As the previous session drew to a close, many of the players were still doing their own things in various places. Haplo was with Alexander, who had reappeared moments ago, and Danville was still in the Amber infirmiry. The locations of the other players were unconfirmed.


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As Haplo and Alexander were talking, Danville appeared looking substantially healthier than he had when Haplo had left him. After Danville and Alexander had introduced themselves Haplo explained to Danville that Faustus was dead, but could not give much more information. Danville then asked Alexander if he had tried to cross the barrier. Alexander explained he had attempted to use an image of the other side of the barrier to pass through, and also described the consequences of attempting this. (Please see previous log entry)

At this point Atathon also reappeared. He expressed concern that Amber would be rather nervous when news of Faustus reached them, and that it might perhaps be a wise move to proceed with caution.

He then proceeded to explain to Alexander about the blood of Amber. In response to Alexander's question concerning how many of this blood existed, he responded "Fewer today than yesterday..."

Alexander and Atathon then left together, and shortly after Haplo left as well leaving Danville alone.

Since all the players were apart for the next section, none of the events were logged. Suffice to say that eventually all the players made it to a shadow of Fiona's containing an Edwardian villa where Frederick was being held for murder.

Random was obviously impatient as the last of the players arrived, and after irritably asking "is there anyone ELSE who needs to be here?" pointed to Frederick and demanded to know "why did you kill my son?"

At this point it may be worth noting the reactions of the elder Amberites. Fiona and was sitting back, seemingly fairly relaxed (under the circumstances). Bleys was calm, and Flora looked somewhat bemused. Corwin (unsurprisingly) was looking depressed, Benedict was looking as only Benedict can and Gerard was definately looking unhappy. Random, however, was verging on the psychotic.

Frederick began to recount his version of recent events...

The following section is presented as Frederick's narative, with comments intersposed from other characters.

"I and Martin had noticed Faustus had been behaving strangely. He had been seen in the company of Atathon, who had tried to kill Martin in the past. We therefor suspected Fastus of betraying Amber..."

Fiona was beginning to look disgruntled at this point.

"Thus Martin and I decided that Faustus should be eliminated for his actions..."

Fiona definately was looking rather annoyed at this point.

Random then interjected "Is there anyone who can confirm this?" to which Frederick shook his head. "How convenient..." was Random's response.

"We then teleported through the barrier using the pattern, and trumped faustus with the intention of luring him through the contact and killing him."

Bleys at this point asked "Why did you feel it necessary to go into the barrier?"

"We did it so nobody from the courts of chaos could interfere with out actions. We managed to contact Faustus, and pulled him through the contact..."

Julian then interuppted by asking Atathon "weren't you with Faustus at this point?" to which Atathon explained he didn't particularly want to get involved with someone who had Frederick's previous record of reactions to chaos.

"Yes, Atathon was there with Faustus, but we didn't want him interfering so we told Faustus to come alone which he did. After he had arraived, Martin attacked immediately. Faustus tried to defend himself, but was dead after a few blows. Following this the gravity in the area seemed to disappear and we couldn't move. Three dragons appeared and attacked Martin, while I was the target of thrown spears. I attempted to sprout wings, for I do have this power, but some magic prevented me. At this point I contacted Bleys my father and he pulled me to safety, but was not in time to rescue Martin."

At this point Random asked Atathon for his version of events - his reply was the same as was detailed in the previous log entry. One of the major discrepancies with Frederick's story was that Atathon was sure the events took place outside the barrier, as opposed to inside. To this Frederick shrugged and replied "I had thought we were inside the barrier..."

Random then asked Atathon to speculate on the 'greater power' which had intervened after Faustus' death. Atathon replied that it was something of chaos, but was unsure exactly what. He further explained his relationship with Faustus as 'cordial' and that he had been interested in finding out more about Amber from Faustus.

At this point Frederick asked of Atathon "how did you know I would want to kill you?" Atathon gave a slight smile and said "I had observed your actions from anothers point of view..." and his form slowly slid into the familiar shape of Ralthus.

Danville then confirmed that when Martin had first met Atathon, he had immediately attacked him and was also very hostile to Faustus.

Upon Atathon asking Frederick what had made him suspect Faustus, he said "as I have already said Martin informed me you had already tried to kill him, and Faustus had been associating with you. It is a little flimsy I admit..."

Haplo then asked why Frederick did not act against Atathon directly, perhaps with the aid of the elder Amberites. Frederick replied that Martin had indeed spoken with Random before they walked the pattern, and that their plans had all been known to him.

Alexander then confirmed, with the aid of a trump picture from Atathon, that the person he had seen being consumed with fire after being attacked by dragons in the shadow with the barrier had indeed been Martin.

With an air of finality, Fiona then said "I think before we recess two more matters need to be resolved - we must speak further with Alexander, and I would also like to know where Atathon aquired a trump of Martin..."

Atathon replied "I'm afraid it would be more than my life's worth to divulge that information - suffice to say it would be in my interests to have a trump of someone who had attacked me in the past..."


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The session ended with the council recessing for lunch.