The Trefaldwyn Chronicle - Dark Ages Pathfinder

Dr Simon · Sep 25, 2013

OOC: Doghead is away overseas so I'll be running Breandan again.

IC:
Breandan looks worried for a moment.

"They're all buried," he says. "There's a graveyard behind the chapel, but I must say I'm a little uneasy about disturbing their rest. Are you sure that'd be necessary? At any rate, it's a little late to be digging up the dead at this time of night. Perhaps we can discuss it in the morning." He makes to close the chapel door on his "guests".

ghostcat · Sep 25, 2013

OOC:

As far as I'm concerned, Quint has already gone to bed. So am happy to fast forward to the morning.

Dr Simon · Sep 30, 2013

The party from Dinas Derwen are hosted in the grand hall. Gwyneira and Myfanwy are given a curtained off area, as are Duanton and Finuil. Gunnar and Quint share a communal area in the hall. The night passes without further issue, and come morning the hall servants are up, raising the fire and preparing breakfast before the guests. There is, as yet, no sign of Lord Meirion nor any of his household.

[sblock=Gwyneira]
At some point in the night you come awake from sleep, to find a man in white, with shoulder-length blond hair and green eyes, looking down at you from the end of your sleeping mat. And then you wake up again, and he is gone, and it was evidently just a dream within a dream, except that the room feels colder even for a winter night.
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[sblock=Myfanwy]
At some point in the night you come awake from sleep, to find a man in white, with shoulder-length blond hair and green eyes, looking down at you from the end of your sleeping mat. And then you wake up again, and he is gone, and it was evidently just a dream within a dream, except that the room feels colder even for a winter night.
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[sblock=Gunnar]
At some point in the night you come awake from sleep, to find a woman in white, with shoulder-length blonde hair and green eyes, looking down at you from the end of your sleeping mat. And then you wake up again, and she is gone, and it was evidently just a dream within a dream, except that the room feels colder even for a winter night.
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[sblock=Quint]
At some point in the night you come awake from sleep, to find a woman in white, with shoulder-length blonde hair and green eyes, looking down at you from the end of your sleeping mat. And then you wake up again, and she is gone, and it was evidently just a dream within a dream, except that the room feels colder even for a winter night.
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Kaodi · Oct 1, 2013

Gwyneira's blinks her eyes a few times before groggily rolling over and drawing her furs more tightly around her, shivering slightly. She has no intention of going back to sleep after that strange dream, but that does not mean that she cannot steal a few more moments of additional rest.

She looks over to her companion, Myfanwy, waiting for the other woman to stir from her slumber. "Did you dream too?" she asks softly when she sees Myfanwy has woken.

Shayuri · Oct 3, 2013

Myfwany, her long red hair splayed around her head and over the pillow like an explosion, was staring moodily up at the ceiling when accosted. Without rolling over, she turned her face towards Gwyn. Confusion registered there for a moment, then was gone; walled up behind a stony mask.

"Of course I dreamed," she said in reply, sitting up and propping herself on her left arm so she could rub her eyes with her other hand. "Everyone dreams. By and large, they mean nothing."

ghostcat · Oct 7, 2013

Coming fully awake, Quint looks round slightly confused trying to decide if he is actually awake. Without getting out of bed he goes to the end and carefully examines the floor. Only when he is sure that there are no tracks on the floor will he get up and start to dress.

OOC:

Search floor round bed for tracks.
Follow or identify tracks (+6)

Shayuri · Oct 9, 2013

Despite Myf's seeming dismissal of the dreams, the atmosphere of tension does seem to get to her, and she closes her eyes and concentrates, attempting to sense the presence of disturbances in the ley energy of the room.

(Using the Menhir Savant class ability; reprinted here from the SRD

[sblock=Spirit Sense]At 1st level, a menhir savant can detect the presence of undead; fey; outsiders; and astral, ethereal, or incorporeal creatures. This ability functions like detect undead, and the druid detects all of these creatures rather than trying to detect one kind. [/sblock]

Dr Simon · Oct 10, 2013

Quint finds no trace of tracks, or any evidence that something physical has been in the hall. Myfanwy's senses tell her that something has been there, its traces fading even as she notices the disturbance in the ley energy.

[OOC: the ability doesn't seem to indicate if you can tell which or what of those types you are detecting. I reckon give me a Knowledge (nature) check (since it's nature energy you are reading) for more info, but I also figure quite a high DC for anything definite.[/sblock]

Dr Simon · Nov 14, 2013

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Hiatus Recap:

Myfanwy the Druid, Gwyneira the Wise Woman, Quint the Tracker, Daunton and Fianol the elves and Gunnar the warrior have been dispatched by Lord Llewellyn of Dinas Derwen to help his cousin, Lord Merion of Dinas Hydd with a supposed supernatural problem - a combination of strange spirit-haunted dreams and a disease killing off the old and weak.

What they find is a disease that appears to be nothing more than a matter of hygiene, currently affecting young Rhonabwy the Butcher's Boy, and strange behaviour from the two priests serving the settlement. The older, Borther Alwyn, speaks only in Latin passages from the Bible whereas the younger, Brother Breandan, seems to be obfuscating over something, and accidentally (?) gave Quint a sleeping draughtmeant for Brother Alwyn.

After a night of strange dreams, Myfanwy determines that something is disturbing the local ley energy, but exactly what remains to be discovered. And so the group head back to Breandan's chapel with the intent on exhuming prior victims of the sickness.

The day has the bone-biting cold of a damp winter, with a sky of empty grey overhead and the snow on the ground turning dark with mud churned up by the people and animals of Dinas Hydd going about their daily business. After a frugal breakfast, during which their host does not appear, the group heads down from Lord Meirion's great hall to the stone chapel. As they near it, they see the pregnant girl who was watching them last night, watching again from the same doorway of one of the longhouses. She gestures to the group to approach her.

Kaodi · Nov 14, 2013

Gwyneira spares a glance around to see who else may be paying attention as she readjusts her cloak and takes the lead in splitting from the group to approach the young woman. As she nears she asks in whispered tones, "Shall I enter?"