Auberon and the sins of our father

 Auberon

There's an old man with a robot arm and a lady and they're talking about being concured by Laconia.  The old man is like, nbd, new boss same as the old boss.  The lady does not share those feelings.  She feels like being concured by the Laconians really sucks.

Biryar Rinttenaur is the laconian appointed governor of Auberon.   He is trying to memorize the names and positions of government folks. The real reason he was given this position over others of similar abilities is his wife is a brilliant soils scientist. Auberon's claim to fame is they grow food real good.  

Biryar lands in Auberon's capital city and there's soldiers in riot gear lining the streets to keep him safe on his first day.  It smells like shit.  It's great for growing plants, but it smells bad.  The locals say you get used to it.  I can't imagine getting used to the smell of shit.

The old man with the bionic arm is named Erich.  Could this be Timmy's Erich?  He sure talks like Timmy's Erich.  He tries to bribe the new governer and it doesn't go well.  Usually that means he's gonna have the governer killed.  But he decides not to.kill him just yet.

Auberon is very corrupt.  

Biryar's wife, the genius soil scientist finds out that her local atache has her fingers in a lot of pies and largely the patents that have been approved in the past have all bribed her.  Also, her husband is the head of the labor union so likely they're part of a vast criminal organization.  She wants to take immediate action. Biryar says they can't do that.  They don't really have the forces to enforce much on the locals.  They have the vague threat of violence,  but that's from their super advance protomolecule ships that aren't even in this solar system.  So they gotta let these people self govern and try to create the image that Laconia is in charge with the hope that it will eventually become true.

Erich is trying to figure out a way to get the new governer under his thumb.  He's got a spy in the house and they told him that the governor was arguing with his wife.  Erich thinks maybe a honeypot is a good idea.

Mona has decided she's just gonna exert her authority. She goes to IT and says she's having trouble changing things and they give her the permissions she asks for.  First thing she does is give a bunch 9g money to a project she likes that was canned by the previous administration because she wouldn't do all the bribes. 

The governer is being interviewed by a reporter.  She kisses him.  He is not into it.  This has gotta be Erich's doing. 

Erich is now talking to the reporter about her failed seduction.  The criminals decide to dig into Mona to see if anything she does can be used against the governer. 

Governor is doing a talk on the other side of the planet.  Erich surprises him.  He shows him proof that Mona is misappropriating funds.  This is real devastating for him.  Laconian honor demands that he turn her in.  But instead he shoots Erich.  Erich has that robot arm that blocks the bullet.  Erich has successfully broken the governer.  He's gonna kill the head of Laconian security for him so they can sweep his wife's crimes under the rug. Also he screws over that lady that was blocking the science that didn't bribe her and his wife loves him even more.

The sins of our fathers 

FILIP!!!!!!!!!!

He's on some planet.  It has giant monsters that come out at night.  They charge into their walls and break stuff and it's bad.  They don't have guns so their best strategy is to burn it woth torches to encourage it to go around the camp.  It works with one,  but another one comes and charges right through the wall to the center of camp.  A guy named Jandro jumps on the thing and stabs it a bunch.  And I guess they do have a gun in the middle of town and they shoot the monster dead.

In the morning Filip's old broken body hurts real bad.  Mose says to get up, they gotta work.   Mose used to be Filip's boss before the star gate disappeared. They're still pretending he is.  Mose makes a big deal about how they aren't going to the town meeting cause their deal with the union says they don't have to.  Filip isn't as delusional as Mose.  He's going to the town meeting.

At the town meeting they vote to move the settlement cause their camp is right in the middle of the monster path.  The next day they start moving stuff but jandro doesn't do that, he and his group of tough guys start building better defenses. Everyone else sorta follows suit.  I guess democracy is dead.  Filip isn't having it.  Jandro reminds him too much of his dad to let it.go.  so he.kills him with a bomb and gets banished.

Evelyn ch 51 through end

 Ch 51

Michael is the killer.  He killed his dad and maybe his mom but that's unclear.  The plan was to have eve l yn fake her death with one of the black revolvers he took from their mom's room and then really kill her woth the other.  They're twin guns so the bullets will match.

But then there's a twist.  She drinks evelyn's scotch and dies cause it's poisoned.  Evelyn also starts getting affected by the poison but narrator has the antidote that he as Gold told him to get.

Narrator is feeling good until the footman shows up and says he should let him kill him cause he has Anna and it'll be real bad for her if narrator gives him any trouble. 

Ch 52 pg 544

This chapter is a lot.  Narrator is Daniel Davies again.  He's in a carriage with some ladies he doesn't know. They picked him up next to his car and they're heading to blackheath.  He jumps out when they get to the carriage house and he grabs a shotgun and heads to the graveyard to go after the footman.  On the way he runs into Daniel and he tells him the jig is up and he's all set to shoot him but then there's a gun in his back and another plague doctor and it's a lady.  She makes it very clear that it would be disastrous if Anna were to be the one that escaped Blackheath.   Then the real plague doctor shows up and he's all pissed off that this lady plague doctor is interfering.   He says he's got the situation in hand and she's all like hell you do.  If Anna gets out their bosses are gonna be sooooo pissed.  

Then there's other people with guns shooting at Daniel cause narrator told them about his nefarious deeds and daneiel and narrator emd up at the lake and Daniel is drowning narrator and then narrator sees the ghost of Thomas (the boy that was killed 19 years ago in case you forgot.) And somehow ends up back in his body and Anna kills Daniel and then narrator is dead again and I'm very confused.

Ch 53 pg 570

Narrator wakes up as Gold in bed with a maid.  He's usually crazy by now and attacking the butler but because of what he did different last night as Davies he's not crazy.   The maid does the walk of shame and the plague doctor shows up.  Narrator tells him Michael is the murderer and he's all cool, you won, tonight will be your last loop and tomorrow he will wake up as the real Aiden bishop. 

Narrator tries to argue for Anna and plague doctor is like, nah she's the worst.  This whole thing is a prison and she's in it for crimes against humanity. Narrator argues that she's not that person anymore and plague doctor explains that Anna killed his sister and the reason narrator volunteered to come into blackheath was to make her suffer more.  

Narrator says come to the lake at 11 and you'll see the real Anna.  In the meantime he's gonna find out who killed millicent.

Ch 54 pg 594

Narrator is having a hard time being himself, he keeps getting confused as to what he's supposed to do and he has to really focus or Gold takes control.   He has to take some time and focus on trying to save Anna and he makes his way to the gallery in the house cause knows that's where millicent will be heading.

Ch 55 pg 598

I'm a little confused now.  It's only 7:15 and Aiden as Gold goes to the hall and finds Anna and gives her a sketchbook with his events of the day listed out for her so she can take part.  But didn't she have that in previous days?  How did she have it if in those other iterations of the day narrator as Gold was insane and attacked the butler.  Also, I thought it was later in the day than this.  Greg will explain it to me. 

Ch 56 pg 604

This chapter makes more sense now, he's Gold and he still beats the butler but he does it differently than before so the footman doesn't kill the butler like he did in the previous days.  Did I mention that the footman isn't actually part of the whole prison thing?  He's just a thug that Daniel found and paid a bunch of money to to kill people.  No body jumping needed for that guy to do a bunch of murders.

57 pg 608

We're back in the butler and Anna is there tied to the radiator.  The footman shows up  and tells him he left him alive on purpose before but he's gonna kill him now.  If he tells him where and when they can get Davies he will give him a quick easy death.  He tells him Davies will be in the stables at twenty to ten.  The footman had a thug with him and he sends that guy to deal with Davies. Shenhannegans ensue after that and the footman and he as the butler end up dead but Anna is alive and free.

Ch 58 pg 617

We're back in Gold and its late at night Anna  cuts him down from being tied up and they go to the boathouse where they find lady hardcastle's body.  The next thing they reveal is that all of her children aren't Peter hardcastle's.  They're all Charlie carvers,  the Man everyone thinks killed Thomas hardcadtle if, like me, you'd forgotten.  Then Madeline Aubert (Evelyn's maid) shows up and she has a gun.  Turns out she's really evelyn hardcastle and the impression that I get is she killed Thomas hardcastle. 

Ch 59 pg 627

There's a lot of chitchat about the whole plan as evelyn leads them somewhere further away to kill them.  They're I'm a shack and the plague doctor shows up and narrator distracts evelyn by asking why she killed charles.  She's overcome with grief as she hears the news of his death as this wasnt part of the plan.  Charles was supposed to go in with Daniel on taking over Stanton's blackmail business.  This gives Anna an opening and she sacrifices herself to save narrator. At that point the lady they payed to act as Evelyn shows up and shoots the real evelyn super duper dead.

Ch 60 pg 645

Plague doctor declares them both the winners and says tomorrow they'll truly be set free.  He offers them the ability to get their memories back but warns them they might not like what they remember and they decline.  I assume they lived happily ever after.

I still don't know who poisoned the fake evelyn's drink.

evelyn ch 33 through ch 50

ch 33 - he's the butler again for one page

ch 34 - he's an old man named Edward Dance.  He meets with some other old men.  They go to meet with Old Man Hardcastle.  They're all being blackmailed by Stanton.  Hardcastle has found he has a bastard child.  If they can find the child and threaten to expose Stanton, they can stop the blackmail.  The tricky part is it's Daniel Coleridge.  If they do this they'll owe him a favor.  Aiden is in cause he knows Daniel is him.  Funny statement du jour "We climb out of one pocket and into another."

ch 35 - narrator stays behind to talk to Peter.  He tells him evelyn is going to be murdered.  Peter is concerned this will screw up their deal with ravencourt.   Peter has never heard of this other girl.  Also we get the story that the reason ravencourt wants to get married is to squash rumors that he is the homosexual.

Ch 36 pg  359

Narrator tries to get some answers from Gold, but he's strung up and unconscious.   Anna shows up.  They argue about stuff.  The note Anna gave bell to meat at 10;20 pm is a trap for the footman.  He tells her that the plague doctor told him that she will betray him.

Ch 37 pg 372

Narrator goes to the horse place to find the horseman cause he has an appointment with Lady hardcastle.   She never shows.  But he interrogates the horsemen who tells him 19 years ago that guy couldn't have killed the boy cause they were drunk at the time.  Narrator thinks lady hardcastle must have been the killer and that's why he thinks lady hardcastle is going to kill evelyn. 

Ch 38 pg 386

They go out hunting.  Narrator is sick of being in an old man.

Ch 39 pg 407

Narrator is back in the butler.  The plague doctor is there and they talk philosophy about their failure.  Plague doctor says Aiden is changing and that's good cause he's closer to solving this thing than ever before.

Ch 40 pg 412

Daniel kills stanwin. They rifle through his clothes and find his code book sewn into his jacket lining 

Ch 41 pg 426

The footman kills Aiden as Dance

Ch 42 pg 431

The footman kills Aiden as the butler

Ch 43 pg 432

Day 7 and narrator is now a fellow named Jim Rashton.  Immediately Anna is there and narrator is not happy to see her as she was there when the footman killed him as the butler .  Anna explains a lot of things that happened in old loops.   Now he remembers killing her and immediately forgives her and they get to work trying to stop the footman from killing more of his hosts.

Ch 44 pg 442

Aiden as Jim decides to go to Jim's bedroom where Anna told him the footman would be.  He's there and they fight, but it's not great abd the footman gets away.  They witness gold beat the butler and narrator smashes a vase on Gold's head.

Ch 45 pg 455

Jim's fiance Grace Davies comes to his room and unloads about her brother driving off in the night.  His first instinct is to go after him even though he knows there's no catching up to him as he was him when he freaked out and tried to flee.  Grace gets an idea, kisses 💋 him once and runs off.

Ch 46 pg 461

Narrator decides to confront Stanton. He tells him Daniel is going to kill him and as a reward for that information Stanton tells him lady hardcastle did kill her son. She claimed it was an accident and her lover took the blame.

Ch 47 pg 476

Narrator does some investigating and sees the footman and Daniel in kahoots. He goes to the reflecting pool to investigate. Grace finds him.  They head to the house.  They run into Cunningham.  They're all friends and narrator sees Cunningham in a whole new way.  Cunningham has stolen Bell's keys.  They're gonna take all his drugs and throw them in the bottom of the well.

Ch 48 pg 490

Cunningham and narrator as Jim go to bell's room to steal the drugs.  At one point Gold gave him a note to get some drugs.  So he gets them from Bell's trunk.  He tells Cunningham what really happened to Thomas hardcastle as he was told by Stanton.  He tells him he needs him to gather some people.

Ch 49 pg 499

Peter hardcastle is dead.  He was poisoned.

Ch 50 pg 508

Narrator figures out originally evelyn's death was a fake suicide.  She shoots herself with a blank, breaks a bottle of blood and then has paid off the doctor to proclaim her dead.  But the murderer knows this and really kills her.  Guessing by replacing the blank with a real bullet.  He tells evelyn this and tells her to make nice with Johnathan Derby cause somehow getting his silver gun is important. 

Evelyn ch 18 through 32

 Ch 18 pg 179

Ravencourts man returns and he has found the plague doctor's mask.  Philip Sutcliffe is the man's room these were found in.  Nothing else he has found out is so concrete.  He found a note to the lady hardcastle saying to stay away from Millicent Derby.   Narrator thinks it's a threat.  Ravencourts man thinks it might be a warning.

Ch 19 pg 185

Dinner is quite something.  Michael hardcastle announces that evelyn is engaged to marry lord Ravencourt. Fate worse than death if you ask me.

Ch 20 pg 195

The ball is a giant mass of people.  Doesn't feel like a sincere party.  Feels like the night before God destroyed Gomorrah. Evelyn shoots herself in the stomach with a silver pistol and falls into the reflecting pool.  Very dramatic.   Now we know how she dies.  Next is to find out why. 

Ch 21 pg 211

Aiden is back in the butler.  Anna is there and explains she's not a jumper, she just lives this one day in this maid.  She asks him when ravencourt will be alone and he tells her when to go and what to do.  She also warns him of the footman.  He tells her who he's been so far.  The doctor comes in and sedates him.

Ch 22 pg 220

I'm realizing now I'm reading the big pr8nt version cause that's what the library had available and these page numbers are probably useless to anyone else reading this.

Narrator wakes up as Johnathan Derby.  He's a short tempered little man.  He punches the cook when she doesn't immediately tell him where Evelyn is.  Narrator doesn't have as much control over his vessels as he thought.

Ch 23 pg 226

He chases after evelyn's made and evelyn almost shoots him.  Plague doctor shows up and tells him he's the one that directs Bell back home .

Ch 24 pg 237

Aiden stumbles across millicent waiting for lady what's her face and says hi.  She's his mom and she's all "stop being a wierdo and call me mother " and he's all sure.  His future self stops by and has a scheme to get the footman.  He later talks to Anna and she's all, don't do that.  He says he won't but he's gonna.  She then tells him at 10 pm he has to be where she puts a rock and not move from that spot and watch for evelyn to see what gappens.

Ch 25 pg 259

Stanton wants to talk to narrator. But he's gotta wait cause Stanton is talking to evelyn.

Ch 26 pg 267

Millicent owes Stanton money.  He's gonna have his man beat up Johnathan a bit to send a message.  Problem is, Johnathan hits the thug in the head with the chess board and gets away.  Even better, he finds the doctor that's treating Stanton's head wound and convinces him to sedate said thug.  He then rifels around Stanton stuff and finds a letter to evelyn from a felicity Maddox.  Then somebody hits him in the head from behind.

Ch 27 pg 279

Narrator wakes up as the butler and plague doctor is there and they chitchat.  He tells him Anna is going to betray her.

Ch 28 pg 288

Narrator wakes up in Johnathan. His head is hurt real bad.  Someone smashed a vase over it.  He goes to doctor Dickie's room and fixes himself up.  He makes a real mess of things.  Doctor duckies comes back from the hunt amd is very upset to se Johnathan.   He talks about all the rapes he helped cover up and how Johnathan said sorry about each of them but obviously felt no remorse.  He pulls a gun on him. It's the gun evelyn kills herself woth.

Ch 29 pg 295

Johnathan steals the doctor's gun.  He figures if evelyn is going to kill herself wi5h this gun, he can put himself at the center by taking it.  He decides to snoop in evelyns room and doesn't really find anything. 

Ch 30 pg 302

Evelyn comes to narrator and says gimme the gun.  He gives it and goes to his rock to wait.  Before that his mom dies of a heart attack. 

Ch 31

Narrator goes to his rock and sees the events unfold exactly as they did when he watched as the big fat guy.  Then someone slams into him.  He thinks he's being attacked.  But he's not, Michael just ran into him on his way to evelyn.  So it's not the same cause past time it was Michael that pulled evelyn out of the reflecting pool.  This time he didn't.  Narrator feels great about this cause something changed 

Ch 32

The footman kills Narrator as Johnathan in the woods with a knife.