Things are afoot at the Courts of Chaos

• The “AD&D” run from Cobalt arrives at the Abyss, guided by Ingold.
• Ingold uses Pattern to bind every demon within two miles of the Abyss with pattern chains.
• Stormy rescues Ilk, who finds out his cousin Vlad is presumed dead (several witnesses) and Ilk is now head of House Cara
• Cathryn returns, and fights with a redheaded, Pattern-wielding imposter to Jesby in the council chamber in Thelbane. Dara assists the imposter. A pile of white dust is left behind.
• Houses Major and minor Houses in Chaos are attacked.
  • Several House heads are missing.
  • House Cara is infested with small black demons that appear from corners and multiply in the presence of the Logrus. Vlad, the House Second to REN and titualur house head, is showing up in small pieces pattern-stapled to things around Chaos and the Black Zone.
  • House Jesby and its ways are “no longer contiguous with the Courts”
  • House Sawall and its holdings are set on fire.
• Damia introduces herself to Random as “Paulette”, his mother (and technically Queen in Amber).
• “rioting” demons begin to appear in the Courts of Chaos, followed by a massive invasion of heavily armored blue demons.
• Malachai acts as Regent of Amber, and proposes to Serena.
• Zach, Auricle, and Theraat loot Rhiannon’s magical laboratory and home, then travel to Amber.
  • Zach and Auricle encounter white dust, and hear of its effects on people, and hear that it is similar to the dust associated with Gwen statues.
• Cathryne finds the (real) heads of House Jesby and House Cara in the Egg-Place. (The people who run the house, not just their detached heads.)
• Clarissa arrives in Amber with Celeste, to pack up Brand’s room.
  • Clarissa accidentally brings Ingold’s pattern binding stone, dragging along thousands of demons. Many melt, others die, none are happy. The “invasion” is repelled.
• The crew from Cobalt, along with Benedict, inflict great umbrage upon the Shifters Guild looking for the missing (abducted?) Carleton. Carleton is recovered, and returns to Cobalt via a ‘mandrake backpack’.
• Trialla the Shau’um brings Cathryne, Jesby, and REN (who disappears) back to the Courts, crossing the Barrier separating Pearl from the rest of Shadow.
• the undead Norton arrives in Amber, with a shambling guide and the Pig Of Plenty.
• Faythe, with help from Celeste, heals Cassandra and restores her memories.
• Cathryne is given a Jewel of Judgement by Dworkin, so that she can contact him. Ilk starts to collect Vlad pieces. Dworkin gives Ilk a pattern-staple remover.
  • Cathryne and Jesby do some hopping through alternate realities.
• Titania tells Zach that refugees from Chaos have been arriving in Faerie - as long as they swear fealty to House Cara, Faerie is offering sanctuary.

Cathryne’s Pattern party

• Cathryne and Jesby return to the Courts.
  • There is a question as to the House-status of House Jesby, because the physical House is missing. As are the remaining House members.
  • Benedict reports that, according to a now-unavailable mage, House Jesby was kicked ahead in time
• For the first (but not the last) time, Ilk uses a barge to cross the new sea of demons pooling in Chaos.
• Snarsht, head of the Beastmasters Guild, identifies Norton as his “lost apprentice”
• Cathryne prepares to walk the Rebma Pattern, and Random invites “everyone” to her pattern party.
  • With Queen Moire of Rebma’s permission, Cathryne navigates the Rebma Pattern in four hours and teleports to her pattern party.
• Lots of people arrive at Cathryne’s pattern party, including apparent duplicates of Fiona, Bleys, and Brand. Norton is there in Corwin’s form, and responding to questions with Corwin’s knowledge. An Eric is also there.
  • Both Cassandra and “Corwin” have Greyswandir the Pattern Blade.
  • Ilk imports a serving staff for the party, who are later killed by Benedict. (Green cards are very important in Amber, apparently.)
• Cathryne receives many gifts at her party
• Norton restores the original Corwin, but later shifts into Eric with less entertaining results. (log)
• Cathryne talks with Ferethyn and Shiryu, who restore (and ward) the physical structure of her house in change for her help with the plague of identical violent demons in the Courts.
• Snarsht, Ilk, Zack, and Norton encounter Gwen’s white dust. They confirm that the dust is conscious, insane (megalomaniacal), and appears when you say Gwen’s name.

Cathryne’s Pattern party moves to Chaos

• Norton, Ilk, and Celeste get caught in a Trump trap set by Rainbow in Chaos. Darkstar is also trapped, and everyone is rescued or escapes.
  • Ilk is later threatened by Rainbow for escaping, and cowers. Rainbow’s revenge will be subtle and effective.
• Norton and Ilk are attacked by a major force of House Helgram in the Courts; while fighting them, Norton beastmasters many demons into vampires, Godzillas, Mothras, Snarshts, Triallas, Erics, etc.
  • Many other reinforcements arrive, including Cathryne’s pattern party. Cathryne returns her Jewel of Judgement to Dworkin.
  • Ferro has carried the new House Jesby out of chaos and into Shadow. Bella, the house head of Jesby, convinces him to bring it back, although the sea of demons has taken up that place so Ferro sets it on top of the demons.
• Osric leaves the Fringe to look for Merlin, and meets Ilk.
• A patternless Flora arrives at Castle Amber, somewhat confused. She brings with her Gerard’s arm and threats from Oberon.
  • Benedict, supported by Corwin, declares himself in rebellion against Oberon. Benedict says that he would consider it a personal slight if any of his relatives failed to support his rebellion. Benedict gets widespread, if lukewarm, support.
• House Cara and its allies attack House Helgram, and discover that Helgram has access to hundreds of thousands of mostly real troops. Norton starts a mental duel (assisted by Cassanrda) with one of the minds on the opposing side: Toram, Guildmaster of the Mages Guild. That information is ripped from their heads when Osric’s shields block the mental contact.
• After passing through a rift in the local Pattern room, Ferro encounters Hillbilly Dworkin brooding over the Variable Pattern created by that Suhuy, known as Gentleman Suhuy. Hillbilly Amber antics ensue.
• Ferro draws a pattern over the grave of Suhuy, which animates his ectoplasmic ghost.
  • Ferro finds a rift there to the Evil-Verse, and frees the Evil-Verse Eric and Flora (who aren’t particularly evil, it seems) from the prison cell Oberon put them in. When they reach Hillbilly Amber, Eric burns in the sunlight while Flora cradles the bones of her dead child, Melvin. Hillbilly Brand makes a comment about wind chimes, and gets his head ripped off by Flora.
  • Ferro, Gentleman Suhuy, and Hillbilly Deirdre travel to local reality.
• Caine is fighting an endless stream of locusts.
• A Flora walks the Pattern in Rebma, which rips out that which she was (with Dworkin’s help) and makes her more Flora. Corwin suspects this Flora is really Dara.
• Bellaquist (Cathryne’s mother, and the house head of House Jesby) requests extreme sanctuary from House Cara, after being threatened by the enemy and presented with Mandor’s arm (House Sawall ring attached).
  • The enemy houses are: Swayvill, Chanicut, Ganda, Darbin, Yigrin, Helgram, Arantantic.

Jenoir’s Elevation (vs Toram)

• Suhuy is discovered to be missing
• Jenoir is elevated to Guildmaster of the Mages Guild, after being rescued.
• Flora is rescued from Rebma, where she is trapped in a table made of solid blue ‘stuff’ inert to pretty much every power and the density and coloration of Rebman water. Much later, it will be nicknamed ‘Blucite’.
  • Flora is freed by Osric, because in some way Fringe Power is the opposite of Blucite.
• Amber is attacked by strange blue watery things, which eat many rangers.
• Toram is defeated multiple times, although the PCs must revive Clarissa from a dessicated form apparently caused by Toram.
  • Blackwand, the Morgani Weapon that Toram’s soul is fed to, has kittens. Deryhse is also implicated in the parentage. These weapons are small Morganti daggers, so black they’re pink, and somehow cattish.
• Jean walks the Primal Pattern at age five, thanks to a secret passage into Primal Kolvir and Brand’s garden of leprous frogs.
  • Ilk talks a dreaming Jean into dreaming of Suhuy, and Jean travels to Suhuy’s location - embedded in a Jewel Of Judgement in an alternate reality. Suhuy is rescued, just before he comes to an “accomodation” with the Jewel.
• Amber is invaded, again. This time, the invasion force is the “People Of Jade”, not-so-smart folk who can swim through rock and are swarming out of Garnath. The people are backed up by the occasional giant. Amber is defended by Chaosians (and Malachi) for a while, then Norton gets bored and changes Garnath into Spam. This blocks the invasion force, but creates a vast amount of spam.
• Cassanrda becomes the apprentice of Princess Chandra, after discovering that the Sith are a cadet (fringe?) branch of the Assassins Guild.

Party and Amber Formal Court

• Formal Court is held in Amber by its two surviving queens: Clarissa and Damia (a.k.a. “Paulette”).
  • Neville (later revealed as “Eric Junior”) arrives at the court somewhat by accident, on a tracking mission. He survives the encounter because no one wants to upset Flora by killing a guest at her function.
  • A shapeshifter from House Helgram is pink morganti’d and budded into by Jean, setting the stage for Jean’s later consumption and assumption of the demon horde in Chaos.
• Suhuy and Gentleman Suhuy create a Variable Pattern golem and pour Toram’s essence onto the Primal Pattern, destroying it. Dworkin is pissy, but distractable.
• Malachi is acknowledged by the Queens as Regent for Amber’s King.
• Celeste trumps Zach, who is in Rebma confronting Evil Benedict. Zach is distracted and killed.
  • Zach’s body and soul are retrieved, and Norton later re-integrates them. Zach has no memory of his death, and events are engineered to keep him from realizing it. (log)
• Evil Benedict moves toward Castle Amber, Clarissa dismisses formal court and the attendees leave hastily. Evil Benedict takes control of Castle Amber, killing everything down to microscopic life.