(I'm not positive about the order of what happened with Geryon and 
Snarsht, specifcally when the lab was breached.)

- Note: The massed guilds of Chaos scattered when freed from the
cavern.
- Kintani is called away on #ERRAND
- Geryon and Snarsht (the actual strike force) arrive at where the lab
is supposed to be.  There is blucite blocking the lab.  Geryon moves the 
blucite wall out of the way, exposing the lab doorway.
- Geryon tests the lab door with a fringe crystal, and is blown back with 
some effort.  Snarsht suggests hiding, and does so by clawing a space out
above the doorway.  Geryon finds another hiding place.
- A minion appears and checks the lab, and leaves apparently
satisfied.  Geryon stays hidden.

- Near the surface, Carolan starts losing troops (and blood) to
small wounds.  He suspects sneaky sorcery, and warns his troops: 
"Jhereg!"  One of his troops dies while he's telling them, but
a Ifrit is able to push him out of the way of something.  Whatever
the attack is splits the Ifrit's blade lengthwise. The Ifrit's
hand is cut (severed?) and the Ifrit bleeds fire.
- Carolan goes back outside the underground area and is able to
use sorcery to help al-Nasir finish climbing back up from the cliff.
al-Nasir is cursing more than usual, and bleeding while swatting
away something zapping around him.  When al-Nasir swats, shards of
metal are melting.
- al-Nasir and Carolan politely curse at each other in obscure 
languages.
- Natasha contacts Cagliostro, looking for Zorro (who has left
a note asking them to be an audience as he shows Llewella the
error of her ways).  Cagliostro suggests Cyndia or Janus, but
Natasha is unable to contact them via Trump.  He brings her and
Random through to the launching-off point, four shadows out from
Chaos.
- Natasha and Random are given a very brief briefing about the 
other side, and passed through a trump contact to al-Nasir rather
than wait for Carolan to conact them. Random seems more than 
usually stoned.
- Random plucks Carolan's mystery attacker out of the air, a 
small blade attached to something.  He lets it go, and prepares to
parry whatever that is (using a whippy Easterner blade that
Carolan created for him) while the army moves further into the
corridor. al-Nasir criticizes his form, he parries a golden needle
into al-Nasir, and their relationship deteriorates from there.

- Cagliostro notes that King Osric is looking unfocused, and
decides that since the King is not observing those around him
it's probably a Trump contact and not subversion.
- After a time, Osric (in a different voice) says "We need
a strike force, quickly."  Cagliostro asks who "we" is, and
it seems that the King is using the royal we for the first
time.  Cagliostro talks to Rainbow, who goes over to
investigate.
- Rainbow abjectly asks his most great and wonderful majesty
what his humblest of servants can do for him.  Instead of
the expected "cut the crap, Rainbow" Osric says "Bring me
someone important" so that he can get his strike team.
- Rainbow kills Osric.  Cagliostro politely informs Princess
Chandra of the sticky political situation.
- Cagliostro suggests redeploying, since their location has
been discovered.  Gil gains the ability to see in the
local area.  Rainbow loudly suggests "Run!".
- Cagliostro (with Princess Chandra's help) opens a gate to
a place he's never been, far away.  The remaining crowd
relocates (although it is undefined what happened to the
booze the dragon brought).  Rainbow opens a gate of his own
and throws Osric's body through it.  Gil can no longer see
once she steps through.

- The other side appears to be a connected set of fleshy
pink balloons.  Eww.

- After some travel that doesn't match up with the map
and seems to fold upon itself, Carolan's forces find
Janus's army and a few guards that seem to have been
stepped on by a horse.  Carolan and Janus prevent their
armies from coming to blows, and find the lab after Janus's
army spreads out and starts moving in all directions.
- One of the pictsies is standing at a place where Llewella's
troops seem to be appearing, smacking a spot on the wall with
his forehead.  He says sometimes, a troop appears and he gets
them.  There are a few bodies already.
- Random gives al-Nasir some analgesic after their argument
concludes, and al-Nasir seems to operate fine even with part
of his spine exposed.  They join the group.
- Janus, Carolan and Natasha meet Geryon and the lab
is reopened.  This also reveals a new door that
starts disgorging troops.  Battle ensues, but not
before Geryon gets stabbed several times and clears out.

- Moving the blucite reveals that Snarsht has clawed his
way through the wall above the door, and created a transom
gap large enough for Chandroids to crawl through.  The group
does so, joining a pitched battle between Snarsht, Zorro,
and a thickening menace in the air.  Zorro's horse is in the
lab, dead.
- Janus enters eventually by the front door, and is blucited.
Geryon whacks him with a table to knock him out into the hallway,
and the table is partially blucited.  Janus is freed via
Fringe Crystal, and Janus and Random enter the fray via the
transom. 
- The Ifrit can have some effect on the menace, but after
prolonged contact they stop moving.  The pictsies cannot
be blocked by the menace, nor can they affect it.
- Geryon experiments and finds that the blucited table is
an effective weapon against the thickening menace.


- Rainbow realizes that Snarsht is inside, and plans are
discussed.  Mistress Janice opines that the plan is now
"get them!"
- In the midst of trump contacts with Carolan (tapped by the
enemy), Cagliostro has a brief contact with Alice (not tapped
by the enemy).  The Spiral is acting strangely even with the
net in place, and sending something in Cagliostro's direction.
She worked her way down the contact list to Cagliostro,
unsuccessfully until now.
- Cagliostor tells the group, although he has to repeat a bit
when Ferethyn shows up.  Princess Chandra introduces Ferethyn,
who goes off to investigate after giving Cagliostro a coin that
can be used to summon him (since Old Lords tend to wait too long
for this sort of thing).
- Cagliostro passes more Ifrit and the remaining Chaosians,
minus Gil, Mistress Janice, and Princess Chandra (and 
presumably a few assassins).  Rainbow seems to take the
form of an Ifrit as he passes through.

- Attempts to blucite non-living objects fail, so an Ifrit is
told to step near the doorway. After he is blucited, he is used
as a seed to generate other blucited weapons to attack the
menace.

- Johnny sees a terminal across the room, and points it out.
The crowd starts to clear a path.

- Elsewhere, Cagliostro feels like he is being hunted.  It's
what he feels when Kintani is inbound.  He tells Princess
Chandra, who looks suprised and says that it's some-thing-,
not some-one-.  She suggests he clear a safe distance from
his daughter, which he does.  He also makes certain 
preparations in case the visitor is a member of the Black
Council.
- A galleon appears from no direction Cagliostro's mind wants to
handle, and flies through the air directly toward Gil's head.
Mistress Janice wards, and the ship slowly starts to break through
her active wards.
- Cagliostro actives the Ifrit generators, and conjures a net
to bind the ship in the balloon.  The ship shrugs off the net
as Princess Chandra boards it.
- Since Mistress Janice is busy, Cagliostro describes the ship
at Gil's plaintive request.  Gil recognizes the description, down
to the name "Dalkantyr" on the prow.  Gil curses, repeatedly.
- Cagliostro makes a backup escape plan for his daughter,
and creates grapping hooks for the Ifrit.