This is the city: a hotbed of intrigue, magic, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. It's a good place to live. And an easy place to die. A game of swashbuckling noir.
| J.P. Brannan: | Lord Doctor Fionntán Sabatini of the Royal College of Heraldry | |
| Keith Cripe: | Hawk, Captain of the City Guard in the suck side of town | |
| Michael Croft: | Rodrigo Diaz, Count of Oisenmouth | |
| Michael Curry: | Captain Wesley Hobart, Captain of the frigate Raptor, a privateer | |
| Andy Dawson: | Harrek, thug-for-hire | |
| Kris Fazzari: | Madeline Dumas, Genevieve's identical twin, wine merchant, agent of Amber's Secret Service | |
| Sol Foster: | Sean O'Donovan, Commodore in the Royal Navy | |
| William Gulstad: | Ambrose del Mar, Admiral High Mage of the Southern Fleet | |
| Kevin Hudson: | Father Beyron | |
| Stephanie Itchkawich: | Griz the Gray-Eyed, sailor in the Royal Navy | |
| Jennifer Jackson: | Elyssa Darcy, the jeweler of which all other jewelers are Shadow | |
| Sarah Kindred: | Detective Crown Investigator Abigail Irene Garrett | |
| Michael Kucharski: | Nicholas van Alikki, farm boy a la D'Artagnan, professional duelist | |
| Leslie Lightfoot: | Weir Leutnant Arryl der Gottswache | |
| Mike Manolakes: | Raoul | |
| Sean McCabe: | Wrenn, Amber City Watch Detective | |
| Blake Moorcroft: | Morgan DeChastellan, Cardinal of the Church of the Unicorn and Chief Inquisitor | |
| Ian Ng: | Lugaines, knight ranger in Julian's service | |
| Jill Pritts: | Leonne Azure, Rebman Ambassador | |
| Jill Pritts: | Genevieve Dumas, Madeline's identical twin, wine merchant, agent of Amber's Secret Service | |
| D.J. Quinn: | Lord Varien San Oceal | |
| Michael Schloss: | Dane, Captain of the City Guard in the merchant quarters | |
| Glen Seymour: | John's Son, sailor in the Royal Navy | |
| Pierre-Alexandre Sicart: | Ethan, the toy-maker | |
| Ginger Stampley: | Patrice Pinegar, sister-in-law of Juliana | |
| Liz Trumitch: | Juliana Pinegar, Duchess of Carlisle | |
| Scott Whitney: | Maximillian Feldane, seventh son of a seventh son | |
| Rae Williams: | Chastity, brothel madame | |
| Jeremy Zimmerman: | Sir Reginald "Reggie" Bayle |
"So, (Sean's) the honorable captain. (He's) like Kermit the Frog in Muppet Island." -- John Davies to Sol Foster
"Mind if we sacrifice fudge to the Tiki?" -- Sol Foster
"Fudge for the Tiki! Fudge of the Tiki!" -- Blake Moorcroft
"We figured it said 'Free Rebma' so it was even better." -- John
Davies
"Typically it's just 'Cheap Rebma.'" -- Scott Whitney
"How horrifyingly domestic." -- Scott Whitney to the group, watching Jennifer Jackson cross-stitch a bib
"I don't mind if you sit in my lap, but you still can't see my character sheet." -- Scott Whitney to Jennifer Jackson
"His name's Dane, but his other name is Hamlet." -- Blake Moorcroft,
punning horribly about Michael Schloss' character
*GROAN* -- everyone
"Omlet, Pans of Denmark!" -- Scott Whitney, quoting the Karamozov
Brothers
"I'm not a farm boy! I'm a swordsman!" -- Michael Kucharski, speaking
as Nicholas
"No, he's the Dread Pirate Roberts." -- Scott Whitney
"I'M THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS!" -- Michael Kucharski
"Oh, I get it. He's a pathological liar." -- Scott Whitney
"As you who read the e-mail know, some ambassadors are coming to town."
-- GM
"Yes, and all the references to intrigue have been replaced by wenching."
-- Scott Whitney
"I don't mean to scare you, but the same person has top rank in
Strength and Endurance." -- GM
"Victory is mine!" -- Scott Whitney
"No! It's the person who bought no powers." -- Blake Moorcroft,
indicating Jennifer Jackson
"Are you kidding? She bought 100 points of Good Stuff!" -- Scott
Whitney
"So are you expecting a kid, or is this for a friend?" -- Jeremy
Zimmerman, asking Jennifer Jackson about the bib
"Actually, I have one upstairs. We can bring it down here and share." --
Jennifer Jackson, responding to a different question
"Before I torture Sol..."
"While I torture Sol..."
"...while you're doing that, I'll torture Sol."
"I'm going to go back and torture Sol..."
-- GM, repeatedly throughout the first five
minutes of play
"Hey, don't make fun of little Nicky Alikki!" -- Scott Whitney to ?
"I'm top ranked in Stuff, too, right?" -- Scott Whitney
"Yes." -- GM
"VENGENCE IS MINE!" -- Scott Whitney
"I thought it was 'victory?'" -- Sol Foster
"It was." -- Scott Whitney
"Sol, I paid 10 points to have (the GM) give you 10 Bad Stuff." -- Scott Whitney to Sol Foster
"Swashbuckling-noir, comedy nightly, dark humor on Wednesdays." --
GM
"I thought this was the gay game..." -- Michael Kucharski
"Oh, crap. I'm in the wrong game!" -- Jeremy Zimmerman (switching to Adair
mode)
"And here you took exalted wenching. Boy are you going to look stupid."
-- Scott Whitney
"You've been gratuitously redecorated by Flora." -- Scott Whitney to
Sol Foster
"You've been Floradated!" -- Blake Moorcroft
"I've got Weird Stuff..." -- Sol Foster to ?
"Actually, your place is as clean as it would be if your servants
actually showed up." -- GM
"I should hire these thieves!" -- Sean
"You're not noticing anything missing. In fact, you have more stuff than before. You now have throw pillows." -- GM to Sean
"Redecorating with intent." -- Scott Whitney to ?
"I'll set a trap! I'll mess up the house and hide in a closet!" -- Sean to the group
"Why wasn't the lawn taken care of?" -- Sol Foster
"Because these are interior decorators." -- Michael Schloss
"The usual bills, 'You may already be an Amberite'..." -- GM to Sean, describing his mail
"You know his dryer is full of socks." -- Andy Dawson
"And none of them match." -- Scott Whitney
"'People are going around redecorating. Solve it.'
'Why?'
'It's annoying Flora.'"
-- GM to ?, paraphrasing Random
"Best Chinese laundry in all of Shadow. One point personal Shadow. It's Flora's." -- GM to ?
"This takes a while because he's as slow as a glacier." -- GM to ?,
regarding a doddering servant at the castle
"He sold down from Human Rank." -- Sol Foster
"He needed the points to buy Advanced Muttering." -- Scott Whitney
"You people..." -- Jennifer Jackson
"Hey, what about those of us who aren't people?" -- Scott Whitney
"I have to keep my wits about me. I might get throw-pillowed." -- Scott Whitney to ?
"Incest pays in Amber." -- Andy Dawson
"If you get caught, it pays with interest." -- Scott Whitney
"Being the Captain of the Guard of the seamy side of town..." -- GM to
Hawk
"...you're sound asleep and well bribed." -- Scott Whitney
"Three at once!" -- Michael Kucharski, on (Nicholas') plans to duel
tonight
"I thought it was three back to back..." -- Sol Foster
"I want to get it done as soon as possible." -- Michael Kucharski
"You know, there were throw pillow size swatches cut out of his clothes, and all his hair was gone." -- Andy Dawson to ?, about a murder
"Sorry, no one wanted to play the forensic pathologist." -- GM
"Scully, after everything you've seen, how can you doubt the existence of
the Courts of Chaos?" -- Jeremy Zimmerman
"All in the same area?" -- Keith, asking about the murders
"All in the suck side of town." -- GM
"You know, your character's Celtic. What your people know as throw pillows, others know as severed heads." -- Andy Dawson to ?
"You've got an infestation of Aztecs!" -- Sol Foster
"Just get a spray for them. They'll be gone in about a week." --
Scott Whitney
"And now I eat the Unicorn! That's my Dworkin moment for the evening." -- GM to ?
"It's half empty! It's half full! It's twice as large as it needs to be!" -- Scott Whitney to ?
"He actually needs a pillowmancer." -- Andy Dawson to ?
<Maximillian bows to the Unicorn Church Cardinal, using his index
finger as a horn>
"If only that was quotable." -- Jeremy Zimmerman
"There's not a drop of liquor in his house. You've been robbed by prohibitionist redecorators." -- GM to Sean
"Sol, hold the GM like a hostage." -- Scott Whitney to Sol Foster
"They buy most of their wine from us." -- Reggie Bayle
"Theirs must be awful..." -- Dane
"So, do you want to go somewhere later?" -- the entirety of Reginald's first eight attempts at luring off Elyssa after the party
"Didn't you have a girlfriend a week ago?" -- Elyssa
"But that was a whole week ago..." -- Reggie
"Why don't you have her now?" -- Elyssa
"She caught me in bed with someone else." -- Reggie
"I think we ought to know each other better." -- Reggie, still trying
to lure off Elyssa
"But I know you Reggie." -- Elyssa
"I mean religiously." -- Reggie
"But I'm not religious..." -- Elyssa
"Neither am I." -- Reggie, smiling
"Care to go out for dinner tomorrow night?" -- Maximillian, after
Reggie's failed attempts
"Sure." -- Elyssa
"What was the name of Bloody Thom's before Thom was killed?" -- GM
<various suggestions are made>
"Bloody Sol's! No, wait! Three-eyed Sol's!" -- GM, answering his own
question
"Recurring jokes! Gotta love 'em." -- Scott Whitney
"So, you've hired the farm boy to investigate the heinous crime?" -- GM
to ?
"It's an absurd crime. Why change the trend now?" -- Scott Whitney
"I guess they need to do some pillow talk." -- Andy Dawson
"No, no. It's bureaucrats. It will be red tape at 30 yards." -- Scott Whitney to ?
"The yard's a crime scene because they didn't mow the lawn? What?!" -- Scott Whitney to ?
"I'm presuming the house is still there?" -- Maximillian
"Actually, I have a funny story about that." -- GM
"My overstuffed chair has had it's head bit off and it's heart torn out. There's stuffing everywhere!" -- Maximillian to ?
"Go check my sofa. See if my throw pillows are missing." -- Maximillian to GM, after discovering a large quantity of imported booze in his home
"Send a servant over to Captain O'Donovan, let him know he misplaced his alcohol in my pantry." -- Maximillian to GM
"We say 'likes' in this game because 'incest' is harder to spell." -- GM to the group
"There are several things you can do to other people that don't involve
their consent." -- Scott Whitney
"They usually involve throw pillows." -- Sarah Kindred
"Wear a mask. It helps you." -- Dane to Reggie
"Until you open your mouth." -- Sol Foster
"Anyone in the peanut gallery have any comments to add about Reggie?"
-- Jeremy Zimmerman
"They're all too easy." -- Blake Moorcroft
"So is Reggie." -- Sarah Kindred
"Max is a bit of a dilettante, he attends all the best parties, wears
the latest fashions, etc." -- Scott Whitney
"Just like Reggie." -- Jeremy Zimmerman
"Only classier." -- everyone
"My name is Blake, and I'm an alcoholic religious fanatic." -- Blake Moorcroft introducing his character to the group
"(Abigail) resembles an aging but once attractive woman in her
mid-forties." -- Sarah Kindred
"Ah, so she's like a fine wine." -- Jeremy Zimmerman
"Yes, she'll leave you on the floor with a headache." -- Sarah Kindred
"Miss Darcy, I have a proposition for you." -- Abigail
"I've tried that line before, and it's never gotten me anywhere." --
Reggie
"And I've already told you, I'd much rather be friends, because I know how
many (jewelry) receipts (for your women) I get from you each month, and I
don't want to be a receipt." -- Elyssa
"There are some things involving foliage that the church frowns on." -- Morgan to Reggie
"The church has come up with a new term for you: vegiality." -- Morgan to Reggie
"Why are there so many priests in this restaurant?" -- Reggie to Elyssa, during their second date
"Are we all taking turns playing Sol's instrument?" -- Liz Trumitch to
the group
"It's fun, but it's a little hard to play because it's so big." -- Sol
Foster
"Shhhhh. Dramatic screwing moment." -- Kris Fazzari to the group
"Keith, feel free to make the weird noises." -- GM to Keith
"It's those gnomes, they put nuclear generators into the grapes, that's why Bayle's Piss tastes so bad." -- Dane to the group, hallucinating after being poisoned
"The Bastille has landed. I must storm it to destroy the postman-hamster conspiracy." -- Dane to the group, still hallucinating
"I throw my glove at the gazebo and challenge it to a duel. 'What, you
cur! Have at you!'" -- Dane
"OK, so you're currently engaged in a duel to the death with the gazebo."
-- GM
"You know, there was this one time when you were sick with that one perfect flu of which all other flus are but Shadows..." -- GM to Sean
"So we're sleeping the sleep of the innocent, or the lucky...or maybe
the unlucky." -- Kris Fazzari
"Or the dead." -- Scott Whitney
"No, I'm not really interested in going to where the screaming is." -- Elyssa to GM
"Your follicles are overdrawn. You'll have to come back with me to the toaster for questioning." -- the still hallucinating Dane to Madeline
"I'm on to your wily lamp shade ways." -- Dane
"Your light bulb needs changing." -- Madeline
"Dane begins unscrewing his nose." -- Michael Schloss
"You've been tied up by sailors." -- GM to Dane
"Dane's eyes suddenly widen in horror." -- Michael Schloss
"Two out of three captains destroy Bayle property." -- Blake Moorcroft to the group
"If I find out my husband is a crazy nuthouse who murders prostitutes, there's going to be an issue." -- Juliana to the group
"I am cute when I have a whip." -- Liz Trumitch to the group
"(Detective Garrett's) partners have a habit of dying nastily, which is why she works alone." -- Sarah Kindred to the group
"(Sean) has weird stuff." -- Sarah Kindred to the group, after hearing how Captain O'Donovan's ship sank due to hitting a reef that wasn't there before
"When the large, buff, black captain is screaming like a girl, it's
time to leave the room." -- Liz Trumitch
"I was possessed, God damn it!" -- Sol Foster
"So (Garrett) is casting a spell that will protect us after we're dead." -- Sean to GM
"All of the Feldanes look somewhat alike." -- Max to GM
"That's because of all the incest." -- Jeremy Zimmerman
"I'm Reginald Bayle, I'm never rude. Crass, tactless, but never rude." -- Reggie to the group
"Caine and the north fleet are going to be arriving." -- GM
"Good. I can use the north fleet." -- Juliana
"I've had quite enough to drink." -- Reggie, First Rank Drinker, to the group
"So I'm coming back from sea and I know there's a carnival going on? Can I borrow a pen, I need to figure out what spells I have ready." -- Sean to GM
"I don't want to seem more human, I want to be feared, now go away." -- GM to Sarah Kindred
"Your sister and I rarely see each other." -- Varien to Madeline
"What, do you keep the lights out most of the time?" -- Scott Whitney
"It was hell for Eric to teach (Arryl) how to catch." -- GM
"I do not chase der stick." -- Arryl
"I do." -- DCI Garrett
"Where is my bodyguard! You might want to save me from the drunk horse people." -- Juliana to the group
"Max is icky." -- Garrett, complaining about why she can't get laid
"Only because you smeared me with alcohol." -- Max
"Daubed. Daubed at best, and only because you asked me to." -- Garrett
"I don't sleep on land because it doesn't rock, so I sleep on my ship."
-- Wesley
"I can make your house rock." -- Garrett
"I'm going to stay at sea and just have sex with the crew." -- Wesley to Garrett
"Hobart is chased, but not with a 'T'." -- Jennifer Jackson and Sarah Kindred to the group
"Arryl boogies out of here." -- GM
"I don't boogie. I polka." -- Arryl
"Are we a team on this?" -- Garrett
"I know what happens to your partners." -- Max
"As everyone else lies unconscious and bleeding, (Elyssa and Wesley) have lunch." -- Michael Curry to the group
"There's the political angle, there's the fantastic sex, there's the mind-numbing terror...." -- Scott Whitney to the group, on the advantages of getting involved with a member of the royal family
"I think that when I'm lobster red, it's going to be hard to seduce Gérard." -- Juliana to the group
"We like Benedict. He never talks to us." -- Wesley to the group
"I learned a lot while I was unconscious." -- Sean to the group
"This dress is coming off before the night is over." -- Liz Trumitch to the group
"This is not a summoning, it's not about control." -- Garrett to GM,
explaining the séance she's about to hold
"We're just saying 'Hi'" -- Elyssa
"This is how I'm going to talk to Philip in the future when he's dead.
Put out his alcohol. Sit there and drink." -- Juliana
"This is how you talk to him now!" -- GM
"If Juliana tells you that your sex life is messed up, you are so far beyond fucked up...." -- GM to the group
"The three rules of magic are consent, similarity, and I'm too drunk to remember." -- Garrett to Elyssa, Wesley and Varien
"I have no connection to you." -- Varien
"Well, I could use a secretary." -- Garrett
"I'm sure I could find you one." -- Varien
"Gérard could resist our combined will. A trained ferret could resist our combined will." -- Varien to Wesley
"We stop by the kitchen and bring Arryl a huge breakfast." -- Garrett to
GM
"What do you want?" -- Arryl, when she sees the breakfast
"I am expendable." -- Garrett
"Don't I wish!" -- Max
"I care (about Genevieve)." -- Varien to the group
"He's done her." -- Liz Trumitch
"That doesn't mean (he) cares." -- D.J. Quinn
"So the short form is stay alert, trust no one, and keep your laser handy." -- Garrett to the group
"Lots of bad things are always happening in Southside." -- GM to
Ambrose
"And yet, the Duchess keeps hanging out there." -- Kris
"That's where all the whores are." -- Liz
"You didn't give me your body so much as I just took it." -- O'Donovan to Juliana
"Juliana has more endurance than me?" -- O'Donovan
"Why do you think she's so popular?" -- GM
"Anything happen of note (in your dream)?" -- Eric
"I was unable to send a warning back through space and time, so no." --
Juliana
"Feel free to lie to Gérard. Everyone else does." -- GM to Genevieve
"Honestly? I would have killed me." -- Genevieve to the group
"Am I concussed? Sweet! I hear that will leave a permanent lump on my head to join the many other ones there." -- O'Donovan to GM
"You know, it's a terrible thing when the 2,000-year-old mage is currently the physically toughest in your party." -- Sol to the group
"I think (Gérard's) really far away. Like we're someplace that we
didn't want to be." -- Ambrose
"I think we figured that out already." -- Madeline
"Are all Chris' plots about you having sex with elders?" -- Sean
McCabe
"(Juliana does) not sleep around. I don't know why (she has) this
reputation of sleeping around!" -- Liz Trumitch to the group
"Because (she) sleeps around?" -- Kris Fazzari
"Eric's just this weenie who's the son of the King." -- Wesley
"That's his Royal Highness." -- GM
"That's his Royal Highness Weenie." -- Wesley
"That's his Royal Weenie." -- Juliana
"John's Son is 6'4" tall and 300 pounds, without the fat." -- Glen
Seymour
"So your job is that you're Gérard's stunt double, is that what you
do for a living?" -- Bill Gulstad
"The thinking is that Oberon will come back with one of two things - a
Queen..." -- GM to the group
"Or a social disease." -- Michael Curry
"(Juliana) talks to a lot of people, and she's been talking to a lot of
people for most of her life." -- Liz Trumitch
"That's the problem." -- Kris Fazzari
"What are normal business hours for a pirate?" -- Michael Curry to the group
"Do you have rules against excessive violence?" -- Griz
"Apparently not." -- Wrenn, looking at the excessively beaten body
"We don't consider sex a skill." -- Juliana to the group
"Philip is used to this crap." -- Juliana to the group
"Used to in the sense of resigned to it, maybe." -- Kris Fazzari
"OK, now I have something to do." -- Elissa to the group, after learning that her mother's been murdered
"You live for craziness, Darling." -- Juliana
"With!" -- Philip
"(Juliana's) more likely to have sex with the horse than with Varien." -- Liz to the group
"Truth is a three-edged sword - first you cut yourself on it, then you do a blood rune, then everybody dies." -- Ambrose to the group
"(Philip and I) have an agreement about Southside." -- Juliana
"Yeah, he's going to burn it to the ground." -- GM
"Really? I thought we were going to paint it all pink." -- Juliana
"I don't usually blow people up. Usually I just get possessed." -- O'Donovan to the group
"A pretty iron mask is still an iron mask." -- Juliana to the group
"Ambrose looks like he might fall over dead any second. But then again, he often looks like that." -- GM to Madeline
"If Ambrose wants to fuck himself royally, and not in a good way that involves Deirdre or Llewella...." -- GM to Madeline
"I'm Max Feldane, proud father." -- Scott Whitney
"Of what?" -- GM
"Wake me up when I die." -- Ethan to the group
"I have never tasted Max Feldane, so therefore I don't know." -- Wesley to Juliana
"Juliana didn't even succeed in marrying me off in her dreams." -- Jennifer Jackson to the group
"I'm going to need Phillip later, when I get done with the rest of these boys." -- Juliana to GM
"Just spear it and then rotate." -- Ian Ng
"It's a little frozen." -- Liz Trumitch
"This party is dead." -- O'Donovan to the group, at Bishop Morgan's wake
"The happy news is: Bishop Morgan de Chastellan - still dead." -- GM to the group
"I don't want to conjure with (Morgan's body), I just want to set it on fire!" -- Max to the group
"This card entitles you to one act of high treason, submitted by Oberon." -- Scott Whitney to the group
Hellriders have passed through here
since October 3, 2004.
Done by Kris Fazzari.
Last modified on June 9, 2005 by Kris Fazzari.