Knights of Time
An epigraph goes here. William Blake's "New Jerusalem" has many appropriate
passages, but none is fully quotable.
Session count: 22.5 + interlude
Part I: The Crossroads
Cast:
Our Heroes:
Butch - The Knight of Cups
Bartender, arms smuggler, ex-special forces man and Telepath.
Henry "F104ting 90int" Holmes - The Knight of Wands
Hacker, Wanderer, Occultist and Superman.
"Anonymous" Jones - The Dark Knight
Drifter, Dishwasher and Marksman.
Supporting Cast:
Papa Sunday
1920's Hoodoo man.
Jasmine Sang
A Tantric Consultant, formerly of Nova Africa, currently residing in Berlin.
Lois Lumley
The demon's daughter.
Eric Lumley
Her dead old dad.
John Humphries
1920's Policeman, beat cop and future messiah.
In Brief
Episode 1: Ill Met in Manhattan
They get together in a bar. Weird people come in. Dimensional Shambler arrives. Big
Fight.
Episode 2: Down the Rabbit Hole
They talk and eat. They go down to a subway station where Jones first woke up and
following the tracks, come out of a tunnel in Nova Africa. They visit a catfish farm, and
Holmes teaches a young boy some programming at the crossroads.
Episode 3: The Flying Tower
They wake up in the small town of Harper's ferry and wander about. A sniper in an
airship-refueling tower draws them towards an encounter with 4 Russian visitors from
another time. Holmes flies the top of the tower into a cornfield, and they take the
Russians back into the train tunnel, from which they emerge in New York, 1924.
Episode 4: Tea with a Demon
Jones goes to buy some clothes and meets Lois Lumley. PC John Humphries investigates
a possible break-in at the Lumley house. Jones meets one of the russians, Boris, who is
bringing books to Mr. Lumley.
Episode 4.5: A Joint with a Cop
Jones and Humphries go to get a drink in a bar, but because it's prohibition (1924), they
can't. So they go and smoke a join in a Jazz join instead.
Episode 5: The Four Sided Ring
Jones, Holmes and Butch meet Butch's grandfather, a bootlegger. They help him with
deliveries, protect him from some thugs, and get involved with the illegal boxing
matches. Jones and Butch bet all the money they can find (Jones gets a rich woman to
pitch in) on Holmes, and make a bundle, which Holmes plans to invest. Back at Papa
Sunday's, there is a break-in, and Jones is shot. While Papa Sunday cures him, he has a
vision of being in a burning German fighter plane during WWI. They take a tram and
then a bus back home, where they end up rich.
Episode 1: Ill Met in Manhattan
Henry Holmes, a roving freelance hacker, is in New York on a consulting job at a large
Manhattan software company; Macrowares Inc. Holmes travels across America (no fixed
address) on his motorbike. A while back, his experiments in combining the occult with
modern technology allowed him to "hack reality", so that he now has "magical" powers
of flight, super-strength, and a peculiar force field. Strange, but true.
On the day in question, a bum wakes up in a Manhattan subway station, in a corner
mostly used by drunks to urinate. He is a thin, non-decrepit man with short dark brown
hair, wearing a tall long coat and shabby sneakers, and with 3$ and 76 cents in his pocket.
The bum has no recollection of who he is or how he got to the station. He has a single
thought on his mind: he needs a gun.
They get together in a bar. Weird people come in. Dimensional Shambler arrives. Big
Fight.
Part II: Dark City
Cast:
Our Heroes:
Elliot "ER"Richards
- The Knight of Coins
Powers: Speak with the dead
Occupation: Pathologist (crossed out), Working for Holmes and MCM.
Equipment: Surgical apparatus, Chevy Nova, tons of buffalo nickels
Ex: Emma Lionel Richards
Henry "F104ting 90int" Holmes - The Knight of Wands
Hacker, Millionaire, Occultist and Superman.
Michael C. McManaman (formerly "Jones") - The White Knight
Millionaire, Ladies' man, ex-special projects at LIP.
Egg Fu
A late arrival. Self-taught Taoist and lover of Bamboo Shoot Salad.
Supporting Cast:
Pauline Clarke
Reiki healer, New Ageist, former LIP contractor.
Rolf
Programmer, Satanist, newly-dead.
Lois Lumley
Still the demon's daughter, the owner of LIP.
OwenRollins
Brutally murdered Satanist
Jerry Black
MCM's ex girlfriend, Owen's widowed girlfriend.
Friday
Their dog.
In Brief
Episode 1: A Satanist Impaled, A Dog Remembers.
Our heros return from the past and find their funds managed by the Sunday Foundation
(managed by Tobias Sunday? Sam Saunders). They acquire a four story HQ, safehouses,
a tinkerer, Blackhawk Helicopter, a Ferrari F40, and a secret safehouse populated by the
toughest hackers known to man: The Hacker Mujahedeen (headed by Kareem?)
Owen Rollins is murdered horribly in a satanic ritual, nailed to the wall. Elliot arrives (in
his battered Chevy Nova) on the scene (at the docks, in an alley between two
warehouses) and investigates, seeing a vision of Owen's last night (he met a group of
Satanist and was killed by their leader, a dark figure).
Meanwhile, "Jones" meets Friday (a dog), who leads him to Gerry, Owen's current
girlfriend and his Ex. He takes them both to a restaurant.
Holmes sits in a coffeeshop, and reads about a nasty child abuse case, where a couple
ritually mutilated their baby. He recognizes the tattoo etched on the child's skin as a sigil,
a curse of blasting, which was posted 3 years ago on Satan-L, a satanist-occultist mailing
list he read.
Episode 2: Pauline and LIP
Jones, who learns that his real name is Michael Caine McMananman, goes to visit his old
workplace, the LIP (Lumley Institute of [Para]Psychology) corporation. He learns he
was on a "special projects" team that was disbanded 6 months ago. The team was headed
by someone called Patrick Donovan, who has been reassigned to the Paris office. It also
included a woman called Susan Wilson, who has left the company.
Holmes is approached by a woman in the Coffeeshop who he noticed reading a Peter
Carroll book. She introduces herself as Pauline Clarke, and they start talking, learn that
they knew each other vaguely on usenet.
Later they get together. Going over MCM's stuff (an old Photo Album, notebook, bank
notices and bills - stuff he found still at Gerry's)
Club, Meet Rolf, Michael Does Pauline.
Episode 3: MacOrifice and Gorilla
They hack Pauline's Mac, MCM notices the Gorilla.
They piece the hyper sigil together.
Elliot is hired by the Sunday foundation.
Episode 4: To the 64th Floor, and Beyond!
Elliot goes to lunch with Ethel.
They figure out the missing piece of the hyper sigil
Go to the 64th floor of the Empire State Building.
Find an old LIP office
Meet Lois Lumley. Elliot senses she's dead(?)
Are surprised by Pauline, Rolf and two goons (Mexican and Russian).
Big Fight, Pauline displays powers like Holmes.
MCM shoots Rolf,
Elliot threatens Lois and they both fall comatose.
Interlude: I See Dead People
Elliot has a vision of a man dumping Lois in the East River. He awakes on the shores of
the Styx, sees Lois in the water, glowing. He has a conversation with a woman in the
darkness who gives him a pair of scissors, and then meets Charon and Rolf. He boards
Charon's boat and escorts Rolf to the gates of Hell. Rolf gives him a phone number in
return. Elliot returns to the far shore, where Charon helps him lift Lois out of the water
and onto shore.
Episode 5: Enter The Egg
Elliot awakes in the office. They find occult books in Lois' office, which they take. They
bind Lois in duct tape and call up the number Elliot received from Rolf in Hell.
Egg Fu answers. Rolf gave him a disk once.
They meet Egg in the Green Lotus restaurant.
They notice Pauline. Henry hits her (hard).
Chinese patrons at the next table pull guns on them. MCM shoots out the lights. Egg
pokes one of them in the ear with a Chopstick.
MCM enters the kitchen in search of Pauline, gets squashed by her with a freezer door.
Henry pursues Pauline out the kitchen and into the back alley. Pauline takes to the air.
Henry chases her, throws her into an abandoned office building, smashed a Photocopier
on her, and knocks her down 4 floors into the cellar. Then he drags her to a safehouse for
questioning.
Episode 6: Cat, Mouse, Pauline
They question Pauline.
She uses a power word (the Lord's prayer backwards) to neutrilize Hank's powers. She
throws him across the room, bends McManaman's wounded arm, and rushes Egg. She
grabs Egg and flies out of the window.
Part III: The Pattern
Cast:
Henry, Prince of Amber.
Mki, Prince of Amber.
Elliot, Lord of Hell.
Egg, The Chinese Peril.
Pauline
Yue Lao
Eric Lumley
Lois Lumley
Her Russian bodyguard
Patrick Donovan.
In Brief
It will never get any longer...
Episode 1: To Paris, Fiji, Relyah and Beyond!
HH & MCM travel first to Paris and then to Fiji & then to Relyah. They take on Cthulhu,
and find the Pattern under his throne. They walk the Pattern and reach Castle Amber.
Episode 2: Learning to Fly
Not much doing in Amber, since Oberon & the rest are out. So they head to NY to meet
Lois.
Fu tracks down Pauline to a dance club, where she talks to the technician. He asks her to
mentor him. She agrees, takes him out, and throws him through the air, teaching him to
fly.
Elliot does Ethel (she helps him through the stressful period of being questioned by the
police, and having his buddies missing).
Elliot mediates to meet Charon and emerges in the Styx. Charon gives him scissors to cut
Lois' bonds to life. He takes a trip and ends up in the toilet of Lois's house.
Pauline is spooked, says a Chinese word to Egg and flies away. He flies after her, but is
attacked by a wall. He finds himself on Lois' carpet.
Henry and Mki (formerly MCM) ask Lois to take them all to the pattern. They get in their
car and drive around, coming back to the house. She leads them down to the cellar, where
they see the pattern. Everyone walks the pattern.
Egg asks the pattern to take him to Pauline.
Elliot asks the pattern to take him to the place where he can cut a swirling knot of pattern
threads he saw inside Lois.
Mki realizes that the pattern repeats like a fractal, and asks to get to the central, primary
and primal pattern.
Henry just leaves through the door.
Episode 3: Hear the Twenties Roar!
Elliot wakes up on the sidewalk with a slagged pair of scissors like a steel crucifix next to
his hand.
Mki wakes up next to him.
They notice they're in the past (the 20's).
Hank plays with his PDA, downloading vapourware.
Egg finds himself on a rooftop with Pauline. She tells him about the Fragments of God,
and how the Amber family memories are the attempts of a human mind to explain this
fragmentogensis.
They get back to the past.
They prowl the waterfront.
They get attacked by Ninjas.
Henry gets poisoned during the attack, but doesn't quite realize that.
Elliot get's wounded, punctured lung. He also first manifests here red hair, a black suit,
doctor's bag and a Kris knife.
Episode 4: The Chinese Magician's Sanctum
They follow the ninjas to a warehouse in Chinatown.
They break in and beat people up.
Below the warehouse is the Sanctum of the Chinese Magician Yue Lao.
There are stairs leading down, a cavern, water, a bridge, and an elaborate Chinese palace.
They have tea. Lao cures Henry from poison (inflicted on him during the fight) and
shows them the waterfront in his magical bowl.
They head for the Waterfront.
Episode 5: Eye of the Hurricane / A Storm, blowing from Paradise
They try to confront Eric Lumley as he brings a stunned Lois to dump her in the East
River. They find themselves unable to touch him – his car moves through them, and
there's a repulsion force that prevents them from approaching him.
Patrick appears, attacks them, stuns Pauline and throws her in the water. Henry and Mki
fight Patrick, who is both invisible and seems to have Henry's powers. Mki summons
Jasmine's Dildo of Power to him, and blast Patrick with it, shredding his invisibility.
Henry punches through Patrick's force field, apparently killing him.
Egg rescues Pauline, and Elliot tries to interfere with the ritual. Elliot throws his Kris at
Eric Lumley, but it freezes in the air before hitting him. Eric then snatches it from the air
and performs his vile ritual.
Lumley finished the ritual, and as dawn rises, Lois climbs out of the water, and drives
them (her and Eric) back. The PCs rush to the Lumley house, enter and go to the cellar,
they try and tamper with it (it houses Lumley's occult lab), they go through his books
(including the ones brought by the Russians from the Nova Africa parallel). Then Elliot
has an idea, he runs out into the garden and back into the house using the same route Lois
Lumley used earlier. The others follow, and they find Lois Lumley in the cellar. Eric is
on his knees before her, head thrown backwards, his chest cut open, and Lois is holding
up his beating heart. A piercing beam from the heart in her hands is drawing the pattern.
The pattern completes and erupts outwards like unfolding complexity, filling the world.
Lights out.
Part VI: In his castle in Amber, dead Oberon dreams
Cast:
Our Heros:
Henry Holmes, Prince of Amber
Mki, Prince of Amber
Elliot (Erasmus?) Richards, Lord of Hell
Egg, Prince and Peril
Butch, Special Forces Bartender
Supporting Cast:
Pauline
Irene, young Princess of Amber, Butch's older sister
A redhead in a green dress, she's Butch's older sister, seems to run things in Castle
Amber, and is very demure and sheltered.
Henry, young Prince of Amber
Late teens, reading a book on Quantum Mechanics. Older Henry gave him a
programming book.
Pao Lin, daughter of Yue Lao and hostage in Amber
Quiet, beautiful, and skilled in Calligraphy.
Yue Lao, Lord of the East
Young Egg Fu, son of Yue Lao and hostage in Amber
Young Chinese boy.
Bridget, young Princess of Amber and Hell
A pale blonde, she is loud, fun-loving, and enjoys alcohol and cigars. Competent with a
Halberd.
Bridget, 3 years older...
Hangs out in a bar in New Orleans(?), has a scar on her arm.
Butch, teenage Prince of Amber
AKA young prince William, early teens, takes care of the stables.
Young Jasmine, hostage of Amber
Young girl, wears turban.
A Chinese Dragon
Some ugly invisible Gargoyles
Patrick Donovan (cameo)
In Brief
Episode 1: The Dawn
Around them, everything is dark, but slowly, details and light begin to appear: the stars
light up in the sky, grass grows beneath their feet, and mountains rise in the distance.
They begin to walk, and presently arrive at a castle, just before dawn.
They reach the castle, are greeted by Irene, who shows them their bedrooms. They sleep but there's also the "Hot Chocolate" incident: Egg comes to wake Pauline and finds Mki
in her room.
Henry meets young Henry and gives him a book on Hacking.
They discover a family tree in the library. The tree is star-shaped, and looks like this:
EL => Charon => Erasmus / Bridget
EL => Oberon => Henry / Pauline
EL => Elegba => Mki / Jasmine
EL => Yue Lao => Egg Fu / Pao Lin
EL => Luvah => William / Irene
Egg learns from Pao Lin how to contact Yue Lao, he contacts Yue Lao who warns him of
great danger.
Egg takes a horse and rides off. At the edge of a marsh, he meets a flying oriental dragon,
which eats his horse and flies him to Lao's city, beyond the mountains of the moon.
The others socialize and settle down for tea, when someone comes down the stairs.
Episode 2: Butch's Back
(Mki's player was absent, and Mki only appeared in the first and last scene).
In a flashback, Butch was hired by someone (probably Patrick), He was given a big
sword (in several pieces, in a case), took a bag of weapons and headed down a subway
train (THE subway train) with the guy who hired him. Patrick got off in the 20's, and
Butch gets off a station later, in an underground tunnel. He climbs upstairs and finds
himself in the castle.
Butch comes down the stairs of the dining room and meets everyone. Much surprise.
Henry decides to take Butch to show him the Pattern in the castle, and asks Irene to show
him where it is. Mki and Pauline head back upstairs.
Gargoyle attack.
Episode 3: Oberon destroys his children
Showdown in Pattern room, Oberon arrives to kill everyone.
Henry & Mki go off for a taco.
Part V: Back in New York City
Cast
In addition to our heros, we also have:
Sarah, of LIP
Some Guy
Was with Sarah when Al Massri arrived and fell unconscious.
Gassan Al-Massri
An Arab followed from a Mosque, Kuwaiti citizen of Egyptian extraction, driving a
rented car uptown.
Bridget, in Hell
(which version? the dead one...)
Rolf
(still dead, and not too happy about it)
A Shadow Creature
Yue Lao
Asian Mastermind on the Moon
Yue Lao's daughter (Pao Lin)
In Brief
Episode 1: Tacos in the Ruins, Tea on the Moon, Taming the Dog.
Henry and Mki arrive in NY and learn about the events of September 11. They set up in a
safe house and begin to investigate the terror attacks.
Egg finds himself in a bus, in the body of an Arab Physics student called Hamed.
Henry "trumps" Egg.
Egg gets drunk.
Egg flies to the moon and meets Yue Lao in Arab grab, with his daughter. They have tea.
Mki finds the black boxes of the aircraft that crashed into the twin towers. Henry & Mki
analyze the flight recordings and hear some alien voices on the tape.
Elliot travels to Hell, gets past Cerberus, and makes his way to a white mansion on a hill.
Hell is full of dead people, and no one seems to be in charge.
Episode 2: To reign in Hell, Mosques and CDs.
Elliot finds an iron crown in the mansion, which fits his head. He meets Bridget and
figures out that the mansion and crown are his - he is the king of Hell. He starts bossing
people around, Bridget vanishes, and he heads back, gets on his barge and finds himself
on a garbage barge on the Hudson. Where Henry trumps him.
They go to a Mosque in Washington Heights, where after prayers are concluded, Mki
picks a guy to tail at random.
The guy gets into a rental car and drives into Manhattan.
He arrives at Greenwich Village and goes up to an apartment where he meets Sarah from
LIP and some guy. He is sick. They lean on Sarah and the guy and make off with a bunch
of CDs.
Episode 3: Signals and Shadows
The CDs contain a bootable program ("Bin Laden OS"), which they load. It shows them
suspicious messages and sends out distress calls from the PC. Henry's PDA acts funny.
A shadow creature and some Gargoyles come calling.
They "shadow walk" after the shadow creature. Meanwhile, Elliot went down to the
subway, and was snatched by that same Shadow creature. In the shadowlands beside
Hell, Elliot talks to the creature and (when the others show up) convinces them to let him
find out who sent it.
Apparently, it was ordered to bring the Gargoyles to them when it sensed the activation
of the software program. Elliot learns that someone very familiar sent the shadow
creature...
Episode 4: An Interview in Hell
They argue about who sent the Shadow Creature. The Shadow Creature escapes. Mki and
Egg try to pursue it, but lose it.
Henry and Elliot sail to Hell. After they Enter, Elliot asks several people to find Ali,
Gassan El Massri's slain brother. Henry summons his PDA to him (he shatters a Doric
column and finds it embedded inside) and uses it to trump Mki & Egg, who have already
crossed the river in flight.
BTW, it is established here that Hell looks a lot like Tuscany.
They go to the Mansion and in Elliot's throne room, talk to Ali.
Mki calls an Elevator and takes them to the Hospital where Gassan is quarantined. They
question him. He tells him that someone from the Black Army called Louis, not his
regular contact man (Alain), was pressing him to hand over the discs. He thinks this has
something to do with Ali being killed.
They go back to their safehouse. Not that one, another safehouse. Putting their heads
together, they decide to find Pauline. They head to the club where she hangs out, which is
empty except for the barman and soundman (who looks like Alain, with sunglasses and a
hat).
Mki smells a hint of Pauline. He heads to the bathroom.
Holmes has a shot of Wild Turkey, Elliot goes over the fragments of paper his minions in
Hell collected from around his mansion. Egg knocks the soundman out cold.
Mki starts knocking open the stalls in the Ladies' room. Pauline burst out the wall and
tries to grab him, they tussle, he tries to chop at her, she blocks, Egg arrives, Pauline
hurtles through the walls, out the Kitchen and into the street. Mki manages to stab her in
the thigh as she escapes. Egg follows swiftly.
Pauline and Egg clash in mid-air, and begin an aerial dogfight. Mki pursues over the
rooftops.
Episode 5: Mexican Stand-Off
Pauline ducks into the 4th story of an office building, and Egg follows rapidly. Mki
swings off flags and ropes, approaching rapidly.
Meanwhile, Holmes realizes that something is happening and wanders out, trying to find
where the others are heading.
Pauline hurtles down a stairwell and into the large lobby of the office building. There she
stops and whirls. Mki swings in after her through a window in the stairwell, knocking the
plate of glass off its hinges with a kick, scissoring over the hurtling Egg.
Mki stands in a dramatic pose, pulling a hood over his head, a baseball cap and a cape
that extends from his coat. Under the cape he draws his sword.
Egg kicks at Pauline, aiming high. She ducks and slides along the floor, inches above the
ground, and comes to rest beside a central support pillar. Then with a backhand blow she
breaks through the marble facade, crushes her hand into the concrete and hooks her
fingers on the steel girders running up the pillar. Plaster cracks in the ceiling.
Mki slides towards Pauline like an ice-hockey player on his invisible skates and lassoes
Pauline's legs with a bungee cord that was once his sword. He yanks on it, but
unfortunately Pauline is anchored much better than he. He whips around comically.
Egg takes advantage of Pauline's prone position to land a vicious kick on her face/neck
area. Through gritted teeth, she warns them to back off or she'll yank the insides of the
pillar and bring down the building.
They back off, just as Holmes arrives. Mki goes to get a taco. Egg flutters around the
building, spots a police helicopter nearby, and tries to keep a low profile. Holmes sits on
a car and watches the lobby as the building is evacuated.
Meanwhile, Elliot shows up behind Holmes, having stumbled in the club and taken a
detour through Hell (where he shows up on his bed in the White Mansion) to a nearby
alley.
Egg flies in craftily, but the building is empty - no Pauline.
Mki wanders down to the subway, where the trains have been stopped because of the
feared terror attack. He wanders along the track, lights a cigarette, and generally walks
and walks.
He takes s service lift down to another tunnel and walks some more.
Egg heads back to Hamed's apartment to crash. There are a lot of messages from Hamed's
family and relatives waiting for him, which he ignores. He rests for a while.
Elliot goes back to his apartment, listens to his phone messages, calls people, tells them
he was abroad. There's a message from his Ex, Emma Lionel Richards, and he calls her
up and they have an awkward conversation. She's renovating their house, and a baby is
crying in the background - it's the neighbor's kid, she tells him.
Elliot calls Ethel (his co-worker from LIP) and they decide to go out. He cleans the
apartment, she shows up and they head to "Top of the Muffin" (?).
Meanwhile, Holmes is back in the safehouse (a different one?), and he receives e-mail
from Pauline, telling him they should talk. He heads over to her apartment on a
motorbike, calling Egg and telling him to meet him there.
Henry & Egg show up at Pauline's. She invites them in and offers them tea. Her face is
still bruised and plastered from Egg's blow. Egg asks her some hard questions while
Henry raids her fridge. Henry is horrified to find it contains mostly health food and
organic stuff, and contents himself with fixing Egg some Bamboo shoot salad (with
Tihini) and getting some scotch for himself.
Pauline says that she attacked them because they appeared aggressive, she'd just heard
from Alain how they stormed into his place and pistol-whipped him, and the last time
she'd met Mki, he'd tried to kill her. Egg asked why she'd slept with Mki. Pauline avoided
the question and said that Mki is a psychopath and shot Rolf in the head. Egg was
shocked and stunned to hear this. Henry said he remembered things differently.
They trumped Mki, asking him to come and join them in sorting things out with Pauline.
Mki refused. He said they could trust him more than the duplicitous Pauline, and that he
doesn't care about her. "And anyway, she doesn't blow", he said, signing off. Egg took
comfort in that crude statement.
They began to talk with Pauline about what she wanted, what they wanted - mostly
circling each other with questions. They brought her up to date on what happened at the
Castle after she "left early". Pauline said that Lois Lumley - or rather Eric Lumley - is
God, and controls the universe. Henry expressed skepticism and said that the world of the
Castle was a bubble, created by Lumley but since then destroyed by Oberon.
Meanwhile, Elliot's date with Ethel was going on well, when he suddenly noticed Patrick
sitting with a 16-year-old girl a few tables from where he was. He remembered that last
time it took Holmes and Mki together to stop Patrick, and he steps out to alert Holmes,
via "Trump".
Holmes and Egg decide to head over. Elliot says he'll meet them there once he gets Ethel
safely out of the way. Pauline says she wants to come with them; she has a few things to
talk over with Patrick after he threw her in the East River. She puts on Her coat, her
boots, contacts and shades, and they head out.
Episode 6 The Run Around
They tag Patrick in the restaurant, he ducks into the toilets and shadow-walks; They use
Elliot's power to give chase.
They pound on Patrick, eventually Pauline calls them off.
Elliot brings Owen Rollins back from the dead for 10 hours in return for information; he
tells them how to contact "Louis". Pauline and Patrick wander off.
They decide to ambush Louis.
Episode 7 Bus Stop
They meet Jake Nemesis, who looks like the spitting image of Oberon, and orders them
to investigate the Sunday foundation's possible involvement in funding Al Qaida.
They track Alain to the bus stop and replace him with a doppleganger from hell, bribed
with a Taco.
The doppleganger gets yanked onto the bus on platform no. 8. They chase the bus, but
find the doppleganger has been killed.
Elliot brings in Cerebrus in Golden Retreiver form. They track "Louis" through shadow
and end up in a shadowy realm, where they pound on a giant manta.
Episode 8 Ride the Manta Ray
They beat on the Manta and eventually surf it clear out of shadow and back into New
York.
Meanwhile, Elliot goes with Cerebrus back to Hell (from the Manta's shadowy realm)
and the dog charges at Alain. Alain ducks with the chain between Cerebrus' legs and
wraps the chain around the dog's testicles, nearly castrating it.
Elliot ties up Alain next to a bonfire in Hell.
Egg/Hamed and Holmes go to the Sunday foundation and after a talk with Sam Saunders
decide to follow a possible lead in the Sunday Foundation's Cameroon offices.
Episode 9 Springtime in Berlin
Elliot has a long talk with Bridget; He tells her he wants to abdicate being the lord of hell
and passes his responsibility on to her.
Meanwhile, Mki resurfaces in an alternate Berlin, where he meets Jasmine and prevents
two men with explosive sigil tattoos from destroying/stealing two of the three occult
books the Russians brought Lumley way back when. He gets the two books.
Holmes and Hamed reconfigure the computer network in the Sunday foundation's
Cameroon office.
Episode 10 Cameroon Networking
In Cameroon, Holmes and Hamed discover that it was apparently Sam Saunders who
ordered money transfers to pro-militant Islamic groups. They collect Elliot through a
toilet bowl.
Episode 11 The Sam Saunders Show
Egg punches Sam Saunders in the nose with is badge.
Mckee and Henry find a cogwheel hidden in a tiny globe on Sam's desk.
Episode 12 Ground Zero
They confront Jake Nemesis, the Machine Between Worlds, Mki vanishes, darkness
infiltrates the machine, Holmes hacks it, they get a bunch of dossiers from Jake Nemesis.
Episode 13 - Conversations in the Dark
They head back to Hamed's apartment where they are contacted by Egg's "sister", PaoLin. They visit her apartment and travel to the space between worlds, where they
converse with the outsiders, who tell them they are in contact with the rebel children of
EL and with at least one woman who is "not of Lumley".
Episode 14 - 911 minus 1 week
They go into the past to try and prevent the 9/11 from happening. They spook Ghasan,
and prepare a public service broadcast about the coming terror act, which they broadcast
on TV and in Times Square.
Episode 15 - The World Tree
Episode 16 - Remaking the universe
Epilogue - Love and Las Vegas
Egg and McKee (a Samoan lawyer) drive into Vegas, picking up a Horny Henry Holmes
(keyword: Mujaheddettes). They stay at the Ritz?
Patrick discovers the Miranda has disappeared while cooking Breakfast. He shadowshifts
to find the boys, whom he knows are responsible.