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"The fewer people who know, the fewer people the Hendrake can torture it out of." - unspecified Sawall to Mycroft, regarding the progress of their research into Trump
"You hear a sound above you." - GM to Mycroft
"Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap..." - Eric (player)
"Sure." - GM
"Ah, the tree. The tree is the center." - Asrael
"Not where I'm from." - Mycroft
"Of the Necropolis." - Asrael
"By telling [Paris] he's the Chosen One, he'll come back here and get killed. I have to do it." - Mycroft
"Oh, by the way, it'll be incredibly painful at the end." - Paris, right
after Neil takes his first step on the Pattern
"Important tip. Thank you, Paris." - Neil
"It thunks solidly into the person's chest." - GM
"I reload." - Paris
"Practical Amberite." - Bernie (player)
"You seem to be able to keep ahead of the flame as long as you keep
sprinting." - GM to Paris
(I guess I'll keep sprinting, then...)
"Neil, look in the center of the Pattern!" - Paris
(That darn Oberon turns up in all the damndest places)
"Trump me through now." - Paris, trying to get away from the Primal Pattern
"What do we say?" - Flora
"Please." - Paris
(Knowing when not to argue.)
"Good luck. Try not to die." - Hollo Sawall to Mycroft
"Who are you?" - random Barimen
"Friend of Farkas." - Mycroft
"I'll have to check with Farkas about that." - random Barimen
"Who are you?" - Stefan's Nameless Character
"My name is not important right now." - The Nameless 7-Foot-Tall Guy
"Well, then, clearly the four of us together are meant to do something." - Stefan's Nameless Character
"Okay." - the other three
"You can't avoid the Necropolis now." - Mycroft
"I couldn't avoid it before." - Paris
"You could be faking faking it." - Paris to Mycroft
(Ah, but you could be just faking thinking that he's faking faking it.)
"How do you do that?" - Stefan's Nameless Character
"I just do. It's one of my things." - Kyn
(Kyn the famously glib)
"Who are you?" - Kyn
"What do you want?" - Stefan's Nameless Character
(Session 9 brought to you courtesy of J. Michael Straczynski)
"'If you don't mind, this isn't as easy as it looks.'" - Stefan (player)
"I'm following you because you smell funny...not human." - Red
(Thanks for the qualification)
"There's not much profit in it." - Red, commenting on the current plot of the game
"Remind me again why you think this is a good idea?" - Neil
"I am not happy to hear that you left my son to die on the pattern, but I'd be willing to forgive you if you investigated the dark-haired stranger who looks like my son running around with Neil and Paris" - Flora
"Well, that didn't work out well" - Folken
("That" being Shapeshifting to look like Robert before contacting Paris)
"How do you know these things?" - Stefan's Nameless Character to Mycroft
"He likes to appear clever." - Kyn
"No, that's Farkas." - Mycroft
"No, Farkas is clever." - Kyn
"I'm not going to follow the stupidly crazy, instead I'm going to follow
Paris" - Mycroft
(These two things are different how?)
"You're Present." - Stefan's Nameless Character to Malcolm
"Yes, I am." - Malcolm, puzzled
(Don't you hate it when they can't hear the capitals?)
"I would think he would welcome you back with open arms" - Malcolm to
Neil, on Oberon
"Oh, there were arms involved." - Neil
"[Malcom's a] Bloodguard?" - Stefan's Nameless Character
"Yeah" - Lily
"As in Oberon's henchmen?" - Stefan's Nameless Character
"He's reformed." - Lily
"Have you been to Tarsh lately? It's a tourist trap." - Mycroft
"...and Paris is the tourist" - Bernie (player)
"By the way, using Logrus in the castle when Oberon is alerted is not a good idea." - Folken
"So there's this sorcerous plain on the top of Kolvir" - Malcolm
"Yes" - Neil
"That contains the source of all his [Oberons] power" - Malcolm
"Yes" - Neil
"And the anchor of the universe" - Malcolm
"Yes" - Neil
"And you want us to come along and shoot Oberon when he shows up."
- Malcolm
"....yes..." - Neil
(This deal is getting worse and worse)
"We're going to the Primal Pattern to take some samples." - Neil to Paris
"I guess I will hang out in Amber and look for someone being
inconspicuous" - Folken
"You spot someone being inconspicous, but it turns out just to be a guy
cheating on his wife." - GM
- Neil is delivered an inexplicable message via Logrus, signed, "Mycroft." -
"He doesn't seem like the sort of guy to send me junk mail" - Neil
"Mycroft's warfare is, in fact, enough to kill pigeons" - GM
"If you're dead, there's no more fashionable place to be than Tarsh." - GM
"Your hand's overlaid and there are two griffins in the center of the Pattern.
Maybe you're seeing double." - GM to Gabriel
(Context reference: He was not, in fact, seeing double.)
"Hey, Folken. The horse just divided." - GM
(Context reference: Neither was he.)
"You have an evil twin." - Neil
"That's not my twin." - Gabriel
(Yeah, it's just someone who looks like him! Er, wait...)
"That was Endymion." - Gabriel
"It's not Leirbag?" - Neil, not feeling Gabriel's pain
"I take it your little escapade was successful." - Lily
"Twice as successful as you might think." - Gabriel
(Gabriel resigns himself to the doubles jokes)
"Well. If [Argent] doesn't work out, I can always run." - Merlin
"There're lots of interesting places but I don't want to deal with any of them right now." - Mycroft
"We're playing the wrong characters." - Dave (Mycroft) to Matt (Folken)
"So, what do you want?" - Gabriel
"Well, I'd like to feel like a first-class citizen on this side of the
universe." - Folken
(Or, y'know, like a citizen at all)
"There's a call coming with the stupid Trump trick." - GM
"I answer it." - Neil
"It's Daniel." - GM
"Doh." - Neil, whose mother was very strict about swearing in the house
"I noticed you weren't doing anything about getting that Black Sword. Maybe
it has something to do with the 10,000 people you had to kill?" - Kyn
"How'd you know that?" - Paris
"I was listening to as well as watching you." - Kyn
"...and then you atacked Engen from Raksha." - GM
"Not attacked!" - Paris
"Yes, attacked." - GM
(...unless you have a different definition of what it means to march a thousand undead troops into a Shadow and start razing the countryside and killing soldiers.)
"You're getting a Trump call. It's the stupid Trump trick." - GM
"I answer it." - Paris
"It's Daniel." - GM
"Aaaaaaaah! Close the contact! Close the contact!" - Paris
"We decided it wasn't a good idea for the young, stupid people to fry
themselves to a crisp on [the Pattern]." - Corwin
"Thanks for the compliment." - Gabriel
"We don't discriminate." - Corwin
"Is there a trick to [the maze]?" - Gabriel
"No." - Corwin
(Well, there is, but it involves being Corwin.)
"My Pattern walk ended poorly." - Gabriel
(That's one way to put it.)
"The room is abuzz with the conversation of the insect guys." - GM
"Well, that was singularly unsuccessful. I suppose we'll have to send someone more charismatic, like Paris, next time." - Neil
"While I'm resting, I'll do some relaxing reminisces about Gabriel in that way that I do." - Neil
"Okay, you've got a gun. What do you do?" - GM
"I hit him with it." - Paris, begging the question of why he bothered with a gun
"If you happen to find a demon named Azrael there, just tell him you're one
of my minions." - Paris
"You're going to owe me big." - Kyn
"[Folken] could be a very small man on a very small horse." - GM
(More of the wonders of shapeshifting!)
"Is this the new, less murderous Gabriel?" - Eric (player)
"You're a mess. And he's worse." - Flora to Folken and Paris
"Uh. I think I'll shapeshift my own leg." - Folken
(...as opposed to trying to get Aisling-the-outcast to do it)
"Is Lily with me?" - Gabriel
"No, she and Fiona seem to have shacked up together." - GM
(Don't. Ask.)
"At night, dragons appear." - Merlin
"What kind of dragons?" - Gabriel
"Fucking big ones." - Merlin
"We may be getting some visitors, Neil." - Paris
"Oh? Should I get out the good china, or should I get out the claymores?"
- Neil, who was brought up right.
"Go away! I need to think for an hour or two." - Paris
"Yes, Master. I will be in the other room, Master." - Azrael
"I was thinking it'd take me so long to get [to Chaos], I'd better send Rezso instead." - Folken
"But I sit at your right hand after you rise to your glory." - Azrael
"This gets worse and worse." - Eric (Paris' player)
"I'm gonna go to a clothing store, find a nice suit, and get all GQ'ed
up." - Folken
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Minobee." - GM
"You know her mother gave me orders to kill (Aisling)?" - Folken
"Oh, really? So why haven't you?" - Gabriel
"Well, she was under your protection, and that might be considered a...faux
pas." - Folken
"For what it's worth, she's not under my protection anymore." - Gabriel
"Things would have gotten really ugly if we'd gotten captured. Would you
have bitten off your tongue and tried to poison yourself?" - Folken
"Probably. You?" - Gabriel
"Of course." - Folken
(Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.)
"I'll grab as many virulent microbes as I can and then BUG
out...hehe." - Paris
(Shut up, Paris)
"It's good to know that you're taking Trump calls. Don't you think that's a
bit risky?" - Paris
"Yeah...but, well, you know." - Neil
(We do?)
"As big as this army is, I don't relish the idea of bringing in an even greater evil to stop the lesser." - Paris
"How much do you owe me now?" - Kyn (to Paris)
"You're going to have to kill some people. I assume you don't have a
problem with that?" - GM
"Well....um.....Nope. They're working for Oberon." - Folken
(Ain't moral justifications grand?)
"Just assume that you're totally ignorant in character. It works for me.
Nobody tells me squat." - Eric (Paris' player)
"That's because you're a dangerous sociopath." - GM
"Are you raising an army or something?" - Kyn
"Yeah. I'm working on something like that." - Neil
(Context reference: He's so not.)
"How much do you owe me NOW?" - Kyn (to Paris)
"You may be flattered to know that of the portraits being attempted, yours
numbers among them." - GM
"I'd rather they didn't." - Mycroft
"Not happy. Flattered." - GM
"You get the impression [your clan leaders] aren't particularly happy to
have you around, considering what happened to the other clans when their
Amberite ambassadors returned." - GM to Mycroft
(Even more flattery!)
"Best to kill the evil before it's more than an... eviling." - Csatar
"Hatchling." - Mycroft
(For the record, the GM had been doing a good job of not tripping over nouns until that point)
"What was it Random once said to me? Rules are made to be broken." - Csatar
"Like bones." - Mycroft
- An awkward silence ensues -
"Is there anything else I should know?" - Neil
"Pork bellies are up." - Corwin
"Well. Perhaps I'll invest in some." - Neil
(Neil utilizes his Advanced Unflappability)
"I'll get some binoculars and check out this place." - Folken
"Binoculars? Oh, yes, you will be getting some binoculars. It's a good
thing your Chaos friends aren't around to make fun of you." - GM
(The shame of being shapeshifting-impared)
"I don't know what you'd like me to do." - Red
"Well, that's why we'll continue to have discussions." - Folken
"I'd like to offer you a minionhood." - Eric (Paris' player), for Folken
"What if you drip some and accidentally start a big fire?" - Folken
"I don't drip." - Red, loftily
(The intricacies of vampirizing Chaosites)
"Let my arm go. You've had your pint." - Folken
"Nawt yeht." - Red
"Okay, one more slurp and then you're done." - Folken
"Are there any Tir phenomenon here?" - Gabriel
"You think you could cause a Tir phenomenon here." - GM
"You push through again and you come out one of the exterior walls." - GM
"I've had enough of this Amberite bullshit." - Bors
(Welcome to the quotefile, Bors)
"He holds up his hand. It's healed. You're jealous." - GM to Folken
(Did we mention the shapeshifting imparement?)
"You're either an extremely strange man or an insanely stupid one." - Dorian to Folken
"You think you're down to when you're about fifteen minutes away from
finishing the chant, and you think they're about ten minutes away." - GM
"Suckitude!" - Paris, non-verbally
"Okay, so the fact that someone touched it and turned instantly into a
skeleton doesn't deter you at all." - GM
"Nope." - Paris
(Reference the quote before last)
"You can reanimate the horses too." - GM
"Oh, that's so tacky. I won't do that." - Paris
"The cavalry parts and you see Robert." - GM
"Shit. Now I run." - Paris
(It's reactions like this that contribute to Robert's dating problems)
"I run like a Chaosite with my tail between my legs." - Paris
"Well, honestly, you're a total pain in the ass to have around." - Farkas
to Bors
(Farkas is many things. Clever is one of those things. Tactful isn't)
"Screw it! I'm bored. Go to Amber." - Mycroft
"I trust you won't be disappointed if I'm forced to kill [Bors]?" - Gabriel
"He's not *my* lackey." - Neil
"You're not currently close enough to observe people, unless you have
some other way of observing people..." - GM
"I think I do. I'll use that." - Gabriel
"Not to be too cynical, but cheap plot tricks like that rarely work." - Stefan (player), on plans to singlehandedly demolish Robert's army
"Am I sedated?" - Paris
"No, you're not sedated." - GM
"So I'm in great pain." - Paris
(That'd be a 'yes.')
"Where are we?" - Paris
"We are-- in Shadow." - Asrael
"Well, that's the best answer I'll get from him..." - Paris
"Why were you out of it?" - Caine
"Robert chopped my arm off." - Paris
"Mm. You're a lucky bastard." - Caine
"He took me by surprise." - Paris, explaining above
(This is not technically true. Nor would it have mattered.)
"Where are you going?" - Gabriel, to the spokesman for the ghostly
thing-riders
"Where the hunting is." - Spokesman
"What do you hunt?" - Gabriel
"Rocks." - Spokesman
(Technically, that was 'Rocs,' but you should've seen the look on their faces.)
"Do you know what will happen when they take the Necropolis? A blight
will fall upon this land such that every living thing will die." -
Gabriel
"And that blight's name is Gabriel." - Eric (player)
"Asrael, what do you think?" - Paris
"About what, Master?" - Asrael
"How will we defeat this army?" - Paris
"You could lay down your divine vengeance on them." - Asrael
"Sounds good." - Paris
- Bors is trying to figure out the local Shadow rules -
"So you're going to manipulate the shadow storm?" - GM
"Yes." - Paris
"Bors, you thought you were making progress..." - GM
"You're having a not terribly productive talk with the shaman when the
shadow storm on the horizon suddenly gets a whole fuckload bigger." - GM
"I just look over and say, 'It's begun.'" - Gabriel, never one to look a gift horse in the mouth
"Ok. Bors, you're getting bourne down upon by giant ghostly
cat-rhinoceroses." - GM
(The situations prep school just doesn't prepare you for.)
"C'mon. You could run like a Chaosite." - Bernie to Stefan (players), on attacking the command tent
"When are you going to bring your guys into a realm where they could
actually do some damage?" - GM
"When we're right on top of them." - Gabriel
"When it's too late to realize you can't..." - Madeline (player)
"What's he wearing?" - Bors, meeting Paris
"A very large sword." - GM
"And a very small sling." - Bernie (player)
(...And some clothes and stuff.)
"Paris, a seven-foot-tall flying Minotaur is approaching you." - GM
"You must be a Chaosite." - Paris
"Where did you say Gabriel was, again?" - Paris
"Hey guys, you're getting approached by a group of huge rhino-mountain
lions." - GM
"Here he is." - Bors
"Is he here to help you on your mission?" - Asrael
"Say yes." - Paris, whispering
"Left it in my other pants, and you know how fast I go through pants." -
Kyn
- A brief pause, then widespread snickering -
"Shapeshifting, guys! Get your minds out of the gutter." - GM
"I mean, look at it. The bloodguard are basically the result of your
creation..." - Stefan (player), debating Aisling's trustworthiness
"No." - Madeline (player), emphatically
"Stefan's character concept was, basically, 'I want to play a
sociopath.'" - GM
"Did I say that?" - Stefan
"No." - GM
"Hmm." - Stefan
(But he rather strongly implied it.)
"I'll be a big tall distinctive-looking human." - Bos
"Distinctive-looking?" - GM
"Big, tall, black, and tribal." - Bors
"What a pair..." - Stefan (playing Gabriel the nigh-albino), shaking his
head
"It's your mother [Flora] that's even creepier than I am." - Madeline (player)
"I'll give you that." - Stefan
"Bors." - Gabriel
"Yeah?" - Bors
"I'd appreciate it if you'd warn me before changing form." - Gabriel
"Oh- yeah. Yeah, sure." - Bors
"I think he [Gerard] is just holding off on hitting me because technically, I'm his
king." - Random
"And technically, you're his patient." - Neil
"And technically, I'm his ride." - Random
"I'm glad you thought out the exigencies of this endeavor." - Neil
"I do understand big words, you understand." - Gerard
"I know..." - Neil, uneasy
"Then I screech around the corner, changing into a crotchety old Hendrake meanwhile, and-- pray to God that this works." - Aisling
"I dunno. All of the failures have been Gabriel." - GM
"Yeah, that's right. Except for Gabriel, we have a 100% success rate for
walking the Pattern." - Bernie
"So you're being held upside down and carried down a shadowpath in midair while fighting for your sanity." - GM to Paris, recapping the scene
"Master-- may I ask what you are doing?" - Asrael
"No." - Paris, fighting a Trump contact with Rafael
"I have to know... What are you doing?" - Rafael
"You can make an arm that doesn't require surgery to attach. A clip-on." - GM
"Paris is planning to challenge the Master for control of the
Necropolis." - Gabriel
"What a fascinating plan. When Paris is the Master of the Necropolis,
let me know, and I'll move the army." - Neil
"Touche." - Gabriel
"Fucking Big Dragons!" - Random
"That's exactly what Merlin said." - Neil
"Helium. Helium is very resistant to corrosion." - GM, on a suit of
sword-surviving armor Bors could make for Paris
"He could look like Mr. Freeze, with the icicles hanging off his metal
suit..." - Bernie
"You could go for hydrogen. Then it would explode when he got hit." -
Madeline
(Brainstorming, the Amber way.)
"What's your character's name again?" - Stefan
"Oh, I thought you weren't referring to me in character because we were
enemies." - Madeline
(Ah, Amber...)
"Maybe instead of building armor, you should have Bors build some kind of special harness which allows you to run backward very fast." - Neil
"What about our resident Chaosites?" - Paris
"Well, you could ask one of them to be an arm for you." - Neil
"As far as I can tell, Paris doesn't actually have a plan." - Gabriel
(The truth is out!)
"So after [Paris] defeats the Master, you can take over the Necropolis?"
- Folken
"That's Paris' belief." - Neil
"There's a prophecy that says Paris can do this?" - Bors
"That's Asrael's belief." - Neil
"Where does this prophecy come from?" - Folken
"There are some things better left unknown." - Paris
"I for one would like to keep my arms." - Gabriel
(Wuss.)
"I can't believe you guys never said anything about the vampires in
Raksha to me!" - Paris
"It didn't seem really important at the time." - Kyn
(And now, for your enjoyment, Paris will fail to elicit a great deal of sympathy.)
"We want to capture one of those demons alive to find out if they're dead."
- Folken
(Righ-- What?)
"Asrael, I have a question to ask of you. Are you living or dead?" - Paris
"Although this is my battle, and I would definitely like to be there..."
- Paris
(Words Paris will come to rue)
"If they were just ordinary shadow dwellers with grey skin, you wouldn't
hesitate to eat them." - GM to Aisling
(This more or less goes without saying.)
"Sticky, invisible, razor-sharp projectiles?" - The Clever Plan TM
"I'll be sure to encourage Paris to arm himself." - Neil
"I'm really glad one of you has a sense of humor." - Aisling
(Gabriel feels left out.)
"Goddammit! I was supposed to kill [the Master]!" - Paris
"You said no one but you could kill him." - Neil
"I meant no one but me should kill him!" - Paris
"You should be more careful with your language." - Neil the Syntax Nazi
"So what is your target, Mr. Total Novice to Logrus?" - GM to Bors
(...Not to imply anything.)
"I'll take a burrowing form to dig down to the bottom of the square through
the layers of bodies." - Aisling
"So, little bloodbeast, shall we go up to the citadel?" - Aisling
"Hgrm." - unhappy bloodbeast
"Paris will wake up cursing Neil. Well, not that kind of curse." - Paris
"My name is Mycroft Sawall. You killed my father. Prepare to die." - Dave (player)
"Ah, he deserved it." - Stefan (player)
"Julian has legendary self-control, Gabriel has legendary lack of tact."
- GM
"It's a double-edged sword." - Stefan
"Just like the one that killed your father!" - Bernie
"Is there anything there that might react to Paris?" - Neil
"The throne might, but he'd probably just sit there and go 'Hahaha! I'm
on the throne in the Necropolis.'" - Bors
"That's one less favor I owe you." - Paris
"Word. Paris and Bors have appeared in the courtyard." - bloodbeast
"This looks like a good time for Asrael to reappear." - Aisling
"That is wrong on so many levels." - GM
"Do the Folken thing and touch it with a stick." - Eric (player) to Mycroft on the road cube
"So, you're just going to march in as Daniel-" - GM
"No, I'm going to pop in." - Mycroft
"As Daniel." - GM, incredulous
(Just so as we got the "Daniel" part down.)
"Everything's fine here... Now... Thank you... How are you?" - cube guy
"Are you kidding me? This is the holy grail! This is the Build-a-Road-Through-Tarsh cube!" - Mycroft
"Gabriel and I were wandering through this dreamland, and I'd lost my
sword earlier, so we were looking for one. We came upon a lake swathed
in mists, where there was a kid and his old cloaked advisor. A hand rose
up from the water, holding out a sword to this scrawny kid, and Gabriel
just walked up, booted him out of the way, and took the sword." - Bernie (player)
- Laughter ensues -
"Well, I needed a sword." - Stefan (player)
"Gabriel. What are you doing here?" - Julian
"Looking for you." - Gabriel
"You found me." - Julian
"Or you found me." - Gabriel
"As the case may be." - Julian
(The problem with having two taciturn men in the family.)
"Let's see here. Tcktcktcktcktck... Oh what the hell. Let's have Dave's Doom!" - GM
"'Your character will die on the Pattern.' Hm. This one's [Stefan's]." - Eric (player) reading a fortune cookie
"Extreme physical pain, or trust someone else. I think he's going for the extreme physical pain." - Eric (player), on Mycroft and the cube
"Oh, by the way, I hauled the Old Master's skeleton up to the citadel and stuck it in a closet. Just in case." - Aisling
"You can soak up a good amount of hurt without dying, right?" - Aisling, planning with Bors
"And Folken falls on the ground convulsing." - GM
"I do?" - Folken
"Yes." - GM
(Getting bitten on the finger by a bloodspider does not appear to be the
first step to becoming a superhero.)
"Is the spider alive and well?" - Gabriel
"Want to put your finger in and check?" - GM
- The bloodguard howl in the distance -
"Guess who's not going to get very far with his cube?" - Stefan to
Mycroft
"It's one of those great cross-game truths: Suck up to the healer." -
Eric
(Of course, in D&D she's not allowed to screw with your mind every time she casts a Cure Light Wounds)
"Aisling! How would you like Folken to owe you his life?" - Neil
"Bring me through." - Aisling
(Some questions don't even need asking.)
"Reality is less stable with three poles." - Mycroft
"Yes, we do need to eliminate the Logrus." - Paris
"When Folken finds out that you brought Aisling in to mess with his mind,
he may want to kill you." - Eric (player)
"No no! Not anymore..." - Madeline (player)
"Ok, let's assassinate Raphael real quick!" - GM
"I really thought you'd put knockout rounds in that ammo..." - Madeline (player)
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