power to flip Stagger Lee's Ford, but in the  process this gives Corrine and Juri and Roderick an opening to take out Mamiya.  Gideon and Wasyuu close the  top of the trapdoor with an Elder Sign made of ice, and Yumi teleports Anthy away, grabbing her spikards and Demi-Jewel so she can form an elder sign with various artifacts to take out Nylarathotep, the walking Man. Nylarathotep walks onto the Elder Sign and gets seriously inconvenienced as his legs and body burns away.  Corrine, Juri, Gaby, and Roderick kill Mamiya.  The Gate continues to close, forcing Annadil and Setsuna back Outside.
• A mysteious man and Lord Lowen appear, bent on killing Shaft (well, Lowen is, anyway).  Juri, Corrine, and  Roderick move to protect the Children as they continue to close the Gate.  Narylarathotep is stopped by Yumi, Gideon, and Wasyuu, who then seal him within a recursive-loop trump-trap.  The mysterious man KO's Lowen, and then departs  with him.
• The Gate of Revolution slams shut, locking Annadil Outside,  as well as Setsuna.
• The group starts trying to recover, but a massive Trump  Gate opens, ready to release the armies of Mori the First, the hyperintelligent genius baby of the Wu-Tang clan of Jade.  Mori's ninjas attempt to use trump-trap shiruken and abjectly  fail.  The Wu-Tang clan is foced to retreat before Our Heroes can attempt grevious bodily harm on them.  Gabrielle slams the gate shut closed.
• The group starts evacing back to the top of the Pattern Chamber to help seal away Nylarathotep's spirit.  The group heads back to Amber proper as Stagger Lee drives off  into the sunset.
• Our heroes appear at the top of city hall, and help Yuriko, Keiko, and Ramon fight off deep-ones in the flooded city.  The Funk Fleet Flagship Boogietown electrifies the Deep Ones as various folks let off steam by shooting at them.  Nagisa uses the Cup of Life to help de-flood the City.
• Hiko trumps off to check on Arden.  The Green Knight is greivously wounded, having had to try and fight off the Walking Man with little effect.  Shizumaru and Nagisa are trumped to Arden, along with Gabrielle, to help the Green Knight (and Forest Arden) heal.
• The group begins to degauss after a long day and night of saving the universe.  It is revealed that Motoko and the -real- Nanami worked to release Stagger Lee so they could have his aid in the battle.  Eventually, the majority of folks head down to a big party Tylor's set up in the dungeons of Castle  Amber.  The wrap party proceeds, people split off for the night and make out with their respective partners where  applicable.
• And so the Through A Mirror Darkly campaign officially ends. ^_^
• That night,  Mikage's Night of Dream Lives and Love takes place.  Nausicaa is born.
• Day 76
• Night of the Full Moon, Tir'na'nogth appears
• Day 77
• Night of the Full Moon, Tir'na'nogth appears

• Some time in this week, these epilogues  take place
• Shaft finally outwits Nanami
• Shaft and Shizumaru Throw Down to See Who Rules Who

July-August

• Events of Shizumaru Log of Shizumaru Finds His Mother   begin
• Shizumaru and Corrine take a stab at finding his mother, then he gets Michelle's help.
• He and Michelle go into Embra, and are aided in escaping by Angus.  Due to time dilation, this lasts two months...
• Meanwhile, Juri, Roderick, and Gideon depart for the WR/Rake universe, as seen in Gideon, Juri, and Roderick Depart for their Home Universe/Corrine talks to Angus

• Events of Shizumaru Log of Shizumaru Finds His Mother   continue
• Michelle calls in Saionji, who calls in Keiko.  The foursome go to Lipun and investigate, then Keiko goes home, and the trio of Saionji, Michelle, and Shizumaru ride forth
• They reach New Catala, a shadow ruled by Sakura, where Shizumaru's mother has been married to a fake Touga and had a child, Luke, by him.
• But Sakura is now dead (She died in Touga's real body during the Embra raid...), and Blake the Magnificent has taken over.
• Shiz and friends manage to rescue his mother and take Sakura's old male harem to safety with them
• On the way out, they loot Sakura's treasury and find Touga's soul in a bottle
• They return to Amber with the harem, and Shiz helps Touga get a new body.
• Da End.

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