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Act One: Broken Light

ACT ONE: Broken Light

THE CAST
Aidan, Pattern Ghost of Brand, played by Brian
Bianca, Pattern Ghost of Deirdre, NPC played by Alan
Carmen, daughter of Martin, NPC played by Tom
Chance, Pattern Ghost of Random, no longer active
Il Diavolo, Pattern Ghost of Caine, NPC played by Amy/Francesca
Geoff, Pattern Ghost of Julian, played by Tom
Henry, Pattern Ghost of Eric, played by Amy/Francesca
Jabrel Montparnasse, Blood Guard, played by Alan
Karl, Pattern Ghost of Corwin, played by Andrew
Narcissa, Pattern Ghost of Florimel, played by Nicole
Raife, Pattern Ghost of Caine, played by David
Richard, son of Eric, NPC played by Brian
Rowan, Pattern Ghost of Fiona, played by Jeff
GM - Jen

Note: This is a work in progress, as it takes me quite some time to get through all the back posts. I'm only about a third of the way through Act One at the moment, so if you don't see a favorite quote, don't worry. It will probably come.

On the pesky dead:
Van Infer: Bah, boy! I've been commissioned to bury ye, and bury ye I shall! Now stop talkin' t' me and le' me work!

Chance's song:
Chance: Blues on my mind, blues all around my head
Blues on my mind, and blues all around my head
I dreamed last night that the lady that I love was dead

I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
And I asked the gravedigger to give me back my real good lady please

The gravedigger look me in the eye
The gravedigger look me in the eye...


On threats and promises:
Van Infer: Oh, I like that one! I always like songs about me. How does it end?
Chance: Badly for someone.

On double-entendres:
Chance: It seems I owe you an ending, gravedigger.

On nice try:
Aidan: How much do you know of the Pattern, its history, and its use?
Vercengetorix: Ah, but you have me too on my guard now to ask such direct, rapid and wandering questions and expect a meek answer.

On Caine’s instincts:
Raife wants clothes, finds something in the closet and decides he should smother it. When he discovers it is human, he knocks it out.

Geoff’s first attempts at speech:
Geoff: "Ho?" Not right. He tried again. "Who?"

On Amber, the way the game is played:
Aidan: So shall we get back to discerning how we might use one another?

On rock and roll:
Geoff: I am the leader of the pack.

On not-so-subtle hints:
Geoff: Malady?
The Guardian: Yeeees. A very pestilent disease, my lord. But it hardly matters. I, after all, am only a machine.

On times for blood-sucking:
Henry: (thought) 'Perhaps I am a vampire, but now is definitely not the time.'

More than one Brand is too many, even for Brand:
Aidan: Either he is the fake, or I am. In either event, I'm going to destroy him, sooner or later.

On blood tells:
Raife: Would it bother you if I was related to the glasses man?
Carmen: I'd find it rather difficult to believe.

On "I know your damn words, all right?":
Raife: Curses are for wimps.

On did I say that out loud:
Aidan: I... I remember...
Verse : Uh, you remember what, mate?

On car keys, my best suit, grandfather:
Aidan: I remember where I left some very important things.

On vanity:
Henry: Downstairs, perhaps? A basement of some kind? I had heard that vampires like the dark and damp.
Bess: These are primarily women, so they're too attached to their stunning good looks.

On undead, it's relative:
Bess: Eric? You sure you aren't a vampire, too?
Rose Red: He's not a vampire. He's a ghost.

On condescension, part one:
Henry: Why don't you come down and play, little songbird?

On La Conta, understatements:
Verse: He seems to have taken a very... negative view of things, I'm afraid.

On good reasons not to talk to someone:
Verse: Neither of us speaks to La Conta on a regular basis. He's too busy trying to kill me, and he doesn't like the Chaosians much either.

On smartasses:
Il Diavolo: Where the hell have you been ?
Raife: Catching up on some swimming, cooking, and bootlegging. How 'bout you?

On talking birds:
Bird: (to Rowan) What are you poking about after?

On takes one to know one:
Il Diavolo: Why the games, then?
Raife: Because that's the sort of person we once were...

On things Henry would care about:
Rose: (on Richard) And he killed his own father, can't forget that either, though I'm not sure you'd particularly care.

On who’s your daddy?
Aidan: So... are you going to tell me who your father is, or shall I guess?

On unusual characterizing of Brand:
Rose: He was a ghost of Brand... he's very like Brand in many ways. The bad aspects, anyway. Not much left of meek and mild, if you know what I mean.

On pull the other one:
Bird: I don't get out much, you know. Free me and I'll find it for you.
Snake: You shouldn't trust the cacomajai. I'll help you, and serpents can be trusted.

On haunted houses, or trying to creep out Raife:
Raife: Already heard that one. Put on something with a better beat.

On getting some stuff out of the way early:
Rowan: (to the snake) Anything you'd like to say, other than not to trust the cacomajai?

On other than that:
Serpent: If you are Fiona, that'd be a neat trick, since you have a different hair color and Fiona is dead.

On things you gotta know for this game:
Rowan: Let's pretend I'm a complete and total idiot who doesn't know a thing. What's a Pattern-ghost?

On setting a mood:
Klyr-Rip: Blood in the trees. Dark laughter. The things from the evil. They come out of the woods. There are tree-things, white-things, walking-things...

On fabulous directness:
Geoff: (thinks: "things from the evil")Can we kill the Evil?

On condescension, part two:
Henry: None of that rough stuff. Daddy's home.
Bess: Yeah, and does daddy have a preference as to whether I ice this bitch or not?

On why won’t you die?
Klyr-Rip: Kill, yes. But [the evil] don't stay dead.

On possession is nine-tenths of the law:
Henry: Now, let's see who sits on my throne.

On why we love Rowan:
Rowan: In the meantime, let's pretend that I'm a fairly pissed-off Fiona who'd like to find the person that killed my brother and make it fairly miserable. So, start at the beginning and tell me anything that you think might be relevant. I'm sick and tired of this ask a question, get one sentence that might be relevant chickenshit.

On truths in Amber versus being blonde:
Cacomajai: You don't sound like the Fiona I remember. But maybe anger does that to you. Still, you seem to have forgotten how the game is played. You don't get something for nothing, in Chaos or in Amber.
Rowan: Maybe you've forgotten I'm a blonde, too.

On never never never:
Cacomajai: You expect us to trust the word of a scion of Amber?

On hella cool:
Aidan: There is supposed to be order and chaos. One of each. Balance. La Conta is a blight on the natural order. Brand tried to walk the Logrus but never came out again. Perhaps I am the pebble which will set loose the avalanche, the butterfly's wingbeat which sets forth the whirlwind. Blood has been spilled, and I will see it paid for in full measure. The Logrus then, or ruin!

On Richard not so popular:
Bess: Anyway, a little sister's going to feel that way about her hero brother... until the son of a bitch kills everything that ever mattered to her right in front of her. For no reason except his own ambition!

On rude questions, not unwarranted:
Aidan: [to Antipatra] And have you had any other children with Dworkin's line?

On things that sound weird to those not in the know:
Henry: I'm going to the basement. Perhaps you ought to accompany me. We do better as a team, against what lives here.
Bess: The basement?

On there is always a price:
Aidan: Attempting to manipulate me... that is not foolish. Thinking that you can manipulate me without paying the price...

On yeah right:
Aidan: I am a simple creature.

On neat ways to enter the story:
Jabrel: (to a shell casing) Tell me, beast of metal, agent of death; tell me how long since those lifeless fingers pushed you into the breech. How many times has the sun set while you lay on that roof?

On things to say to Chaos Lords:
Rowan: If you don't mind throwing in a freebie, I'd like knowing why Mom turned you into a bird, too.

On responses to applause:
Raife: Always wanted an audience. You one of Il Diavolo's errand boys?

On mottos:
Raife: Expect less. Get more.

On semantics:
Tsin: It's not my natural form, just the one that tends to look the most aesthetic to symmetrical bipeds.

On toughness:
Antipatra: I'm used to harsh lessons about power and who does and doesn't have it. Fear no hard feelings from me.

On define “bad”:
Tsin: The Pattern is now almost totally destroyed.
Rowan: The part of me that's got most of Fi's memories is pretty sure that this is colossally bad. The part that's me doesn't quite know why.

On propositions:
Agenor: Don't want her. I came for you.
Raife: I'm not interested. Shoo!

On Brand as a father:
Aidan: Its funny... I had the boy to serve as a blood sacrifice, but over time, I grew... sentimental...

On finality:
Antipatra: She was killed by Benedict, and those who are do not return.

On eloquence:
Rowan: Don't hurt her. Give her a chance to make up for the bird-thing part, anyway.

On Mandor:
Antipatra: It's heavy-handed and childish, not Mandor's tactics at all.

On spells, cool:
Tsin: Clarissa, I call you with breath. Clarissa Jesby, I call you with blood. Clarissa, Queen Dowager of Amber that Was, I call you with magic.

On both sides of the mirror:
Delwin: Clarissa's been wrong before, numerous times, as you can see by the side of the mirror she's currently on.

On caring mothers:
Clarissa: Pattern ghosts, eh? Is that why you're blonde? I thought perhaps the Blood Hunter had just remade you with some of his synthetic hair or something.

On why you ask after the fact:
Clarissa: Honey, why on Earth would snooping through my personal things help you learn your purpose in life? Why don't you just ask me if you have any questions? I can't see how my personal documents are any of your, or the Pattern's, business.

On honesty:
The Blood Hunter: I'm still not entirely sure that Jasra didn't sell us out back then. However, I am quite willing to deal with her again, on the understanding that if I ever find out that she did, I will be astonishingly vindictive.

On a hug will not make it better:
Bianca: The world is wrong, unless you have not noticed. The grandeur has gone, the laughter with it, robbed of its glory by the folly of man. Do not ask me what is wrong!

On if wishes were horses:
Richard: All of this, it shouldn't be like this. I've been cheated out of so much. I should be ruling the greatest city in the universe, my queen by my side... instead, I'm a discarded tool in an ever-expanding council of giants. It's really the big three that run everything, anyway...

On case and point:
Bianca: We are all fools and tools of one sort or another. You do look very handsome today, though.

On back-handed compliments or left-handed insults, one:
Delwin: It's not that I have a high opinion of Brand, God forbid! It's just that the stain on the Pattern is imbued with the Blood Curse of at least six different Amberites. To fix it, you'd have to reconcile in your mind all the hate, darkness and evil that went into that thing, and think sufficiently like Dworkin to practically make it over by scratch. I think Brand's got the weirdest and most morbid brain of all of us.

On a fine pair:
Il Diavolo: So. . . How are tricks, Emberick?
Emberick: Daddy Lucifer, tricks are boring the hell out of me.

On Luke and Jasra, the essentials:
Henry: Who is Rinaldo?
Delwin: Brand's son by this Black Zone bitch.

On the benefits of being a Pattern ghost:
Antipatra: That's odd. I didn't realize ghosts could receive Trump calls.

On nicknames:
Il Diavolo: Drac and the band want to deal... You interested?

On shades of Oberon:
Henry: [on Jasra] Tough woman, yes? Maybe I should meet her.

On more than one way to take that:
La Conta: You could offer no possible inconvenience, I'm sure. Neither of you could.

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