"There is going to be a time when sharing all your information is going to bite you in the butt." -- Breann, after Quinn tries to get the whole family to attune the Jewel
"Aha! The ass bite-age is coming." -- Breann, after Dworkin takes off with Benedict and the Jewel
"Yeah yeah, you had a good idea -- first time since Session 2." -- GM, to Breann, when Brea's off-hand remark causes the events above.
"Sure, you're in prison, but you didn't suggest your uncle walk the pattern and then have Dworkin take him and embed the jewel of judgement in his eye -- so call it a positive thing." -- GM, to Breann, after Quinn suggested that his uncles walk the Pattern, after which Dworkin took Ben and embedded the Jewel in his eye.
"It wasn't MY fault." -- Breann, regarding Dworkin, Ben, and the Jewel
"Well, yes it was, but it wasn't Breann's fault." -- Quinn
"I am sort of angry about standing here in the middle of all this with no route of denial available to me. " -- Caine, at the middle of the Pattern, after Dworkin absconds with Benedict and the Jewel of Judgement
"Gerard is mumbling to himself and pulling out his hair." -- GM
"You figure he's heard about Benedict." -- Breann
"Oh sure, NOW you want him to die, maybe he is doing this for his own good." -- Breann, regarding Anax, after Anax paralyzes Quinn
"I will apologize to his corpse." -- Quinn
"He is probably having trouble looking at anything other then your chest." -- Quinn to Megan, regarding a stammering guard
"You find yourself in the familiar position of straddling a man squirming beneath you." -- GM to Megan
"I should be really good at this." -- Megan
"I'm just glad you said it." -- GM
"He's really pissed off at you, and the first thing you want to do is give him a weapon?" -- Breann, to Quinn, about Kethos
"You're going to make a sword out of what? The chair?" -- Kethos, to Quinn
"We call it better living through chemistry." -- Quinn
"You manage to lever yourself to a basically standing position." -- GM
"I revel in my success." -- Ander
"Ok, you stand there reveling... while you vomit." -- GM
"Mom and I really just leave him there alone?" -- Breann
"You're sure there is no possible way Ander will be able to move on his own for days." -- GM
"Well, ok." -- Breann
(GM turns to Ander.)
"So, your standing, what do you want to do next?" -- GM
"You were laying on the beach, and find yourself here, or you were laid out by a bitch and you find yourself here?" -- Breann, to Quinn the Sunburned
"What what Edward saying?" -- Quinn
"I can't remember." -- GM
"I think he was saying... I can't remember." -- Megan
"Okay, what was Edward saying?" -- GM, to Edward
"Now I don't remember what I said either." -- Edward
"Look, an EXIT sign! In big green letters!" -- Edward, trying to get Breann to leave the prison
"I just wanted him to attune it." -- Quinn, to Deirdre, trying to explain Benedict
"Sssshhhhutup." -- Deirdre, trying valiantly to control her temper
"And you are?" -- Scudamore
"Edward." -- Edward
"Son of..." -- Scudamore
"...a bitch?" -- Megan, being helpful
"I don't think I'd want to trump anyone with the jewel in their skull." -- GM
"Yes, but you don't have 20 points in the jewel mastery." -- Quinn
"You get a trump." -- GM, to Megan
"It's Dworkin, he says: 'Everyone remembers you now, but I can fix that…'." -- Edward
"You are SO walking next time I teleport everyone." -- Quinn to Megan
"Here's a trump of Quinn." -- Deirdre, to Ander
"Spell boy." -- Megan
"Yeah, and he owes her big time." -- Breann
"Didn't Scott bring the saki to the bidding war session?" -- Breann
"That would explain Endurance." -- Quinn
"Is there anything I can do?" -- Edward, trying to be helpful
"I don't know, is there anything you can do?" -- Deirdre
"Yes, I believe I had some of that white wine." -- Edward
"Before or after they found out you were my child?" -- Bleys
"Before." -- Edward
"The vintage will probably get worse now." -- Bleys
"That's possible?" -- Edward
"It is the best six-year-old you have ever had... um... I... that really came out wrong." -- GM, to Edward, regarding the bottle of Bayle's Red Edward just opened
"Once again, Ander tries to sand against the grain of the universe." -- GM, as Ander assumes his aunts and uncles possess the finer human qualities
"I am concerned about Victor's well being, fuck you very much." -- Breann, being (as always) overly defensive and under-elegant
"Damn it, Mom: I could have been out of here last night." -- Ander, upset that over 12 hours had passed since their rescue before he was told of the problems surrounding the Amber navy
"Isn't mom a bitch?" -- Breann, being (as always) helpful in that not-helpful kind of way
"Somehow, in the melee, he finds the one man he can shoot in the back." -- GM, regarding Edward's (cough) talents
"'Ander half-there' is better than no one at all, and Ander has been half there for... how long?" -- Scott, about Ander
"What is the stamina of my crew?" -- Megan
"I hope you are talking about sailing." -- GM
"I'm not." -- Megan (with evil grin)
"I hadn't thought of that: how truly... horrible." -- Julian, reacting to a few less-than-pleasant suggestions from Edward
"I live to serve." -- Edward
"Did you check your email today?" -- Scott, to GM
"Oh... no I didn't." -- GM
"Well, that is becoming apparent." -- Scott, as 'GM Oblivious' tramples over a carefully orchestrated sub-plot
"That was fairly remarkable." -- Edward, after being 'trumped' to Julian
"Yeah, ok, whatever." -- Julian
"Your horse is war-trained stop them [ed: the Mori]." -- Megan, to Edward
"Yes, but then who could he stab in the back?" -- Quinn
"Ah, c'mon: it'll put hair on your knuckles." -- Kethos, offering Breann some mid-morning hooch
"I don't want hair on my knuckles." -- Breann
"Eh... you just don't know what's attractive in a woman." -- Kethos (apparently his version of flirting)
[Quinn makes plans to lure the Mori into an ambush.]
"The plan is something like First Knight, where this little group hits a target, except in this case the wagon won't have anything valuable in it." -- GM
"But what if they've seen that movie?" -- Breann
"We will kill, destroy, and giggle a lot." -- Breann (who needs to work on her pep-talks)
"Edward will giggle, but at the wrong times." -- Edward (who needs to work on being reassuring)
"Burn, Mori burn... Elvish Inferno!" -- Edward (to the tune of Disco Inferno)
"These people are distant relatives." -- Quinn, referring to the Mori
"That's what you used to say about your 'daughter'." -- Megan
"You feel you want to be past this." -- GM, referring to the blockade
"Good!" -- Megan
[GM checks stopwatch.]
"You have 7 minutes to tell me how this is 'good'." -- GM
[GM hands out guns to a few people.]
"What does Megan get?" -- Megan
"Wet." -- GM
"Artanis is the queen of a whole different culture." -- GM
"Which is to say, she actually has one." -- Quinn
"Sure, you're the man, I am not the man." -- Ander, encouraging the GM
"Gerard really needs to get some legs, 35 sessions, no legs." -- Breann
"You don't understand: *I* am the skipper, *he* is the little buddy." -- Ander, protesting Vaughn getting muscles and becoming useful
"Don't worry, I won't let her (Deirdre) hit you... much." -- Fiona to Edward
"I know she is joking, right?" -- Edward
"She is joking, but you don't know about which part." -- GM
"Mister Bad Aim, they want to give me Mister Bad Aim, like I want Mister Bad Aim." -- Ander, about the Verinese native's peace offering
"What are you doing here?" -- A stranger to Megan
"You, if you're lucky." -- Quinn, answering for Megan
"Megan is very free, she doesn't even know what a bra is." -- Megan
"It's that extra piece of clothing that Breann always wears." -- Breann
"So now your all alone in the Tir with a guy trying to kill you." -- Randy
"Theseus is here, he can help me: he's my bitch." -- Jackie
"Fiona did the white glove test on Edward's grey cells." -- Megan, after Fiona 'tested' Edward to make sure he was 'clean'
"Megan, come in! Glad to see you." -- Llewella, to Megan, in the Caer Beathan throne room.
"Boy, are you fucked." -- Breann, to Megan
"Anyone want a bite? No? Good." -- Edward, power-munching after his first Pattern walk.
"We're here to help, you're our guest, you're family." -- Llewella
"Okay, now I'm scared." -- Megan
"How does she know about that ship, we haven't even laid the keel yet... it must be Fiona." -- Ander, regarding the Trump-sail Miriel delivered for a ship that hasn't been built (or even discussed) yet.
"Yeah, but how would Fiona know?" -- GM
"How would Fiona know?!?" -- Ander
"Edward what are you doing with Quinn's trump of me?" -- Fiona, trumped by Edward
"He gave it--" -- Edward
"LENT." -- Quinn
"--lent it to me... to relay a message." -- Edward
"He is now afraid of my mighty mind." -- Breann, about Quinn, after Quinn mistakes her trump call for Brand trying to assault him, and refuses contact.
"Ah, let me explain what our elders are good at. Fiona, for instance is..." -- Quinn, to Edward, glancing at Fiona
"The Red Witch of Amber?" -- Fiona
"The Castle's Dark Sorceress?" -- Fiona
"The Fey Enchantress of Hell?" -- Fiona, trying to be helpful
"Well, maybe Brand being active will encourage Bleys to leave his room." -- Quinn
"Except for the fact that he's not there anymore, anyway." -- Edward
"Exactly. Now I think I'll go see if I can determine if that trump call was in fact Brand." -- Fiona
"UMMM... could we back up to the part where Bleys isn't in his Rooms?" -- Quinn
"I want to poke it [the Artifact] with a trump -- something slightly less stupid." -- Megan, trying to talk Breann out of sticking her 'crackling-with-the-power-of-two-count-em-TWO-Patterns' Sword into the center of the Artifact.
"We all have breasts, we're buoyant." -- Breann, never to be outshone in the realm of bio-physics
"Someone should be explaining to Breann how Magick can really screw stuff up if it's done wrong, while they're teaching her how to do it." -- Randy
"No, you don't understand: I don't want to Understand the Universe, I just want to Control it." -- Jackie
"... so as the Oniru glides into the bay, you realize to your horror that the wood of the ship is disentegrating, just like the ship you built for Caine did." -- GM
"Man, do you have any idea how much this is fucking me?" -- Ander
"As the Oniru sinks into the bay, you wake-up with a shout: you're still up on the hillside, it's only about 9 in the morning, and the ship hasn't sailed yet." -- GM, to Ander
[Ander stares at the far wall.]
"Dude, are you alright?" -- GM
"Scott, breathe." -- Jackie
"Quinn shouldn't be out in Shadow: he might run into a mean rat or something." -- Breann
"No, I can kick a rat's ass." -- Quinn
"Unlike any other Amberite, Megan has no power signature of any kind." -- GM
"On the other hand, she's currently a jellyfish with tits." -- Quinn, as he recovers his strength atop a floating Megan
"You say that like it's a bad thing." -- Edward
"Someone used a trump contact to suck the Grandfather Clock right out of the Grand Hall." -- Quinn
"That was us! That was us!" -- Breann and Megan
"Look at the bright side: Lora can teach you magick while we're locked in here." -- Megan, displaying her Good Stuff
"Lora won't be able to teach me anything in here [a prison cell]: if your Mom locked us in here it's probably because it is anti-everything -- it's probably even anti-fun, pretty soon the life will be sucked right out of our bodies." -- Breann, displaying her not-good-stuff
"Please find me something to kill." -- Dave, upon arriving at the game, after a long day
"It has a very... dream-like quality." -- GM, describing Quinn's dream
"You hear water dripping." -- GM, to Quinn, about his dream
"You suddenly realize you need to go to the bathroom." -- Megan
"No cookies for you, come back… one year!" -- Cookie Nazi to GM
"I'm sorry I'm late… and I have to leave here by six p.m." -- Scott, arriving at the game after a very long day (at around 6:30 p.m.)
"I am fairly sure that Fiona has the owners manual for my mind." -- Quinn
"Edward has a broad definition of cheating…" -- Megan
"…and liberal." -- Breann
"No, no... he just doesn't like to have cheating verbalized in a negative way." -- GM
"Megan is enjoying herself in the corner." -- Megan, stuck in a cell in Amber's dungeon with Lora and Breann
"Oh, now… I don't even want to see that." -- Breann
"That isn't what I meant." -- Megan
"That's what I thought you meant." -- Breann
"It's what we all thought you meant." -- Quinn
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