Entries are by date, starting at the earliest.

Darkness Falls, Light Shines
unless anyone truly objects, I would like to play Rinaldo. Luke, short for Lucifer, Rinaldo, the trickster, Rinaldo, who wears the sign of the Phoenix. the ultimate salesman, in search of the ultimate sale, at the price of his soul....

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 1
Dear Mother, The dragon has risen. Did you know? The old man did. Both of them...father and Dworkin. I have been reading the diaries. The ones you kept hidden. Locked. Fear or temptation? Am I just another part of your...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 2
Father, Somewhere, beneath this memorial, you float eternally, yet, out of time. Is it cold there? Does the arrow in your throat burn? At the last, as my aunt's black hair drifted out of your hand, you called to me....

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 3
His Majesty, King Random I, Please let it be known that my wife, Coral, Queen of Kashfa, has met her fate. We appreciate the gift of healing services from your Court Magician, Dworkin, Master of the Line. His assistance eased...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 4
Rinaldo seeks Delwin's help regarding Dragons and Werewindle's burning.

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 5
From the Weekly "Amber Ambassador" The Society Column Four Years before game start In other news... was that dashing young prince at Duke Elling of Ellingtown's big wedding bash none other than the recently widowed King Rinaldo of Kashfa? We...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 6
From the Amber City Library Four Years before game start Addressed to His Majesty, King Rinaldo of Kashfa We thank you for the generous donation of books from your family's collection. We have set several of the diaries of Prince...

Lalage: Prequel Seven
Four Months before game start Dearest Ana, This is supposed to be the letter where I thank you gravely and sincerely for the letter of condolence, but I am so tired of those; I think I have written a hundred...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 7
3 Years before game start Dear Merlin, Hey, dude! Sometimes being a King stinks. All of those titles, and bull. heh..... I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy of seneschals. Their livelihoods depend on the bureaucracy. Anyway, Aubrey is in...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 8
...he would pay it like a true prince of Amber - as our three dead brothers had done ages ago, I suddenly recalled. He would pay it, mocking them the while, laughing though his mouth was filled with the blood...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 9
Two years before game start. Dear Tynan, It has been a long time, cousin, since we spent that long night looking up at the Tir, and wondering what kinds of strings held the world together..... I remember talking to you...

Lalage: Prequel Eight
Reconstructed from ashes found in a fireplace in a guest chamber in Thelbane Four months before game start Uncle: I told everyone I don't remember, but I lied. I remember everything. Be careful. -- L...

Lalage: Prequel Nine
40 days before game start (::Rinaldo:: TRANSMIT) They've taken Ray. What do I tell Daddy? What do I tell Grandfather? We have to do something. There are things worse than dying. You have my Trump. Come to me if you...

Tynan Prequel #7
Tynan Prequel #7 (::Rinaldo:: TRANSMIT) Cousin Rinaldo, I have given your question much thought. And, frankly, it frightens me, the implications of what you suggest, of what might be the true state of affairs as far as the Trumps. I...

Rinaldo-what happened after: prequel 10
1 year, 325 days before game strat (::Tynan:: TRANSMIT) Cousin Tynan, There is no recovery of the Eye. It is gone. To create something like Trump suggests there must be some similar handler. Processor? I'm not entirely sure of the...

Rinaldo-what happens now: prequel 1
1 year, 125 days before game start Dear Diary, You are the last of Brand's books. I have tried burning, drowning, wiping things away with cantrips, even spells designed to wipe the memory of things, and yet you remain....

Rinaldo-what happens now: prequel 2
Eleven months before game start. To His Majesty, King Random of Amber, Uncle, Years and years ago, Vialle trusted me in a very tricky situation. I need that again, from you. I just read the minutes of the Council...

Rinaldo-what happens now: prequel 3
Two weeks before game start To His Majesty, King Random of Amber Let it be known that the commanded might of the Thelbane Armies, as led by Gilva Hendrake in co-consortium with Belissa Minobee of Hendrake, deny the findings...

Rinaldo-what happens now: prequel 4
3 days before game start to Lalage via special underground courier Lalage, The fruit that is unripened is best left on the Tree. If you can resist temptation, I will see that you are granted a harvest. You are...

Onion Unpeeled
Day 1 (:: Bleys :: TRANSMIT) Do you honestly think I am going to let you die? I need you -- as many of you as I can save. Hopefully Lalage, too. You are the only ones who can...

First Firestorm (reply to Lalage: Why?)
approximately 40 hours after Random's death----- (:: Lalage :: TRANSMIT) Ask not I who holds the Eye, nor where it gazes, nor if I try. Things are not always as they seem or as we see it, or what we...

Visions of Smoke
(Day Three [Message given to a courier-imp Bound by its Heart to deliver with all haste. The courier, and the message, are never seen after leaving Chaska's quarters.] R --- I have seen you in a vision. You walk...

Lalage: Digging in the Dirt (4)
by Ranger Courier from somewhere in Forest Arden 10th day of the Regency Dearest Ana: I don't know when or whether this note will find you, but I hope it finds you in better spirits than when last we...

The Cell
My father kept journals.

Free Calais
The purpose of this missive is to declare that the Ways of Sawall Tower are no more! We control them now, and have Named them the Ways of Free Calais, no longer a part of the Thelbane Empire or of House Sawall!

Lalage: Blind Vision (6)
I found the book. I killed the thing protecting it.

Bathing in Bodies
Day Twenty From King Rinaldo's Personal Memoirs Hecate, one of Gilva's many lovers, a Hellmaiden, is missing. I want to feel something other than pity for her. I have been dreaming of Vialle. I think of what she lost, choosing...

Ana - Fire and Pearls
I have seen a red moon in Amber.
I have been touched by fire and reborn in the sea.
I do not know what any of this means.

The Star on Her Hand [Reply to "Fire and Pearls"]

At the end of every seven years
They pay a tithe to Hell
And I'm so fair and full of flesh I fear 'twill be mysel'.....

Ana - Froth
I will give you this: The red dragon is the child born of fire, and the black dragon is a child yet unborn.

By The Numbers
SONNET 77 Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book this learning mayst thou taste. The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show Of mouthed graves will give thee memory; Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity. Look, what thy memory can not contain Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain, To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book. Shakespeare

Rank and File
And so the first order has been given.
There will be disputes.
Mutiny. Some will march.
They have nothing left to lose.

Lalage: Regret (12)
Where he left his Lucasta, I fear I must seek mine.

Professional Consultation
Cauldrons... like swords and rings and mirrors, just another part of the puzzle.

Moderately Expensive Calais
Rinaldo of the Phoenix sits upon the Throne of Thelbane, and does what? Does he Negotiate with us? Does he Thank us? Does he Attack us? No! He IGNORES us.

Blood Makes Noise
I know little of cauldrons, but I know a lot about blood, and blood rings out and shouts for more.

Whispers in the Dark
They have had enough blood. Now, the fire.

Thrones of Darkness
King of the Darkness, Behind the Flame. Is he asking for help or for someone to blame?

Candles and Infernos
Lighting a flame takes the perfect match?

Fly on the Wall
The problem with walls is that sometimes, they're merely webs. Especially in Chaos.

Lalage: Showdown (15)
Thus does the weak woman greet her enemies.

Litany for the Dead
farewell, sweet deceiver.

Damascus: Excommunicate
I cannot give you redemption, Luke. I cannot even save myself.

Martin: Do It Again (1)
The problem with being king is ...

What's Up Doc?
The Lightbringer sez: "This Means War."