Amber

## Quick Peak

a realm outside the firewall of other realms. a place "more" real

**Magic / Tech Level**

**Ways** **to Enter**

## Items of Interest

Gem of Judgement

Random - easily exchanged 1920 American Flapper slang with Glenn James, Plays drums

Flora

Vialle - Randoms wife. Blind. Is from Remba.

Bleys

Julian

Martin - Random's son. Plays Alto Sax

## Amber Patterns

3/18/2019 - (unencrypted) So long and thanks for all the fish! - Unless it gets stabilized soon with a new P, yer reality is goin' away soon. Joshua was brave to try - gonna miss that dude. I'm going to find somewhere else to watch the light show! JS

3/17/2019 - Aeolous - G'day - \*Sigh\* You realise you can just type into it, right? Anyway. Joshua's dead. Yes. Dead dead. Not dead-and-then-come-back-to-life dead. Now since Raslen was the one who told me all this, I may be a bit spotty on certain things.  Joshua and Doc somehow found the Red Gem in question. No idea how they did that. Anyway. I believe then they went to the Smurf zone (dressed up as rabbits, obviously) and eventually got to some bridge that they had to cross. An old man asked each of them 3 questions about the pocket shadow that we are in and if you fail to answer one, you get thrown off and die (Raslen found that out the hard way (not dead dead, the other dead)). The questions were like "what's your favourite colour, what is the flower shop in Burlington called, etc" and they were different for each individual.
Then for whatever reason Joshua decided to try and do whatever ritual was described in the Red Pendent book which involved creating some sort of new Pattern. He failed and died.
I also believe they attempted to contact King Random on several occasions but each time he completely ignored them and was just seen writing. No idea what's up with that.
Raslen if I missed anything during your adventure, obviously fill them in.

3/17/2019 - Raslen Rad - G'day - Ah, there we are, thanks Freddy. Joshua has gone walkabout in the Pattern. He made a valiant attempt to walk his own pattern where the Gem of Judgement was being kept. Ghost wheel, perhaps? Doc can confirm that. We got there by sneaking into Gargamel's bedroom and using the book on the nightstand to get to the gem.  The Doc is probably still as cross as Frog in a sock so me and Freddy here thought we should at least let it be known and the Doc can help fill in some details as he sees fit. I didnt know him long, but I can say confidently that Joshua Mackay was a good man. Fair dinkum. He saved my life, probably more than once, in the short time I knew him. Loved and admired by the people of Kinleyville and other mysterious places. Feared by his enemies. Respected by his peers. I wish him luck in his walkabout. Now, Freddy, what button do I pu....

3/27/2019 - Joshua - Things which need doing - The wall of fire/Firewall is now flickering, not just pulsing. Asked Ghostwheel about it (standing near the pedestal) if anything needs to get done about it, if it is of concern and received no reply. May need further looking into by those more skilled/knowledgeable in Pattern/Shadows.

### Making a New Pattern

3/19/2019 - Aeolous - How the fuck are we gonna fix this? - If I'm understanding this correctly, the pocket shadow that we're in may soon cease to exist unless we get a new P (Pattern) according to Janice Swiftie (JS). I'm pretty sure that's what Joshua was trying to do (F). Though I have no idea why all of a sudden we need to do this. What prompted it? What happened to the old Pattern? Was it the removal of the Gem of Judgement by us? Or did this already start when Random lost the gem? Anyway. If Joshua couldn't do it, I sure as fuck don't stand a chance. Not even sure I'd get past the blasted old man on the bridge with his questions. I still don't even know what the fuckin' Pattern is really.
So… what do? Should we ask someone in Amber for assistance? What is actually going on with Random? What about his wife? Fiona perhaps? Are they also being affected by this? Will they also cease to exist or is it just our pocket shadow? Oh fuck I'm not ready to not exist. There's so much I haven't done yet. Like, I wanna build a robot. Yeah I know we have them already but I want my own one. And I want to shoot lightning out of my nostrils. And I want to go to another rock concert; I haven't been to one in for ever. Also I want a donut that instantly regenerates once you take a bite out of it. Fuck diabetes, I'm immune to disease. Wait. Am I immune to being fat? There have been studies linking obesity to a form of disease. Oh fuck I haven't used a proper computer in forever. I can feel my mind slipping. Soon I won't be able to even to use a rootkit. I'm turning into a savage. Oooga booga. Okay. I feel better now. I could really go for a cuppa.

3/18/2019 - Raslen Rad - How the fuck are we gonna fix this? - Those are good questions, mate. I suspect it has to do with the Gem. That cranky old fella on the bridge contacted us via a hologram or something and seemed pretty excited about getting his shyte back, so he's clearly out looking for it, he'll eventually find the Doc and the Doc will make nice with the bloke and she'll be apples.

### The New Pattern

3/25/2019 - Aeolous - The New Pattern - Alex has successfully walked the new Pattern created by Doc over in The Last Chance Saloon/Ghostwheel. We can confirm that it is the same sort of "trial" i.e. you best have some good muscle, be quite hearty and have some good will should you wish to walk it. If you have already walked a previous Pattern, walking any new ones will grant you the next power that you have access to in the Pattern ability tree.  In other words: if you know how to take multiple people into a Shadow Walk, you will instantly gain the next ability.

4/3/2019 - Aeolous - The New Pattern - Small note: Doc has expressed concern that the more people who walk this new Pattern, the harder it will be to eventually balance things out when we need to create the Logrus. Unless you really really need to, it may be wise to hold off walking it until a Logrus is made.

4/3/2019 - Aeolous - Logrus is essentially the "opposite" of The Pattern. The Pattern symbolises "law" whilst the Logrus symbolises "chaos". That's the simplified version. Not necessarily good/evil, just opposite ends of the scale. Apparently things can go rather bad if one has a stronger presence than the other. Perhaps Joshua can one day post a little "Universe 101" topic for everyone to read.

## The Red Pendent

### Red Pendent Book

3/13/2019 - Aeolous - The Red Pendent Book - The book has been left in the Australian embassy for anyone to read. I have now fully read it and here is a brief synopsis of the most relevant bits.

Best selling book: “Red Pendent” - murder mystery. Author: Janice Swiftie
Digging into the book more - the author is fuzzy as to where the detective (no name ever given, book is written in first person POV) actually found the red pendent stating only that it was ‘well hidden’ and that it was found after reading the ‘Greater Key of Solomon’ (book).
The book then took a turn to a more ‘Da Vinci Code’ type of work as the detective had to do some sort of very complicated ritual involving the gem that was harder than anything he ever did in his life before and nearly killed him. By doing this, he kept the demons at bay and saved the world.
He then returned the gem to its ‘rightful owners’ who were some sort of monks that live upon a mountain and guard the Red Pendent for a time in the future when it will be needed again to keep the demons at bay.

We managed to locate a digital copy of the book "Greater Key of Solomon" and determined it was just some religious spellcasting nonsense. Unfortunately we were not able to print this book out, but you can find it in Shermer Illinois. We used the public library's computers to access it. We were not able to determine anything further.

3/13/2019 - Glenn James - Conjecture:

the detective = King Random
red pendent = Random's necklace = the redstone
Greater Key of Solomon = Solomon's Knot = the pattern
very complicated ritual = walking the pattern
the demons at bay = courts of chaos
‘rightful owners’ = amberites or amber royalty
upon a mountain = amber castle

3/13/2019 - Aeolous - Mmm. I'm not so sure on some of that. I'm thinking whoever the detective is (it may even be Swiftie) isn't King Random. I'm thinking that Random is the "rightful owner" in charge of keeping the gem safe. The courts of chaos might be the Demons, I can see that. It sure would be nice if Random wasn't always so damn cryptic about everything.

3/13/2019 - Glenn James - I kinda had the impression that Random was an impostor since he knew all the 1920s lingo.

3/13/2019 - Joshua MacKay - I believe the author of the book also dabbled in cinematography and like the film is his way of trying to help/give clues.The detective is us. The ritual could potentially be repairing the broken Pattern in the firewall.

3/13/2019 - Aeolous - Now I'm starting to wonder if the demons are everyone outside of the firewall and that whoever made our pocket shadow doesn't want them coming in. Or maybe not everyone – just some. After all, nobody on the other side of the firewall has been able to cross over into our pocket shadow, yet we do so freely into theirs. Saving the world could literally mean saving our pocket shadow. In fact, it may be that Zog is the one being kept out specifically, especially when you consider the message that was found in The Asylum about Zog's eye. Perhaps this eye is the red gem.
I'm willing to wager that Random knows exactly what the firewall is and what it's there for.
I'm going to stop thinking now. This is hurting what little of my sanity I have left.

## Notes

2/21/2019 - Doc Fulton - Random Occurrences- May have gone to Amber and rescued Random from imprisonment... was all very on the fly and luck was riding on our shoulders. So, yeah... Mildred, freddy and I spent some time there... \*nods\*

2/22/2019 - Aeolous - Yeah I think they like us now. I think. Not sure. I don't understand that place. Everyone acts really weird.

2/22/2019 - Mildred - Depends what you mean by "like"... If you mean "being ready to betray in the first second it's useful", you might be right...

2/22/2019 - Joshua - Dana, Glenn & I were arrested and put in chains when we turned up in Amber, so I’m very curious what you really got up to, especially a certain James Fulton whose name came up when we were questioned.

2/23/2019 - Joshua - We rescued Fiona

2/24/2019 - Aeolous - Apparently she was attacked by Zog (we ascertained it was him from her description). She was playing dumb and definitely wasn't letting us in on the whole story.

3/3/2019 - Joshua - We visited Amber. Flora has taken a shine to Freddy. Fiona appears not to have contacted anyone. We went there on the trail of Maddie. (she's killed 14 monsters with eyes on the hands, last one about a year ago on the Falkland Islands). Janus had collected Maddie and was taking her to Amber to walk the Pattern (the info - a note from Maddie we located was a few months old). I asked at dinner with Random, Vialle, Bleys, Julian & Flora if anyone had seen Maddie's partner and daughter. Bleys gave Mildred his condolences, insinuating she had failed in her walking the Pattern. We were not there long enough to tease out the truth of the matter, so don't know if it actually happened, if she was successful in walking the Pattern or if had not yet walked it. We encountered a few more doppelgangers. While I did not encounter him my one left me a note of my surprisings. I believe I know what the red stone they are looking for is.

3/3/2019 - Aeolous - Such a tease, Joshua. Why not tell them what you believe? I'll probably fuck something up if I told them. Damn Amber and their ridiculous crypto-babble. Although Flora was nice. And Martin.

3/4/2019 - Mildred - Flora is an asshole. The fact she smiles a lot and wants everyone to wear dresses doesn't change that.