Session Two

Jordan is watching the 1942(?) Olympics, the one where lots of Black Americans beat the Nazi Germany participants in the track and field events... In this version, however, something 'odd' happens and the Nazis win the race. Afterwards, Jorden follows the Nazis to their locker room to see if they were cheating somehow, and witnesses an obviously mind-controlled Gold-Medal winner hand the medal over to a small man wearing small sunglasses with two BIG bodyguards with him. After the Trackster leaves, Jorden watches the three disappear through a trump.

Selena is in the midst of battle, serving as a commander in a Duke's army against a rebel baron in a medieval shadow near her 'home' shadow. During the fighting, Sel notices 5 horsemen ride up on either side of the Duke, who is overlooking the battle from a high hill. The riders pull out laser-sighted sub-machineguns and gun the Duke down. One of the Riders leaps down and retrieves something from the Duke, while Sel drops behind a rock and start sniping at the riders with a 9mm semi-automatic she kept concealed in this shadow in case of emergency (she likes archaic, but appreciates the finer points of technology, apparently). The Riders ride off (appropriatly), Sel hops up on a nearby horse and gives chase, but the riders are moving through shadow in a way that is faster and certainly much more pleasant than Sel's Broken Pattern: They ride on the road, she's shifting through the swamp on the side of the road... etc. etc... at one point early on, the leader of that troop trumps Sel and attempts a Mind-rape, which Sel fends off... Ticked off and wanting answers, she starts shifting towards Amber to quiz those more knowledgable than herself.

Chance is enjoying his role as Wizard-advisor to Ghenghis Khan when the Warlord's pavilion is attacked by many small and two Huge demonforms... One of them snatches up a small artifact that Ghenghis had just gotten as booty from a temple raid, the other raises havok amongst the troops. Chance mentally attacks the Havok-raiser and puppets him... driving it on towards the young robed man in red up on a hillside. The other large demon delivers the artifact to the man in red, who then trumps away.

Jorden is trumped by Bleys who asks that he gather up those of the Younger generation that he can and have them come to Amber, they are needed.

Jorden tries to trump Sel, who is already on her way to Amber, but she's paranoid about trumps right now, and blocks.

Jorden trumps Chance, who says he'll get there as soon as he can.

Sel gets there first, and starts querying the elders assembled about who the people she ran into might be. Jorden arrives, taking credit for Sel's timely arrival ... Chance arrives fashionably late, using a trump trick of his that lets him slip through a trump contact and to that person's location (only works if their guard is down--he did this to Bleys, who was not amused). Chance immediatly steps up to the planning table and starts peering at papers, which Fiona gathers up away from him. Now it's Chance's turn to be unamused.

Bleys, Fiona, and Random explain that a group of artifacts that Oberon apparently disposed of way way back when have been sitting out in Shadow for awhile, apparantly released from their shadow pockets when the Pattern was damaged. These objects, when united, allow the possesor access to and control of the Primal pattern (at least that's Fiona's best guess). Apparently, someone in Chaos found one of em... and is using it to find the next ones... judging from the stories of Chance, Sel, and Jorden, they now have four--there are nine. The elders need the kids to try to track down some clue as to the location of the other pieces.

Now Caine steps in, mentioning that he saw the Unicorn in the Grove yesterday, and takes this as a sign, suggesting that the group go to the Grove and try to track down the Unicorn from there, perhaps it will lead them to one of the pieces? Not having a better idea, Chance, Jorden, and Vincent (showed up in the middle of the conversation) are going to try this. Selena doesn't like Caine or his idea, and doesn't want to travel with Chance, so it going to use the fact she had a fair psychic impression of the medallion that the Duke was wearing (the item the Chaosites stole) to try to shadow walk to either that item or one of it's kin. She sets off alone, the rest try to hellride after the Unicorn.

Selena shadow shifts through some lousy places for a day or so, and comes upon a castle... there are wolf/rat things guarding the front gate, the nearby guards are dead, and she hears screaming from inside... She races through the wolves and into the courtyard, meeting a man in full armor coming out the keep. They do battle, and Selena is heavily outmatched in both strength and swordplay... The armored man makes his way out of the keep and sics his hounds on her as he rides off. She avoids the hounds and tries to track him through shadow... she gets really close to Chaos, byt is getting into some pretty nasty places, and ddoesn't have shapeshifting to deal with the environs, so has to retreat to Amber.

The other gang rides into an odd town where there's a big wedding party going on in the town square... lots of people wearing pink... as they wade through this crowd (something tells them something is suppposed to happen here), they run into some Chaosites coming the other way... the small woman Sel saw previously, and the man in Red, now wearing a Red Doublebreasted suit and sunglasses. They have two thugs with them.

Jorden wipes out one of the brutes with one smack to the top of the noggin, and Chance mide-wipes the other, but gets backhanded by the Man in Red for his trouble. Chance's shoulder hurts. Vincent goes after Redshirt with a sword, who is using a slender lampost he uprooted to block him. Jorden faces off agaisnt the woman, who pulls out a pair of knives that grow into a pair of swords immediately (neat trick, that).

Redshirt grabs Vincent in a bearhug, and Chance sneaks up behind Redshirt. Jorden gets a wristlock on the woman, who looks to be going for a mind attack now that there is skin contact.

Chance touches Redshirt on the back of the neck, Locking up his muscles and Mind-raping him--not too successful, but he does get the names of of the woman and Redshirt: Eren and Cordmarre. Vincent is still in the bearhug, and a couple things in his ribs are popping... Chance tries something fancy, like a Puppeting, but that lets Cordmarre break control, he drops Vince and backhands Chance (again), who goes flying (again), and this time his shoulder separates (yowch).

Jordan opts for no mental defence at all, going for a full out physical attack... he launches Eren through the central gazebo as she blasts his brain... both are messed up... Eren trumps away, as does Cordmarre.

Chance 'fixes' Jordan's pain-in-the-brain, but uses that time to implant a suggestion or two and download lots of nifty personal info... Jordan isn't sure what exactly hapened, but feels alittle better, so gives up on worrying. Vincent binds his ribs and Chance wraps his shoulder...

Chance and Jordan trump to Chance's Aztech shadow, where Chance is a god. Vince trumps back to his home, high-tech shadow, where he is a major Corporate Mogul (ie: God) for some proper health-care.