Aristides, Lucian and Sybella are in Castle Amber

Misao and Quentin are... ???

Quentin trumps Wakenda
Quentin comes through
Misao trumps Quentin, who pulls her through.

Quentin, Misao and Wakenda Pattern teleport to the Primal Pattern, where Wakenda is given the choice of walking it voluntarily or being thrown onto it. He walks it sorta voluntarily.
He lives.
Misao and Quentin fill Wakenda in on exactly how he was in danger, and how he is no longer in as much danger.
Wakenda's pissed; he teleports off to find something to kill. Like Jessamy.
He finds himself in a shadow that seems to be like Victorian India. He's outside a western style building.

Misao trumps Annabel, and goes down to Chaos. She tells her that Wakenda has just walked the Pattern. They end up gossiping.

Quentin trumps to the Amber entry hall. It's morning. He goes to the throne room, but Random isn't there yet. He leaves a message asking to speak to Random.

Aristides has been making plans to bug out for a long trip tomorrow morning.
He's trying to be sneaky about it so that no one can clue in Random.

Lucian goes down to have breakfast. Clarissa joins him. They chat. They talk about Aristides and tonight's party.
Lucian will be escorting Llewella to the party.

Quentin gets a call from Random- someone has kidnapped Nadya and Jacob. Random has Julian looking into it, but the trail is a bit cold because the Begmans were embarrassed about it and waited to tell Amber.
Quentin tells Random that Wakenda has walked the Pattern, and then teleports to Begma.

Arndis is seeing to relief efforts in Fusil, arranging to get food and supplies brought in.
Once that's set up, she trumps to Amber.

Misao finishes up gossiping with Annabel, then heads home to talk to, with and at Koji.
They hash out what exactly went wrong when Koji left and put Jerrick in charge.
She fills him in on her plan to send Jet, Nora and George into Amber.
She checks in with Harvey in Chi-Town. Things are going about as she would expect.
Misao trumps Clarissa.

Misao joins Clarissa and Lucian in the breakfast. Misao explains to him, in no uncertain terms, that when she asks for someone, right before she passes out, that person needs to be gotten, immediately. Lucian begs out of responsibility, blaming Misao for not properly delegating authority.
Misao is briefly distracted by the presence of real breakfast food.
Lucian tells Misao about the party this evening.
Misao and Clarissa make plans to find Henry and go for a shadow walk.

Wakenda has physically blended in with the residents of this shadow. He's looking for anyone who might be Flora, or is part of Jessamy. He settles in and starts spying.

Wakenda gets a trump call from Sybella. He starts encrypting the contact. She reminds him about the party. He fills her in on what he's doing, then hangs up.

Aristides joins the breakfast crowd and starts asking questions about Pattern.
The book on Pattern he found in the library was written by 'Selene'
Misao starts educating him on shadow, and Pattern, and Logrus, and Broken Pattern. And everything else.
Arndis shows up in the breakfast hall.
Elizabeth Russell comes into the breakfast hall and is introduced around. She's also warned off the huevos rancheros.
Elizabeth asks if they've seen her son about yet this morning. No one has.

Quentin is jumped by the Begman guard as soon as he appears in Nadya's chambers.
He eventually manages to call them off.
He starts getting information out of the person in charge at the scene.
They're not particularly happy to see him there.
He gets some information, then trumps Julian, who's pursuing the kidnappers.
Julian has no good news. There's no sign of who the kidnappers are.
There seem to be about half a dozen of them, and they reek of Chaos.
Julian and Quentin hellride after them. Julian has a handful of his rangers with him.
They're eventually waylaid by some of the nasties in the forest, but it's nothing they can't handle.
They eventually come to an abandoned campsite. And Nadya's corpse.
Two groups seemed to meet here. One group met the runners here and moved on while the other scattered.
Quentin trumps Misao, and has her go to somewhere where she can receive the body.
Nadya's body is tucked away in a private room.
Misao goes to inform Random. They begin to make the funeral arrangements.

Misao returns to the breakfast room, but only Clarissa and Aristides are still there.
Misao tells them what just happened with Nadya.

People start getting trump calls from Sybella and Lise, 'inviting' them to tonight's party.
A 'Thou shalt come to the party,' type thing.

Arndis looks in on Dryden after she gets her invitation, to see if he's available for the party. She decides that he will be.

"Do you want to know what you can do with the Pattern, or what it is?"
"Well, both."
"I have no fucking idea what it is."
--Misao and Aristides

Sybella calls Wakenda, brings him up to date. Wakenda declines his invitation to the party. He's going to ground here for a while. He then moves, gets a new job and changes his name.

Lucien calls Llewella so they can coordinate their outfits.

Arndis makes her and Dryden's clothing arrangements.

Misao and Clarissa put off their shadow walk to tomorrow.
They decide to go to the party together.
They coordinate their outfits.
Clarissa considers investigating what's happened with Nadya and Jacob down in the Courts.
Misao pulls a fork ambush on Aristides.
He actually manages to catch the catch the forks out of the air.

Sybella comes to the breakfast room and fills Misao in on Wakenda's situation.

Misao goes off to see what she can do to help Wakenda.

"Well, on the really solemn occasions, we go naked."
--Aristides, answering Sybella's question about what he's wearing to the party

Wakenda is now masquerading as a rug merchant. He feels something odd happening in the shadow around him. The natives don't seem to notice anything off.
He starts taking more precautions while he tries to find out what's happening here.

Misao trumps Wakenda while he's in the middle of trying to assemble a spell to read the shadow.
Misao immediately notices that there's some sort of size problem with the shadow- at least, that's what it feels like, although there doesn't look like it.
Wakenda shapeshifts Misao to blend in with the locals.
Misao gets the same feeling about Wakenda.
Wakenda fills in Misao about what he's seen here.
Misao seems to be adjusting to the area.
They move to a different location. Wakenda sets fire to his rug shop and leaves a skeleton in the ashes.
Wakenda makes a beacon that he'll be able to find again. Misao watches his back.
Wakenda puts together a particularly nasty enigma/trap/puzzle around the beacon.
Wakenda tries to trump them out. He can only make visual contact- they can't go through.
Misao tries trumping Bleys. It takes a long time. Bleys pulls them out. It feels like they're being pulled through a screen door. It seems that Bleys is pulling them out through barriers that otherwise would have trapped them.
Bleys collapses as soon as he brings them through.  He's bleeding from the ears, eyes and nose.
Wakenda starts treating him immediately.
Misao trumps them to her shadow. She gets assistance from Adam.
Misao gets some pink and fluffy revenge on Bleys.

"I know you were cranky, but that was stupid enough to be worthy of me!"
--Misao to Wakenda

Aristides and Sybella go looking for orchids for Misao and Clarissa

According to Clarissa, Jasra was from some house under Helgrim (supposedly).

Misao, Wakenda and Bleys return to Amber for the party.
Everyone is there except for Quentin and Julian.

The party begins- it's a weird mix of casual and formal. It's fairly low key.
Misao tells Aristides more about shadowwalking.
Arndis hangs out with Dryden. The elders seem to approve of the pairing.
Lucian tells Llewella about Nadya. She offers to help with the funeral arrangements.
Lucian tries to arrange emotional support for Quentin.

Quentin and Julian are ambushed and lose two of Julian's rangers.
Julian is bitten and poisoned, so Quentin takes point on the Hellride.
Quentin calls Misao and asks for backup - Misao, Arndis, Lucien, Hildegard, Clarissa, Koji, Ryoga, Diablo and Meg come along. They bring fresh horses and Meg provides armament.

The reinforced group hits force ambush, but it's easier to handle since there are more family members present.

Eventually, we hit an open plain and find the paths of three more groups.
Arndis and Hildegard go scouting for more info on the competition.
We've managed to cut into our quarry's lead time.
Two of the new groups are coming out of shadow, and the other is coming from Chaos- they're all pursuing our quarry.

The Chaosians are using Logrus and are wearing Helgrim's colors. The other two groups are using Pattern.
One is being led by the man who tried to kidnap Sybella. It's someone from Jessamy. (Reuben).
The other is being led by a woman in Benedict's colors.
Arndis can't see the group we're pursuing.

We decide to divide our party.
Arndis and Julian go to slow Benedict's group.
Misao and her bandits (except Koji) go to slow down Reuben.
The rest continue the pursuit.
Misao hits Jessamy's troop with anti-shapeshifter mines.
About half of them are shifters (although Reuben isn't), and they are left behind.
Misao starts dragging obstacle shadows into Reuben's path.

Arndis and Julian manage to slow Benedict's troop somewhat.

Quentin's group has managed to nearly catch up with the kidnappers.

Helgrim sends a rider out to Quentin's group under a flag of truce- they're concerned that someone is going to try and pin this on them, and offer their assistance.
Quentin accepts.
Our skirmishers come back in.

The kidnappers have stopped their flight and taken up what defensive position they can.
Benedict's daughter shows up- Ghostwheel is with her.
We plan our attack.
Misao has a blinding light which will incapacitate everyone who sees it.
Quentin shapeshifts into a blind, echolocating form.
We can see where Jacob is- When Misao sets off the light, Quentin Pattern teleports to the woman holding him and grabs him.
Lucian tries to trump Quentin, but Ghostwheel grabs him first and pulls him out.

Quentin, Ghost and Jacob are in the restaurant where Quentin met with his mother and Luke.
Ghostwheel tells Quentin that Jasra had made arrangements for the safe keeping of Rinaldo and Nadya's child some time ago.
Quentin and Ghost strike a deal- Ghost will take Jacob to be raised by Quentin's mother, and Quentin will have visitation rights (not that Quentin had a whole lot of leverage).

Ghostwheel drops Quentin back off at the battlefield. The battle is over, but no prisoners were taken.
No one is able to identify any of the corpses.
Helgrim's troops ride off.
Benedict's daughter has disappeared.
Julian isn't happy that Quentin doesn't have Jacob with him

We ship the horses back and then head to Amber.

The party is still dragging on. Gerard and Corwin are soused, and Random has a pleasant glow about him.

Annabel makes an appearance.
Borant shows up with Yvonne and some of Delwin's kids-
Kistran, David, Brademante, Orwell, and Suze.

Tancred and Brenda are getting married- there's been no official declaration, but it's quasi-official.

Edwina makes a pass at Aristides.

The search party arrives at the party, after making a short stop at Misao's shadow to clean up.
Julian goes off to join Gerard and Corwin.

Quentin makes a report to Random, who seems to accept how things turned out.

Llewella offers Quentin her assistance with the funeral arrangements.

Quentin answers some questions for people, then heads off to work out some aggression before going to bed.

Llewella asks Lucian to talk with Patricia about Dalt's funeral.
Patricia agrees to make an appearance as chief mourner at Dalt's funeral, as long as it's a secular ceremony

Misao spends some more time filling in Aristides.

Misao and Clarissa dance a bit - the elders aren't quite sure what to make of the two of them.

Everyone eventually turns in for the night.
Misao gives Clarissa a good-night kiss and isn't slapped.

Early the next morning, Aristides gets up to go and wander through shadow.