Iris note: Iris is there too, no one's gone far from the edge of Chaos.
"Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS
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Kadh2000 |
Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment |
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Deirdre decides that Amber is better than here and allows Gareth to take her there. A direct contact is impossible, so a walk through shadow first is required. Along the way, they see someone ahead walking the same path. By his appearance and bearing it must be Oberon, one-time King of Amber.
Iris note: Iris is there too, no one's gone far from the edge of Chaos. "Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS |
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Paxus Asclepius |
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Gareth whispers to Dierdre "That can't really be Granddad, can it?"
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Kadh2000 |
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Deirdre shakes her head. "He's dead."
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Alright then. So, do we talk to his ghost, or hope it doesn't notice us?"
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Kadh2000 |
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"Omens, living or dead, matter," Deirdre replies. "We talk."
{waits for Iris} "Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS |
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NS Maestro |
Re: Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment | #5 | ||
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"I've been playing with his toys left, right, and center." Iris observes. "I hope he's in a good mood. Or just a random shapeshifter. I can deal with a shapeshifter."
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Okay then." Shouting to the ghost/shapeshifter/granddad, "Hey there!"
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Kadh2000 |
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The figure turns, and then halts and waits for the trio to approach him. "Why have you brought me back this time?" he demands.
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Hey, don't look at me. I had nothing to do with it. As far as I know."
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NS Maestro |
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"Deidre and I haven't been in this dimension for years." Iris amusedly observes. "Though I'll admit that's not much of an excuse and I'm the most likely suspect. Can I get some time to check if anything's changed around here before answering?"
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Kadh2000 |
Re: Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment | #10 | ||
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"I'm not concerned about you," he replies. "You may go."
He turns to Deirdre adn Gareth. "As for you two, don't you know there can only be one. It's called, 'THE Jewel of Judgment for a reason. What are we going to do with three of them?" "Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS |
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Throw a party? Play spin-the-Jewel? Dress them up in kimonos and have them go at each other with claymores? Try this really nifty concept called checks and balances that I read about in this one book?"
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Kadh2000 |
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Oberon sighs. "Perhaps this would serve me better." He gets smaller thinner and greyer until he has been reduced to the dwarfin form of Dworkin. He declares, "Certain aspects are immutable. Chaos vs. Order. Prime and Prime. Judgment. What is can not be when those aspects are rashly challenged. That which is takes steps to assure perfection remains. Return them whence they came or make the choice of which you prefer."
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Paxus Asclepius |
Re: Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment | #13 | ||
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"You're still doing the 'mysterious and spooky old guy' routine, and it's not helping. The choice of which WHAT I prefer? And what, exactly, is going to happen if I blow off your vague warnings? Speak slowly, in small words that mean what they damn well make sense."
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Kadh2000 |
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"The universe will cease to exist," he says simply, "and you along with it. Fight or flight. Change the rules or run away."
He sighs. "I give you the vague warnings of a seer because it must be that way. If I tell you exactly what the situation is and what must be done, it becomes, once more, my will that sets events in motion and I become bound once again to them. Whether you wish it or not, you have done what you have done. There are consequences to every action. Had I not been here to at least say this much you would meet them unexpecting and unknowing. Consider yourself warned. Observe and decide. But do not take too long." "Who are you?" Deirdre asks. He smiles. "I am your grandfather's creation." "Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS |
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Alright, time to stop an apocalypse. And, of course, you can't tell me how. Well." Gareth steps aside from the road and tries to cast his senses out through the jewel, looking for any sign of the doom of which he's just been warned.
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Kadh2000 |
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Alas, he's not attuned to it and can only see that it's a jewel.
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NS Maestro |
Re: Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment | #17 | ||
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Iris has sat down, and has confirmed it's good to be home by finding a sack of popcorn reaching sideways behind a tree. She silently offers some to Deirdre as she watches... And starts checking on those changes as she'd said she would through her link with Yggdrasil. She's been away for a while, but how bad could it be?
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Paxus Asclepius |
Re: Gareth and Iris: The Jewels of Judgment | #18 | ||
Quote: Nothing different now that he's out of the Abyss? And no way to attune it short of hiking to the Pattern and walking? Hmm. "I imagine these laws about uniqueness go for the Pattern as well; if we dump the Jewels and try to get everything back to normal, we'll have to get rid of the extra Pattern too, yeah? And if we don't, does the universe collapse, split into multiples, what?" |
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Kadh2000 |
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"Yes," Oberon answers Gareth.
"Father," interrupts Deirdre. "Perhaps you've been given this as a chance. An opportunity to have Dworkin's role instead of the one you had. Take this jewel. Be the creator. I'll be your monarch." Oberon laughs. "What of him?" He points at Gareth. "Have him take it to the Logrus. Attune it that way and add two rival powers. Split or four quarters it would be something new. If you're that tired of what you've been doing. Once you're firmly in a position, I'm sure it'll stop asking you for a new one." "You're right about that," Oberon laughs again. "It will ask you. You have not the least idea what you're asking." "It will save the universe," she says. "Isn't that enough?" "Where was that sense of duty when you were younger," Oberon chides her. *** Iris can sense the fracture in reality where the old universe of Amber and Chaos is separating from the new universe of Corwin's Paris and another Logrus-like realm. Ygg feels that if it were placed on the rift, it would be able to maintain a connection with both emerging dimensions. "Shojo has a gaze attack that causes encephalitis!!" - Roy Greenhilt, OotS |
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Paxus Asclepius |
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"Wait, what now? I can walk the Logrus with this? And we'll make how many different universes? Are we talking completely separate universes, or can we still walk between them?"
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