Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2020 6:48:07 GMT
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I will try to keep an up-to-date summary of the game's events in this post.A. Calvera finds his home shadow being invaded by a force from beyond. While scouting the invaders, he meets a mysterious masked man in green clothing. The man reminds him that he is the crown prince of Amber and some would support his claim on the throne. Since the man won't identify himself, Cal gets angry, and they fight. The man of mystery is badly injured but is taken away from the battle by some sorcery.
Continuing the following day, his scouting reveals them to be tall, grey-skinned people with long sharp teeth and spurs on the backs of their hands. Preparing for battle, he has a parley with the General. He sees the invaders pull a giant wicker statue of the Unicorn with them. They claim to be the army of the Unicorn and are searching through shadow to find their promised land of Amber. They are also gladly killing anyone or anything that gets in their way.
There is a battle, and Calvera kills the General. Priests of the Unicorn start a chant and cast a spell that decimates Cal's forces. The Unicorn herself appears grows to giant size and runs Calvera down, transporting him to Corwin's version of Tir-Na nog'th1.
B. In the middle of the night, while asleep in the Chateau d'Amber, Natalia and Jaxiam are awakened by the same dream of a burning Pattern in the ghost city of Tir'nath. Following the hunch, they climb to the top of the tallest town in the castle, where the stair to the ghost city begins.
In the city, they wander the ghost streets of Paris and come into the great store Bon Marche. Inside visions of the past and future haunt them. They sense another 'real' person there with them and chase her out of the building back to the streets where Chaos wolves are on the hunt. They find Calvera1 roaming the streets.
Together, the three follow the hounds stalking the mysterious woman. There is a fight, and the hounds are killed or run off. The woman is found to be Deirdre and injured near death. Jaxiam transports them all to his home shadow and attempts to cure Deirdre, but her odd form doesn't react well to his magic, and she dissolves into nothingness.
Calvera confronts the other two and is given a trump card to leave Jaxiam's realm. He does so.
Jax stays in his world to do his thing while Natalia returns to Paris to find Corwin returned and Corwin dead. The living Corwin explains that he had been held prisoner in the Courts of Chaos for many years, and during that time, a dupe was placed in Paris as part of some Chaos Lord's plan. Now that he is back, he is converting the city to war footing and preparing his army to repel an expected attack from the Courts. A flaming phoenix (is there any other kind?) flies into the throneroom delivering a secret message to Corwin.
C. It is a hectic night at Wormwoods; Hammett sits at a table overlooking the action while thinking of a letter from Ferrari at the Blue Parrot asking to discuss a matter of some importance. Then he feels the pressure of a trump contact and blocks it while trying to determine who it is trying to reach him. He figures that it is his uncle Bleys. Signor Ugarte interrupts Hammett's concentration which ends the attempted contact.
Ugarte tells of the dead agents on the train, and Hammett's relationship with Amber makes him a person of interest. Ugarte mentions that there is information that the spies carried and was wondering if Hammett received it would he turn it over to Gerard or keep it for himself? Hamm gets irritated at Ugarte's sideways attempt to sell, but U says he doesn't have anything but knows people who would spend a lot of cash to get a hold of the documents, and if Hammett happened to get a hold of them, then maybe a deal could be worked out. Hammett laughs, saying that he knows nothing of it, but if he learns anything, he'll be in touch.
to be continued...
D. Captain Brenon brings the Celessia into the port city of Kasaba. The city is in a bit of uproar with the arrival of Gerard's flagship Stormrider in the bay. Amid the chatter on the docks, he hears complaints of Amber's high hand in dealings with her shadow partners, the death of two Amber spies earlier that day on the train from Oran, rumours of King Rinaldo of Kashfa meddling in other kingdom's affairs, and talk of the princes and princesses of Amber returning to war with each other.
Gerard comes to shore in a launch surrounded by his marines. They push through the crowds to the Blue Parrot Cafe, with Brennon following. Signore Ferrari, the proprietor of the Blue Parrot, spots Brennon and signals him to go into the cafe through the back entrance. Once inside, he can hear Gerard speak of some stolen papers and that they could only turn up in one of three places: the Blue Parrot, Ril'k's, or Hammett's Wormwood Cafe. Ferrari says that he will cooperate completely to help find the papers.
Gerard spots Brennon and calls him over, saying it is quite a coincidence that the Celessia would show up on the same days the spies were killed. G threatens B with losing his ship if B doesn't assist in the investigation, and Brennon threatens back in return, making Gerard even angrier.
They agree just before Hammett arrives at the table.