The last session drew to a close with several of the players in Amber, and the rest out achieving their own goals.


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After visiting Danville in the infirmary, Volkazz decided to check out the Amber library for clues concerning recent events. Haplo also accompanied Volkazz, possibly through lack of anything else to do. After meeting with the master of the household, the pair gained access to the library, and Volkazz began searching for the books he wanted. The lack of a decent filing system made this substantially more difficult than it had first appeared. Then Haplo called Volkazz over, asking him to watch out for anything strange happening, and he seemed to be concentrating on something at the far end of the room. Then suddenly Haplo vanished. With lack of better ideas, Volkazz decided to keep on looking

There now follows a period where many players were doing their own thing (blatantly including this chronicler of course, though perhaps not of his own devising... Then again perhaps it was... Isn't it frustrating seeing things like that in the log?). Perhaps this can be best summarised in the phrase "time passes..."


After a while Atathon got in touch with Haplo with a more direct method than is usually employed - he appeared right next to Haplo, presumably accompanied by the mandatory little "floomp" noise. He then proceeded to inform Haplo of a very worrying series of events...

Another note from the chronicler (aren't you lucky this week...) - this is precisely what I have said above, the series of events as described by Atathon. Further viewpoints may be added to this log after the chronicler has spoken to other player characters...

Ed. I would just like to add that the story told by those others involved in it is likely to be different, and WILL be detailed here, when our chronicler is told it.
Currently you only have one persons tale, no matter how accurate.

Atathon was with Faustus, close to the barrier discussed in the previous log entry. At this point, due to a previously agreed arrangement, Frederick trumped Faustus and said "come and help me.." but did not seem to want Atathon to accompany him. So Faustus then went through the trump, and Atathon watched from afar (probably unbeknownst to the other characters).

As soon as Faustus arrived, Martin, who was there with Frederick, swung a sword at his unprotected back. There ensued a short but bloody struggle, and it's outcome was fairly predictable - Faustus was cruelly slain, with Martin striking the final blow. At this point someone of great power intervened, and Atathon broke the contact for fear of discovery.

After Atathon explained this, Haplo agreed to accompany him to the site of the murder. Atathon quickly scanned the area, and saw a demonic figure kneeling and scratching an image into a rock close to the barrier - in fact he seemed to be sketching the scene in front of him.

For the players this was in fact Alexander, the new player character.

As Haplo and Atathon teleported in, they noticed several demonic corpses lying around, being fed upon by the dragons circling in the sky above. Over the next few minutes, both Atathon and Haplo concentrated on various things, though always leaving one to watch over the stranger who kept on drawing the image, acknowledging their presence with a grunt.

Suddenly, seemingly taking all the characters by surprise, the barrier vanished and the familiar green grass meadows which had previously surrounded the tree became visible momentarily, and then a flash blinded the characters for a few seconds. When their vision cleared the barrier had reappeared, and now a red line (Now we're getting into familiar territory) had appeared, emerging from the barrier and ending at the rock which Alexander had been sketching on.

At this point Haplo expressed a desire to 'examine' the line more closely. Having witnessed Haplo's 'experiments' with the line before, Atathon decided that while scientific curiosity was all very well, he was not yet ready to risk becoming a martyr for the pursuit of knowledge and that leaving the shadow quickly was definately a good move. Alexander also picked up on this and left.