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==Retcon of before waking up Oberon==

Janica, Manfred, Hector discuss how to structure the new constitutional monarchy with Oberon at its head. Janica points out laws will not hold Oberon; we need a force that can oppose Oberon. Janica returns to our plan of installing/supporting Manfred as Emperor of Chaos and giving him a seat on some kind of Amber Parliament. Eric worries this is completely unrealistic. We argue that Eric should keep the jewel. 

Eric: You'd surrender rather that go down spitting blood and cursing?

Janica: Yes. We come from an occupied country.

Hector: Live to fight another day and whatnot.

Manfred: I joined the enemy.

''pause''

Hector: Right. Join Chaos, destroy them from within.

Eric: He joined us too...

Eric and the rest of us propose this council, etc. to gathered family.  Family of all of us who helped get Oberon back, plus heads of 7 houses.

Random laughs and asks for a pony, too.  Caine and Benedict stand with us.

==Oberon's return==

We wake up Oberon and explain. Caine speaks first; Hector adds we brought him back as king because it's good, and right. We write the Magna Carta in magic-y-ness and all sign it in blood. We then return the crown to Oberon.  He plays it cool. "In the morning, to war. Now  I'm going to sleep."

==In the night==

Simuka (Amberite agent) knocks on Alexandra's window in the night.   "Can you fly?" Proposes that they (Hendricks) keep Garnath as their own country and they stop fighting Amber. Alexandra refuses that proposal.

The redheads (Brand) call Manfred. "Oberon's back. Who has the jewel." "I don't know." "It's big and shiny. Are you still with me on trying to make a better world with a different Pattern?" Manfred: Yes. I don't know about the mechanics.  "Are you still with me on stealing the jewel." "Yes. I have access to the castle now."  "You signed the paper!" "It's a step forward for Amber... the jewel is important for Shadow... Eric & Oberon aren't trustworthy custodians of it."

OOC: Madeline asks John if Manfred intends to get the jewel for Brand or not?
OOC: Lee comments that Manfred always agrees with everyone so you have to look at what he actually does.

Manfred and Brand discuss Moire and their disagreement in Rebma.

Trump call for Hector. "I'm always scared to answer." "Yes, as if every time you answered the phone there was a 1 in 5 chance the person on the other end would kill you with their mind."

Llewella and Hector talk. "Are you happy with the world as it is today?" Hector says "Call no man happy until he is dead" in Latin.  She proposes he steal the jewel so Brand can remake the universe in a less autocratic pattern, a decentralized one, saving Rebma and England's shadow world for sentimental purposes. Llewella doesn't trust "flighty" people like Manfred with the Jewel. Is Hector willing to go with them providing an opportunity to steal it? Hector demurs and says it will depend on what happens. Llewella explains the new universe some more. Collective re-drawing of Pattern. OOC Liz: OMG it's an evil magic wiki!  OOC Janica: America is a wiki! OMG!  Hector: too many cooks spoil the soup and it only takes one to poison it. Llewella says they trust Hector to be forthright. (!?)  Hector says he is uncertain on where that plan differentiates from Chaos. Llwella leaves somehow not quite getting it though Hector is a horrible liar.

==Morning of the War==

Janica joins Eric and Oberon in war council. They talk about fixing the pattern. 

Janica describes her plan to install Manfred on the throne of Chaos. He can't stay in Amber. We can't kill him. He's good at getting what he wants. We can use him. If someone has to rule Chaos it might as well be our friend.

How to crush the armies of Chaos.

Oberon and Alexandra talk. Oberon proposes that Alexandra kick Simuka's ass.  She perks up! She quits sullking. Oberon: "There's a whole army of chaosites out there whose asses you can kick." What! Why didn't you tell me!

Federico borrows the Himmler trump from Alexandra.

Janica and Hector conv. about pattern, jewel, wiping slate clean vs. caring about existing beings and life. Brand's not caring about being king and not wanting central power is evidence of his irresponsibility - power vacuum - fighting.

Federico is talking with Caine. Caine speculates that Brand must have been planning all this 70, 80 years ago because he started hiding kids raised in a decent place. Llewella probably fooled by this, but Brand's plan of the nucleus of a new family if he wiped the rest of the family out. When we (from Earth) reached useful age somehow a war broke out.  Caine says someone has to kill Brand to save the universe. If Fede doesn't do it then Caine will. Brand must have a way to find people in Shadow, because he found all of you as babies. 

Fede- the Heart of Secrets, the evil end table... That must be how they're doing it and it must be a "real" object, probably in Chaos.

Hector seeks out Manfred to tell him about the conversation with Llewella and to ask him to be the point man on lying and deceit. Hector is bad at it. Hector says he trusts Manfred. Manfred denies intending to steal the Jewel.

Eric trumps Janica and says someone has her kid. (!!!) Manfred tries to tag along and Janica does not allow it. She is pulled through. Chebek called...  She was in my safest shadow... Deirdre, Eric, take off on horses.  Brand has the blood of Amber; he might be about to sacrifice Janica's daughter on the Pattern.

Kid/jewel trade. Manfred tries flying over the pattern.
Corwin stabs Deirdre through the heart with greyswandir. 
Eric and Janica are running through the Pattern. Bad horrible black clouds are swirling around...

Hector runs to find Oberon in the palace. They whisk off to some weird dark area where Oberon takes the staff of chaos and stasis and gives it to Hector

Blood on pattern. Earthquake and horrid storm clouds, sky opening, world breaking. Fede organizes an evacuation of amber by way fo the black road, to our Shadow Earth.  Madeleine: You're going to ahve to triage because the tidal wave is going to hit the harbor before you can get there. Fede's family is by the harbor. Earthquake. All very grim.  15K out of 2 million show up on Earth. 

Manfred is in the middle of the Logrus and it goes to the middle of the dead pattern with the dead body of Deirdre. Oberon is doing something with the Jewel. The kid sticks close to him. Janica and Hector too.

Manfred cuts himself and his blood talks to him. Ew!  Draw out the power fro here and keep it in this vessel.