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"Trump *ON*! Trump! I beseech thee!" -- Alastair (no memory version) "I believe I can lead us out of here. Grab on behind and form a conga line." -- Alastair "You fool! That could destroy us all!" -- Sand "We could pretend this isn't happening, go back and have scones and tea." -- Farad "I hate scones." -- Alastair "(The army) won't last a week." -- Duncan "A week?" -- Farad "Yes." -- Duncan "You can put a whole lot of living into a week." -- Farad "Farad's spell peters out at half the usual distance." -- GM "Don't you hate it when your spell peters out at half the usual distance?" -- Duncan "Lilith is confronting Brand at his Pattern. Let us go and kick him in the head multiple times." -- Alastair "Where'd you get that hawk?" -- Farad "Wouldn't you like to know?" -- Duncan "I *think* that's why he asked." -- Sand "I kneel. I say 'My allegiance is yours,' with all the sincerity that I ever do." -- Sand "Wait. You two are fighting over something *Bleys* gave you?" -- John "Oh yeah. 'Here, you take it.'" -- Duncan to Farad "Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- GM "Whereas just a little makes us silly." -- Rasa "(Brand) used to be my friend." -- Gabriel "Weirdo." -- Mer "How is it your flag flies above Amber?" -- Gabriel to Brand "Well, you see, it's by a system of ropes and pulleys..." -- Mer "I'm sure (Julian) will be as little trouble as Corwin." -- Brand to Gabriel re: Julian's escape "Which is like saying 'as little trouble as God.'" -- John "Don't worry, I'm not in my right mind." -- Farad to Duncan, while chipping away at Duncan's stone-bound body "(Lilith) is Corwin's daughter, you prick." -- Brand "Well, don't blame me!" -- Alastair "I attempt to Trump Benedict." -- Steve "No luck." -- GM "I attempt to Trump Caine." -- GM "He's dead!" -- Mer "Well, is it warm or cold? Oh... wait, I don't have any Trump." -- Steve
"(Rebma's Pattern) fades in and out as you watch." -- GM "What's causing it?" -- Alastair "The tide." -- GM "Is there a moon orbiting the planet at a height of three feet?" -- Alastair "What are you doing, Alastair?" -- GM "Picking my nose." -- Alastair "Alastair's very easy to manipulate." -- Fiona to Colin "Bring it on, pawn-boy." -- Alastair "How is the tide of battle going?" -- Duncan "They've got you outnumbered." -- GM "Oh, that's bad." -- Duncan "What's attacking me? People in armor and shit?" -- Lilith "No, Black Road, ugly, demon things." -- GM "No need for armor, just ugliness." -- Dann "There's some sort of odd power disturbance out in Shadow." -- Alastair "How odd is that? It happens every week!" -- Gabriel "Do I know what the other PCs are doing? Granted they don't know themselves..." -- Dann to GM "You wouldn't happen to be related to Alastair of Amber?" -- Duncan "He's my evil father. Now die, Amber scum!" -- Sebastian "We advance tactically to the rear." -- Duncan to GM "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours." -- Sand, referring to her Trump deck "Mine's very small and unimpressive." -- Alastair "Do you have a Trump of Lilith?" -- Alastair "If I had a Trump of Lilith, why would I be tracking her down?" -- Sand "As (Farad) recovers, I continue to draw blood from him." -- Duncan to GM "Oh, that will speed his recovery along." -- John "Do I have a sense that there's an intelligence behind it?" -- Gabriel to GM "What are we, on the Starship Enterprise?" -- John "We're talking to Colin, but he refuses to divulge anything useful." -- Alastair to GM "Maybe if you asked useful questions." -- Colin "Did I talk to you at some point while you were an idiot?" -- Dann "Well, you're talking to me now." -- Steve "Alastair is obviously more sensitive." -- GM to Lilith "I've noticed that about you. I find that very attractive." -- Sand to Alastair "We didn't see (the Jewel) on (Lilith), which leads me to suspect she has it." -- Rasa to Alastair "I Trump to Amber." -- Alastair "You appear in Bramber." -- GM "I leave." -- Alastair "Take me to someone in charge." -- Gabriel "Why should I?" -- Chaosite "Because, if you don't, I'll kill you, and then talk to someone in charge." -- Gabriel "Take me to someone in charge who isn't trying to kill me." -- Gabriel to another Chaosite "Brand does something, and all of your generals fall dead." -- GM "OK, I promote all the colonels." -- Duncan "Merrie, what are you doing?" -- GM "Well, I'm taking the game log, but Rasa..." -- Merrie "It's against Brand." -- Rasa "Everyone keeps telling me that, and I keep helping them, but I don't get anything out of it." -- Colin "You can have your very own clone of Farad." -- Rasa "Then I wouldn't feel so bad about being useless." -- Dann "You were very useful to me." -- Kris "Shut up!" -- Dann "I triple dog dare you to stab (Fiona) in the back of the head." -- Steve to Dann "So, I give (Fiona) the drug, and she's all better now, right?" -- Colin "Well, actually, she has seizures." -- GM "Oh, that was what we were working towards." -- Tony "The trick is to get (Brand) so pissed off that he starts making mistakes. I read that somewhere." -- Colin
"Stopping the Black Road will drain me." -- Lilith "Then, by all means, proceed." -- Alastair "It's taking a long time, you're getting a massive headache." -- GM "Fucking Pattern!" -- Colin "(Sand) is tied to this bed that's burning, and screaming." -- GM "The bed is screaming?" -- Alastair "You're not quite that strong, Mr. Not-Gerard" -- GM to Alastair "Your Pattern skills are even weaker." -- GM "Lame." -- Dann "OK, your Pattern skills are even lamer." -- GM "Just don't piss yourself, whatever you do." -- Steve "You know, Suhuy. The big nasty guy who could kick my ass without even trying." -- Dann "That describes any number of people." -- Kris "Shut up!" -- Dann "Brand may be stupid, but he is powerful." -- Lilith to Alastair "You're starting to feel strange." -- GM "It was the food the hotel sent up, the fuckers!" -- Colin "Get us the fuck out, oh shapeshifter dude!" -- Colin to Suhuy "(Fiona's) either out of range, unconscious, or dead." -- GM "Cool!" -- Alastair "I'm going to use Morse code and tell him "Farad, you dumb-ass, answer your Trump. And he can understand it, because it's in Thari-Morse." -- Rasa to GM "How do you find (Fiona)? -- GM "I'm real sly about it. I think of some method that neither you nor I would." -- Dann "Why did I let (Farad) wake up?" -- John "Because you were stupid and let the GM control you." -- Kris "Geez, if it's that easy to distract (Brand), let's just get a posse of chairs." -- Merrie, after someone distracted Brand by throwing a chair at him "I'm going to Trump Farad for an hour straight, and when I collapse, you start. Persistence makes the heart grow fonder." -- Rasa to Lilith "(Chaosites) are not difficult when you deal with them the way I do." -- Gabriel "Beat them into submission?" -- Lilith "Well, I didn't beat them *all* into submission." -- Gabriel "Fealty, shmealty. They ask me to swear, I do. It makes them feel better." -- Gabriel to Lilith "Lilith tells me that it would be a poor idea to tell (Brand) that she's planning to destroy his Pattern. I don't understand this." -- Gabriel to Corwin "I Trump (Lilith)." -- Sand "It doesn't go through." -- GM "I go have a good meal, then." -- Sand "I am Alastair the mighty, I do what Gabriel says." -- Alastair "Wait, if you're Alastair the mighty, why are you following other people's advice?" -- John "I walk the Pattern in my mind." -- Colin "You get an image of Brand's Pattern in your mind, and you fall down screaming." -- GM "I don't do that again." -- Colin "Do I get the feeling that Alastair being consumed by the Black Road is not a good thing?" -- Gabriel to GM "Alastair, I assume you're not feeling a certain oneness with (the Black) Road?" -- Gabriel "Not in a good sense." -- Alastair "Brand appears and tries to run Lilith through." -- GM "Brand. Stop it." -- Gabriel "You set foot on the Pattern and burst into flames." -- GM to Rasa "Stop, drop and roll." -- Ian "I'll walk the Pattern, but I won't like it." -- Rasa to GM
"You're in the middle of Forest Arden, and you're still smoking." -- GM to Rasa "Don't you know that's bad for your health?" -- Dann "There's no way I can take that army down there, right?" -- Lilith to GM "Why do you think my father is insane?" -- Farad "Well, you told me that he's your father." -- Alastair "Any manias Farad has about world-domination are amplified by the Spikard." -- GM "There's not much room for them to grow." -- Farad "Do I have a Trump of Colin?" -- Alastair to GM "I'm right here, fool!" -- Colin "You see this horse riding down the black road towards you." -- GM "Just a horse?" -- Farad "Well, there's someone on it, of course." -- GM "Why don't we Trump Brand and mentally dominate him?" -- Alastair to Farad "Brand, we'll give you the Jewel, but first we must discuss terms. You know you can't defeat both of us." -- Alastair to Brand, referring to himself and Farad "I already walked (Brand's Pattern) once. I don't want to die." -- Rasa "Third time's a charm." -- Alastair (Brand) draws his sword and advances on you." -- GM to Farad "Is he drawing his sword in the Trump artist sense, or in the fighting sense?" -- Alastair "Sand, what are you doing?" -- GM "The guards." -- Steve "My allegiances grow only more confused, Ganelon." -- Gabriel "Oh fine, let Eric have the fucking Jewel. Let him put his ass on the line." -- Lilith to GM "If I die, I would like Lilith to succeed me on the throne." -- Corwin to Gabriel "Oh, fuck!" -- Lilith "You can't beat me up, because you owe me." -- Colin "That's OK, I can beat you up and owe you double." -- Rasa "Does anyone have a Trump of Mara?" -- Alastair "No." -- GM "Well, I'll just wait for her to drop a Trump of herself." -- Alastair "You make mental contact with a sub-lieutenant, who falls to the ground throwing up blood." -- GM "At this rate I'll conquer the army by the end of the world." -- Alastair "I am Sebastian, son of Alastair." -- Sebastian "That's odd. I know Alastair, and I don't recall him having any children. Of course, I don't know him very well." -- Alastair "Do you have the Jewel?" -- Rasa "No, but I know who does." -- Lilith "Cool. It's not Gabriel, is it?" -- Rasa "I am Colin, Prince of Amber." -- Alastair "Does he realize that I'm in the room?" -- Colin to GM "Yes, but I say it anyway." -- Alastair "Where are they?" -- Alastair "We're in the center of the Pattern. I'm not stupid." -- Lilith "Oh?" -- Alastair "I didn't pick you (as the one to attune to the Jewel), did I?" -- Lilith "Brand stops mentally dominating you while Greyswandir is in him." -- GM "Well, I leave it there." -- Alastair "You get this strange feeling, but then it passes." -- GM "Oh well, I guess I'll live with it. It can't be worse than the rest of my life." -- Alastair
"(Oberon's Trump) is cold sometimes, but sort of not." -- GM to Alastair "You want to steal the Jewel." -- Rasa "How do you know?" -- Alastair "Because I want to steal it." -- Rasa "So, did we win?" -- Farad "Yes. Everyone, in fact, except Brand, did win." -- Sand "Actually, (Brand's) still dead, right?" -- Alastair to GM "Don't you think I would have noticed that I was too tired to walk the Pattern?" -- Alastair "With your ego, it's hard to tell." -- GM "There's a Black Road leading up to the castle gates." -- Alric, Brand's chief functionary "Oh, bummer." -- Farad "I can't be coronated Queen unless Oberon is dead." -- Lilith to Rasa and Colin "That statement could be taken two ways, Lilith." -- Alastair "(Eric) throws a chair at you." -- GM "I duck." -- Colin "Unlike Brand." -- Rasa "This is why he's dead, and I'm not." -- Colin "Let's just let the Chaos people in." -- Farad to Sand "The Chaos people are flooding through the castle, killing everyone in sight." -- GM "How rude." -- Alastair "I avoid them." -- Farad "Did (Mara) actually hit me? How totally unnecessary." -- Farad to GM "Corwin's dead, want his head?" -- Rasa to Lilith "I trust Farad about as far as I can kick him." -- Colin to Fiona "How was your day?" -- Alastair "I found a dead head of Corwin." -- Rasa "There's not enough there to hold a personality." -- GM, referring to the strange Chaos creature "So, basically it's just like Sand." -- Lilith "Are you supposed to be scary, or just some bird/lizard circus sideshow freak?" -- Colin to Rasa "Do you realize that you can be used to make pillows and suitcases?" -- Colin to Rasa "Alastair?" -- Tain "Maybe..." -- Alastair "Well, Benedict sent me to help you." -- Tain "Then I am he." -- Alastair "Free yourself from those chains, and I'll pull you through." -- Alastair to Farad "You feel the Logrus pouring through your body." -- GM "I raise Pattern." -- Alastair "It's Tain." -- GM "Oh. Never mind." -- Alastair "You aren't having much luck with the boltcutters." -- GM "Did I mention that my bolt cutters are made out of adamantium?" -- Alastair "What is (Alastair) doing?" -- Farad "He's trying to psychically dominate your chains." -- GM "Is it working any better than the bolt cutters?" -- Farad
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