Game
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Characters Present:
Rune
Sterling
Kevin
Fatima
Kei
Penelope
When we begin: Rune is hanging out with Kaji, teaching him Trump. Sterling is with Kevin, in a Tir boardroom meeting. Penny is having high tea with ambassadorial women. Fatima is in her constabulary office. Kei is heading for the castle kitchen in search of her father.
Rune hears a cawing outside his window and goes to look Every surface outside is covered in ravens People walk through them, oblivious. Rune sends Kaji to his room, and goes to find Kei. He finds her in the kitchen and reports what he’s seen. They look out a window - nothing. Nothing can be seen from Rune’s window, either. Kei suggests that Rune have Merlin check him out.
Sterling and Kevin smell something burning. They check out the area on the sly, and find nothing on fire. Kevin brings up the Pattern and gets rid of the smell, and passes a cleanse onto Sterling.
Penny is getting talked up about the nobility of Weirmonken males. She gets an unsigned invitation to a warehouse, and excuses herself from the matchmakers.
Fatima pushes her chair back from her desk, and the floor goes slosh. She calls an assistant, and then a magician, who can find no water nor magical traces.
Kei finds Corwin in his office. There are empty coffee carafes on the floor and paperwork on his desk. She asks his permission for Kaji to walk the Pattern. Corwin agrees, telling her to have Merlin ascertain that Kaji is ready. Kei also asks if she may be released from duty as the army general, as she would like to focus on something that is not martial. Corwin agrees, asking if Kei will leave the army to its own hierarchical bureaucracy, or pass the helm to one of her siblings. Kei says that she doesn’t know yet.
Rune discusses ravens and madness with Merlin.
Kevin gets a Trump call - wards up! - and he answers. Fatima tells him that she has a problem - please come. He agrees to come home and passes a note to Sterling, then causes a commotion for the gentleman leading the meeting. The meeting is adjourned, and the brothers head home.
Penny goes to Fatima regarding the invitation she received. She gets an officer escort and takes a cab to the place. Fatima puts the building under surveillance. Penny does not want a Trump; she takes a high-tech range weapon and a walkie-talkie. At this time, Kei tries Trumping Penny, but is refused.
Rune gets a note from Brand asking to meet him at a hotel in Argent City. Rune goes, and notices that the air is colder.
Kevin and Sterling head to the constabulary, where Fatima tells them about the water problem. They can’t find anything; Penny leaves.
Kevin Trumps Rune and learns that Rune is about to meet with Brand. Kevin hangs up quickly and ups his wards.
Fatima calls Merlin regarding her watery problem. Merlin gets Penny’s walkie-talkie frequency and gives the phone to Kei, who asks Penny if she will come to the castle to speak when she’s finished in the city.
Rune senses Trump energy in the hotel and heads up there. The room has four different vistas that are Trump openings. Brand is there, his color washed out and he is wearing all white. He asks if Rune prefers getting his mother back from the land of the dead or going back in time. Back in time, please! Rune hangs around while Brand works.
Fatima, Kevin, and Sterling during life during Brand-time.
Rune is given a Trump that looks like a street in Argent. Brand thinks it should send Rune back in time. Rune activates it and goes through.
Penny goes to the appointed office, but no one is there. She sits down and notices a space on the floor - a trap door. She opens it, and the air below smells like flowers. The officer goes down first, and Penny follows. There is a dark hallway with a light ahead. They reach a room where there is a painting of Penny on the wall, candles, pews, photos of Penny from a distance. Penny decides that they need to leave, but the trap door swings shut and a gunshot rings out. The officer is down. A redheaded woman dressed like Penny approaches with a sword. “I will be Penelope, Princess of Argent,” the interloper claims. Penny shoots. There are screams and running from a hidden room, where Penny finds a priest who begs her not to hurt him. She drags the priest and the constable out of the building. From there, she calls in to Fatima, who tells Penny how to call the other constables to her.
Rune appears forty years in the past and goes to his home Shadow. There he sees a growing ball of Chaos at the base of his apartment - this would be when Random came for him. He tries to use the Pattern to dampen the Chaos.
Penny is cross about the cult. She talks to Fatima on the walkie-talkie on the way to the office, with the priest in tow. In the office, Sterling notices a wash of wave from a bad section of Argent. Kevin, Fatima and Sterling zip there. There’s a big hole of a city block. Kevin senses a big chunk of Corwin’s Pattern. Sterling sees someone on the other side of the hole, who disappears. The man was an albino, all dressed in white.
Penny gets to the office but no one is there. She goes to the castle to speak with kei. Kei hangs the priest’s robe on a hook, with the priest in them, and then offers Penny the job of army general. Penny accepts, and tells Kei about the cult. Kei shakes the priest and instructs him to tell Penny what she wants to know.
Rune is ambushed by a Lord of Chaos and they get into a fight. Shadow dwellers try to break up the fight.
Kevin tries to reconstruct the big hole to see who did it. Fatima gets a hold of Corwin.
Penny and Kei interrogate the priest. The woman Penny shot was “the sword maiden.”
Fatima reports to Corwin, and he comes through. “How did I not notice this?” he wonders. He steps forward to the edge and disappears. Fatima follows, falls, and grabs a pipe. She sits on the pipe and tries to Trump Corwin. There is a weak contact, so she gets hoelp from Sterling. They see Corwin in a twilit world. Fatima asks Sterling to call Rune, but there is no response. Merlin is contacted and comes through, and he pulls Fatima out of the hole with a Logrus tendril. Merlin adds in to the Trump contact with Corwin. Corwin reports that there is a palace in the place he’s in. Fatima and Sterling go through to Corwin, with Merlin holding the contact.
Rune tries to contact Corwin via his ring. Corwin I.D.s the Chaosian as House Helgram before getting weirded out by Rune. Rune goes to find his mom.
Fatima and Sterling step through but lose Corwin and each other. They’re in a place of darkness. Fatima reaches out with Pattern energy and finds that the place is as solid as it’s going to get. She tries to walk to bring her Argent into being. Sterling explores; his waves seem weakened here, as if on the fringes of them. The tries his mom’s Trump. The senses a cold presence and scrutiny, then he finds himself next to Kevin. Penny shows up to chat.
Fatima hears the ruffling of feathers behind her, but sees nothing. “How could you have forsaken your beloved master?” she hears, but no one is there. She has a conversation with “the archangel who gave the message to Mohammed” on faith versus love of her father. She gets a Trump call from Sterling.
Rune finds his mom and brings her to his rooms in Argent. He goes to find Corwin in his office, where Corwin is ready with a gun. Blam! Rune gets a Trump call from Brand: Ready to come back? Rune says no, give me one more day. Random and a younger Rune appear; the shot Rune passes out.
Fatima goes back to Sterling; she and Penny discuss cults. Fatima calls Gerard to report, suspecting Brand. Gerard reports that Brand has been in Amber all morning, and Gerard just saw him twenty minutes ago.
Kei is intercepted by a darker-haired Brand outside the castle. He wants Julian told that Brand wants the Jewel. Brand is wearing a pendant that looks like the Pattern. Kei agrees to pass along the message and leaves.
Gerard gets there; the albino appears with Corwin in his arms. Both men are beat to shit; Corwin the worse. The albino introduces himself as Morvyn. Deirdre shows up. Corwin says he was jumped by the albino, who said it was part of a lesson. Rune gets patched up at the castle. Kevin goes to get the Jewel. Rune’s mom’s Trump is cold. He puts it away for now.
There is another ripple in the waves, and another city block disappears. Another ripple, and the first city block returns, now perfectly white. Sterling’s scope shows that it’s been purified.
At the Primal Pattern, Kevin finds the ground black with ravens. A few hope on his shoulders. All at once they rise and fly away. They were Argent Pattern-flavored. Kevin Trumps back to the group via Sterling. Kei arrives to report on her meeting with Brand. Another ripple, and the second block returns, purified.
Rune doesn’t recognize the artist who did the Trump of the Helgram guy. He Trumps his mom and is happy!
Corwin says that the buildings remind him of Tir: ephemeral. Kevin works on the analysis of the blood left on Grayswandir. Corwin reports that there are portals in the shadows of Argent.
Siblings discuss the problem. Rune returns to his rooms to get his sword and staff. Kevin checks out the staff. It seems to have Amber and Fount power in it. Kevin wards off the two buildings, and he and Kei go through the portal. They are immediately separated. Kev looks around, smells burning. He sees Brand all in red with a flaming sword. He charges at Kevin, cutting through Kev’s wards. Kevin runs, and sees a palace ahead.
Kei walks toward the palace. Brand appears and demands the Jewel. He grabs her shirt, and she grabs his hand. They argue about Julian. Brand demands that Kei let got of his hand, but she does not. They are falling from a great height toward the ground. Kei finally lets go and falls into water. She swims and shifts Shadow.
Rune walks a block and Trumps Brand. He tells his uncle about the several problems. Brand goes there to him, but Sterling shows up and Brand Trumps out. Annoyed, Rune goes to the castle and Trumps Brand, to whom he is pulled through.
Kevin is chased into the palace. Dara throws him against a wall. “I think you forgot who owns who,” she says. He feels her fingers sink into his chest. Brand comes in and chops at Dara. Kev’s clone blows up. The real Kevin shows up in Argent. Fatima Trumps a waterlogged Kei and brings her through. Kevin inspects the staff. The siblings chat about the Fount.
Under Brand’s instruction, Rune Trumps one of the lesser Brands. This one is wearing a blue suit and is carrying a chalice. Brand goes through to him, the lesser Brand disappears, and the real Brand feels his power level rise. They continue with the other Brands.
Kevin Trumps Jasra. He tries to chat, but gets smarmy, and she shuts the contact.
Brand and Rune get the last of the Brands, but there’s still a tiny bit missing. Brand Trumps to a roof above the gathered family and shouts down to Corwin that he wants the staff. Corwin pops up to Brand, the staff disappears, Corwin pulls a gun, and Brand Trumps out.
Rune Trumps Brand; his uncle is squirrelly and eating ice cream. Rune comes through for ice cream. They hide from Jasra’s wrath in Brand’s rooms.
Kevin, Sterling, Penny, Corwin, Merlin, Deirdre, and Gerard go to the Well. The Lady there takes them through to Bleachtown. She says it is Corwin’s doing - it is his Shadow.
Fatima talks to Rinaldo about Jasra and meets Clarissa.
Kevin talks to his girlfriend in the dark place, They see a hospital like where they rescued Deirdre. So, Dad, what is it you don’t deal with? Hands reach out and pull them down below ground. Men, women, and children are there with accusing looks and grabbing hands. Kevin feels his wards pushing back - the Jewel of Q pushing against another Jewel. He escapes the problem via will, and falls into a car seat.
Sterling finds himself in his childhood room. Sterling’s bedroom catches fire. The door opens, and there are huge teeth in a huge mouth. Rune Trumps him, offering to bring him through, but Sterling refuses. The teeth bite through a wall, and Sterling is tossed into the mouth. Acid burns! He fires into the belly of the beast. FOOM! Rune pulls a badly burned Sterling out.
Penny appears at the Pattern next to Morvyn and attacks him. Morvyn is much better than she. He drags her to the Pattern: Shall I send you home? He walks across the Pattern and puts her in the center.
Rinaldo finds his mom in a bad mood. He goes with Fatima and Clarissa to the Fount, avoiding Jasra.
Rune tries Kevin’s Trump; no answer. Penny arrives and calls for a doctor; Rune sketches an ER.
Fatima, Rinaldo, and Clarissa go to the Fount room. Rinaldo says the Fount looks fine. Brand shows up. Fatima panics and Trumps out, then Trumps Rinaldo to say goodnight.
Castle Argent is busy - servants, doctors, etc. Kevin blocks Fatima’s Trump. She goes to find Rune and Sterling. Fatima starts treating Sterling.
Kevin enters the castle and seeks Corwin. Dad is at the Pattern. He goes there and sees an unconscious Corwin on the ground as the Jewel of Judgment hits Kevin in the chest. Kevin questions Morvyn, and learns that he is “A local representation of his opposite self.”
Corwin gets patched up, talks about the Morvyn issue.
Postgame -
One thing I forgot to cover during the session today: The day after the events of this session, one of the small churches of the Unicorn ships off all their holy relics to other churches, and changes their signage to "Church of the Raven." Those who ask learn that the priest had a vision of Argent's patron deity, and has converted to the new faith. The goddess is often referred to as "Mother Raven." Over the next week, the small temple becomes full to bursting with followers, and they will need to relocate to a larger location.
Sterling will be mostly healed up within a couple days Argent time. There are side effects from Shadow healing, but he's unlikely to trip them up.
Penny receives heaps of blue and silver flowers. It is unknown who they are from.
After recovering, Corwin and Merlin lock themselves up in Corwin's office for the next week. The nature of their conspiring will be revealed at the next session.
For those who care, it's spelled Morvyn. And yes, the Pattern in that nether realm can be walked. The name of the realm is Acerbus.
Characters Present:
Rune
Sterling
Kevin
Fatima
Kei
Penelope
When we begin: Rune is hanging out with Kaji, teaching him Trump. Sterling is with Kevin, in a Tir boardroom meeting. Penny is having high tea with ambassadorial women. Fatima is in her constabulary office. Kei is heading for the castle kitchen in search of her father.
Rune hears a cawing outside his window and goes to look Every surface outside is covered in ravens People walk through them, oblivious. Rune sends Kaji to his room, and goes to find Kei. He finds her in the kitchen and reports what he’s seen. They look out a window - nothing. Nothing can be seen from Rune’s window, either. Kei suggests that Rune have Merlin check him out.
Sterling and Kevin smell something burning. They check out the area on the sly, and find nothing on fire. Kevin brings up the Pattern and gets rid of the smell, and passes a cleanse onto Sterling.
Penny is getting talked up about the nobility of Weirmonken males. She gets an unsigned invitation to a warehouse, and excuses herself from the matchmakers.
Fatima pushes her chair back from her desk, and the floor goes slosh. She calls an assistant, and then a magician, who can find no water nor magical traces.
Kei finds Corwin in his office. There are empty coffee carafes on the floor and paperwork on his desk. She asks his permission for Kaji to walk the Pattern. Corwin agrees, telling her to have Merlin ascertain that Kaji is ready. Kei also asks if she may be released from duty as the army general, as she would like to focus on something that is not martial. Corwin agrees, asking if Kei will leave the army to its own hierarchical bureaucracy, or pass the helm to one of her siblings. Kei says that she doesn’t know yet.
Rune discusses ravens and madness with Merlin.
Kevin gets a Trump call - wards up! - and he answers. Fatima tells him that she has a problem - please come. He agrees to come home and passes a note to Sterling, then causes a commotion for the gentleman leading the meeting. The meeting is adjourned, and the brothers head home.
Penny goes to Fatima regarding the invitation she received. She gets an officer escort and takes a cab to the place. Fatima puts the building under surveillance. Penny does not want a Trump; she takes a high-tech range weapon and a walkie-talkie. At this time, Kei tries Trumping Penny, but is refused.
Rune gets a note from Brand asking to meet him at a hotel in Argent City. Rune goes, and notices that the air is colder.
Kevin and Sterling head to the constabulary, where Fatima tells them about the water problem. They can’t find anything; Penny leaves.
Kevin Trumps Rune and learns that Rune is about to meet with Brand. Kevin hangs up quickly and ups his wards.
Fatima calls Merlin regarding her watery problem. Merlin gets Penny’s walkie-talkie frequency and gives the phone to Kei, who asks Penny if she will come to the castle to speak when she’s finished in the city.
Rune senses Trump energy in the hotel and heads up there. The room has four different vistas that are Trump openings. Brand is there, his color washed out and he is wearing all white. He asks if Rune prefers getting his mother back from the land of the dead or going back in time. Back in time, please! Rune hangs around while Brand works.
Fatima, Kevin, and Sterling during life during Brand-time.
Rune is given a Trump that looks like a street in Argent. Brand thinks it should send Rune back in time. Rune activates it and goes through.
Penny goes to the appointed office, but no one is there. She sits down and notices a space on the floor - a trap door. She opens it, and the air below smells like flowers. The officer goes down first, and Penny follows. There is a dark hallway with a light ahead. They reach a room where there is a painting of Penny on the wall, candles, pews, photos of Penny from a distance. Penny decides that they need to leave, but the trap door swings shut and a gunshot rings out. The officer is down. A redheaded woman dressed like Penny approaches with a sword. “I will be Penelope, Princess of Argent,” the interloper claims. Penny shoots. There are screams and running from a hidden room, where Penny finds a priest who begs her not to hurt him. She drags the priest and the constable out of the building. From there, she calls in to Fatima, who tells Penny how to call the other constables to her.
Rune appears forty years in the past and goes to his home Shadow. There he sees a growing ball of Chaos at the base of his apartment - this would be when Random came for him. He tries to use the Pattern to dampen the Chaos.
Penny is cross about the cult. She talks to Fatima on the walkie-talkie on the way to the office, with the priest in tow. In the office, Sterling notices a wash of wave from a bad section of Argent. Kevin, Fatima and Sterling zip there. There’s a big hole of a city block. Kevin senses a big chunk of Corwin’s Pattern. Sterling sees someone on the other side of the hole, who disappears. The man was an albino, all dressed in white.
Penny gets to the office but no one is there. She goes to the castle to speak with kei. Kei hangs the priest’s robe on a hook, with the priest in them, and then offers Penny the job of army general. Penny accepts, and tells Kei about the cult. Kei shakes the priest and instructs him to tell Penny what she wants to know.
Rune is ambushed by a Lord of Chaos and they get into a fight. Shadow dwellers try to break up the fight.
Kevin tries to reconstruct the big hole to see who did it. Fatima gets a hold of Corwin.
Penny and Kei interrogate the priest. The woman Penny shot was “the sword maiden.”
Fatima reports to Corwin, and he comes through. “How did I not notice this?” he wonders. He steps forward to the edge and disappears. Fatima follows, falls, and grabs a pipe. She sits on the pipe and tries to Trump Corwin. There is a weak contact, so she gets hoelp from Sterling. They see Corwin in a twilit world. Fatima asks Sterling to call Rune, but there is no response. Merlin is contacted and comes through, and he pulls Fatima out of the hole with a Logrus tendril. Merlin adds in to the Trump contact with Corwin. Corwin reports that there is a palace in the place he’s in. Fatima and Sterling go through to Corwin, with Merlin holding the contact.
Rune tries to contact Corwin via his ring. Corwin I.D.s the Chaosian as House Helgram before getting weirded out by Rune. Rune goes to find his mom.
Fatima and Sterling step through but lose Corwin and each other. They’re in a place of darkness. Fatima reaches out with Pattern energy and finds that the place is as solid as it’s going to get. She tries to walk to bring her Argent into being. Sterling explores; his waves seem weakened here, as if on the fringes of them. The tries his mom’s Trump. The senses a cold presence and scrutiny, then he finds himself next to Kevin. Penny shows up to chat.
Fatima hears the ruffling of feathers behind her, but sees nothing. “How could you have forsaken your beloved master?” she hears, but no one is there. She has a conversation with “the archangel who gave the message to Mohammed” on faith versus love of her father. She gets a Trump call from Sterling.
Rune finds his mom and brings her to his rooms in Argent. He goes to find Corwin in his office, where Corwin is ready with a gun. Blam! Rune gets a Trump call from Brand: Ready to come back? Rune says no, give me one more day. Random and a younger Rune appear; the shot Rune passes out.
Fatima goes back to Sterling; she and Penny discuss cults. Fatima calls Gerard to report, suspecting Brand. Gerard reports that Brand has been in Amber all morning, and Gerard just saw him twenty minutes ago.
Kei is intercepted by a darker-haired Brand outside the castle. He wants Julian told that Brand wants the Jewel. Brand is wearing a pendant that looks like the Pattern. Kei agrees to pass along the message and leaves.
Gerard gets there; the albino appears with Corwin in his arms. Both men are beat to shit; Corwin the worse. The albino introduces himself as Morvyn. Deirdre shows up. Corwin says he was jumped by the albino, who said it was part of a lesson. Rune gets patched up at the castle. Kevin goes to get the Jewel. Rune’s mom’s Trump is cold. He puts it away for now.
There is another ripple in the waves, and another city block disappears. Another ripple, and the first city block returns, now perfectly white. Sterling’s scope shows that it’s been purified.
At the Primal Pattern, Kevin finds the ground black with ravens. A few hope on his shoulders. All at once they rise and fly away. They were Argent Pattern-flavored. Kevin Trumps back to the group via Sterling. Kei arrives to report on her meeting with Brand. Another ripple, and the second block returns, purified.
Rune doesn’t recognize the artist who did the Trump of the Helgram guy. He Trumps his mom and is happy!
Corwin says that the buildings remind him of Tir: ephemeral. Kevin works on the analysis of the blood left on Grayswandir. Corwin reports that there are portals in the shadows of Argent.
Siblings discuss the problem. Rune returns to his rooms to get his sword and staff. Kevin checks out the staff. It seems to have Amber and Fount power in it. Kevin wards off the two buildings, and he and Kei go through the portal. They are immediately separated. Kev looks around, smells burning. He sees Brand all in red with a flaming sword. He charges at Kevin, cutting through Kev’s wards. Kevin runs, and sees a palace ahead.
Kei walks toward the palace. Brand appears and demands the Jewel. He grabs her shirt, and she grabs his hand. They argue about Julian. Brand demands that Kei let got of his hand, but she does not. They are falling from a great height toward the ground. Kei finally lets go and falls into water. She swims and shifts Shadow.
Rune walks a block and Trumps Brand. He tells his uncle about the several problems. Brand goes there to him, but Sterling shows up and Brand Trumps out. Annoyed, Rune goes to the castle and Trumps Brand, to whom he is pulled through.
Kevin is chased into the palace. Dara throws him against a wall. “I think you forgot who owns who,” she says. He feels her fingers sink into his chest. Brand comes in and chops at Dara. Kev’s clone blows up. The real Kevin shows up in Argent. Fatima Trumps a waterlogged Kei and brings her through. Kevin inspects the staff. The siblings chat about the Fount.
Under Brand’s instruction, Rune Trumps one of the lesser Brands. This one is wearing a blue suit and is carrying a chalice. Brand goes through to him, the lesser Brand disappears, and the real Brand feels his power level rise. They continue with the other Brands.
Kevin Trumps Jasra. He tries to chat, but gets smarmy, and she shuts the contact.
Brand and Rune get the last of the Brands, but there’s still a tiny bit missing. Brand Trumps to a roof above the gathered family and shouts down to Corwin that he wants the staff. Corwin pops up to Brand, the staff disappears, Corwin pulls a gun, and Brand Trumps out.
Rune Trumps Brand; his uncle is squirrelly and eating ice cream. Rune comes through for ice cream. They hide from Jasra’s wrath in Brand’s rooms.
Kevin, Sterling, Penny, Corwin, Merlin, Deirdre, and Gerard go to the Well. The Lady there takes them through to Bleachtown. She says it is Corwin’s doing - it is his Shadow.
Fatima talks to Rinaldo about Jasra and meets Clarissa.
Kevin talks to his girlfriend in the dark place, They see a hospital like where they rescued Deirdre. So, Dad, what is it you don’t deal with? Hands reach out and pull them down below ground. Men, women, and children are there with accusing looks and grabbing hands. Kevin feels his wards pushing back - the Jewel of Q pushing against another Jewel. He escapes the problem via will, and falls into a car seat.
Sterling finds himself in his childhood room. Sterling’s bedroom catches fire. The door opens, and there are huge teeth in a huge mouth. Rune Trumps him, offering to bring him through, but Sterling refuses. The teeth bite through a wall, and Sterling is tossed into the mouth. Acid burns! He fires into the belly of the beast. FOOM! Rune pulls a badly burned Sterling out.
Penny appears at the Pattern next to Morvyn and attacks him. Morvyn is much better than she. He drags her to the Pattern: Shall I send you home? He walks across the Pattern and puts her in the center.
Rinaldo finds his mom in a bad mood. He goes with Fatima and Clarissa to the Fount, avoiding Jasra.
Rune tries Kevin’s Trump; no answer. Penny arrives and calls for a doctor; Rune sketches an ER.
Fatima, Rinaldo, and Clarissa go to the Fount room. Rinaldo says the Fount looks fine. Brand shows up. Fatima panics and Trumps out, then Trumps Rinaldo to say goodnight.
Castle Argent is busy - servants, doctors, etc. Kevin blocks Fatima’s Trump. She goes to find Rune and Sterling. Fatima starts treating Sterling.
Kevin enters the castle and seeks Corwin. Dad is at the Pattern. He goes there and sees an unconscious Corwin on the ground as the Jewel of Judgment hits Kevin in the chest. Kevin questions Morvyn, and learns that he is “A local representation of his opposite self.”
Corwin gets patched up, talks about the Morvyn issue.
Postgame -
One thing I forgot to cover during the session today: The day after the events of this session, one of the small churches of the Unicorn ships off all their holy relics to other churches, and changes their signage to "Church of the Raven." Those who ask learn that the priest had a vision of Argent's patron deity, and has converted to the new faith. The goddess is often referred to as "Mother Raven." Over the next week, the small temple becomes full to bursting with followers, and they will need to relocate to a larger location.
Sterling will be mostly healed up within a couple days Argent time. There are side effects from Shadow healing, but he's unlikely to trip them up.
Penny receives heaps of blue and silver flowers. It is unknown who they are from.
After recovering, Corwin and Merlin lock themselves up in Corwin's office for the next week. The nature of their conspiring will be revealed at the next session.
For those who care, it's spelled Morvyn. And yes, the Pattern in that nether realm can be walked. The name of the realm is Acerbus.
