Fane's Diary

Night 15? I'm losing track...

So we then fly down to Cordelia’s tower. 

Once we are inside Sorcha changes back to her human form, well at least it looks fully human. I changed into vampire form as is better for protection.

Cordelia says that Dorkings tower is on the other side of the castle and we will have to find a way there. I offer to go and help her. 

Allanon says he can cloak us both, cool spell. 

So we head off cloaked and first come to Cordelia’s bedroom which has what looks like a pool in it. Cool. 

I can just make out Cordelia’s directions and we move slowly into the castle. Then at one point she says this wont work. And for me to stay here. She comes back a short while later and touches my arm to say she is back. 

She says we can’t go that way and so should go back and get the others. 

On the way back I change my form slightly so that I can try echo location on Cordelia. And yes I can see her. Well this info will be good to know. Also Cordelia does not react to the sound so she can’t hear sounds this high up and as no guards come running I guess they can’t either. Which is in some ways more useful info than seeing Allanon. 

When we get back Allanon dispels the cloak and Cordelia explains that we have to go a different way. And this time well will all go. It involves a trump to Dorkings study. 

    So you can make trumps of object too not just people interesting to know. 

On the way past the pool, Sorcha comments on it and Cordelia says it a trump construct. To which I ask it if like Ghost wheel. She asks me about when I saw it and I tell her no reason to lie I told Mikato all about it. 

    Oh and she say that if you have both blood of amber and chaos you can control both pattern and logrus. Interesting 

    And there is no trump to her room. 

We head down to the trump for Dorkings room. 

On way we have some problems 

We meet some guards on a high walkway. The first demon is not affected by my claws not good. But I manage to throw it over the side then mange to punch the second in the eyes which on most creatures are the softest part. 

    I should test mine at some point. 

I then throw him over the side as well. Cordelia and Allanon have finished the other 2 off. 

We continue you on and climb down a lot of stairs at the bottom more demons 

I go for one while the others fight other demons. But this demon seems almost as good as me. I have to fake it out to get it. I let it grab me knowing my skin will protect me and then grab it while it is holding me. I manage to get it down but can’t get the killing blow in. 

Cordelia helps by stabbing it with her sword. Humm it looks like her sword is sharper than my claws, I will need to practise with my claws and see if I can get them sharper. It should just be a matter of shifting them into a sharper form. But I will need something to practise on. I will have to look into that after we get out of here. 

We only see one other guard on the rest of the way which Cordelia kills. We arrive at this cell block and Cordelia finds the trump but has to clean it or something so we stand watch. In the end she says she is ready and tells us how we are to begin. I go first and end up in the smallish office. With bookcase and stuff everywhere. 

I watch the door why everyone searches but in the end Cordelia just mutters about it not being here and that she is sure she read about another hidden room. More searching, but still nothing. So Cordelia says she will have to use the pattern. In the end she finds a key or something and then eventually a doorway into a larger office appears. We head through and search in there. 

But it looks like the book was found and removed. 

And the door out has no handle and I can’t even dig my claws in deep enough to pull it open. In the end Cordelia uses the pattern again and says there is a pattern imprint just under the door. And she will sleep on it. Well I know that pattern and chaosites don’t mix so I send my blood creature into the door to see if that breaks the pattern and the door will open. But all that happens is the blood creature goes up in a flash. 

As everyone else goes to sleep I reform a new blood creature and then sleep as well.

In the morning Cordelia say it must need the true pattern or something to open it and so she starts working on the door. 

It takes ages but the door does opens - yay. 

The door leads to a dark passage way. When I take a torch into it the torch goes out and Allanon’s light spell does not even reach the side walls. 

I tell them to wait here why I check out the passageway as I can see in there. No one asks how so I don’t say. 

I use echo location to see without light. This is very useful. And it good that not only can I use it in non-bat form but my mine retains the knowledge on how to see with it. Which is good otherwise it would be useless. 

I find a big chamber with a big animal skeleton in it that seems to have light in it so the weird darkness in the tunnel is only in the tunnel. 

I head back and lead them to the chamber and the skeleton. From there with light spell and stuff we find the way out. 

It leads onto the True pattern. This is the real pattern and we are in the real Amber the other Amber is the shadow. But everyone calls that the real Amber. Strange. And who case I can’t walk any pattern so to me it’s just a weird drawing on the floor. 

Only this one is black over about a 1/3 of it and a person that Cordelia identifies as Random is lying, and most likely dead, in the centre. 

And Blasé is pined to the wall. Cordelia is mad over this. And goes and gets him down. She seems very mad since entering here. She will not even let me help carry Blaze to the surface. Where we bury him under Stones.