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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3551289" data-attributes="member: 3448">Actually, I'm not sure that we ever determined what happened to the armor.  I'm confident that we didn't just leave it there, but whether Lord Davion took it, or it went to the Treasury, no clue.---The Council gave a collective sigh of relief.  After a few moments of giddy happiness, Dame Brionna cleared her throat.  “Your grace, perhaps it is time for the formal coronation robes.”  Dame Brionna turned to Kit.  “Do you have the ring of invisibility?” she asked, referring to a plan they had adopted for her to invisibly accompany Alistair in the procession.“Yeah.  Time for you to go become Archduke,” Kit said to Alistair.  “Time for me to become invisible.”Alistair looked sharply at Kit.  She covered it fairly well, but there was an unmistakeable note of bitterness in Kit’s voice as she referred to becoming invisible.  He resolved to speak with her about it later, but immediately before the coronation was not the time.The Council made its way to the Vale of Tabewatha, along with a small army as a largely ceremonial honor guard.  A large number of fey appeared as the procession began its long progression into the City--mostly sidhe, but with a smattering of lesser fey.  They watched with a mix of curiosity and approval before disappearing completely as the procession left the Vale.All told, the coronation procession took hours, as they looped three times around each of the three walls of the city, before finally making their way through the Inner City to the Cathedral of the Sun.  Huge crowds surrounded them at every step of the progression, with great cheering for the Archduke as he passed by his people.  The cheering was distinctly loudest in the Outer City, perhaps because the people there felt less of a need to maintain a sense of decorum.  With the last of the assassins dead, the progression was a formal event of pomp and ritual.  While Dame Brionna and her chosen guards spent the entire procession searching for hidden threats or blades, they saw nothing untoward.  And finally, the procession crossed the Cathedral Square and entered the Cathedral itself.Alistair strode through the nave where only a few short days ago they had fought the rat-ogre and knelt before the high altar.  The Archbishop led Alistair and those honored with places within the Cathedral through a brief prayer and asked for the blessings of Glor’diadel upon Alistair and Canberry.  He then lifted up the crown of the Archduke of Canberry and spoke in a loud, ringing voice.  “By the authority vested in me by the Holy Mother Church;  by the authority vested in you and your family by your bloodline as Archdukes and Emperors of this land; and by this land itself and its people, I invest you as Archduke.  You are bound to the land, and the land to you, from now until you die.”The Archbishop placed the crown upon Alistair’s head, crying “Long live the Archduke!.”  Alistair felt a rush of energy rising up through his feet and filling his entire body.  Suddenly, in a much more concrete way than he had ever experienced before, Alistair was the Archduke of Canberry.[End session 19]-----A couple of notes.  First, I hope the tension was apparent-- as players, we were very worried going into that duel.  The Master Unbidden rolling three consecutive 20s on his last three saves before the duel didn't help.  Fortunately, his rolls on the representative round of combat were so lousy that it all turned out okay.Second, we asked whether we got any bonus XP for the Master Unbidden's death (beyond the plot arc completion bonus that we got).  The DM's response:  no, but Lord Davion leveled up.  Given how many XP it takes him to level at this point, we were just fine with that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Finally, we all leveled as a result of this session.  Back in the day, the norm was that you wouldn't get land until "name level", or more or less 9th level.  I was tremendously amused that Alistair became 9th level in the same session that he officially became Archduke.As a thread management question:  I'm thinking of starting a new thread for the continuing adventures, since this is the end of a major storyarc.  I would include a link in this thread, of course, to facillitate following it.  Do people like this idea?  Dislike?  I'm hoping to bring in some new readers who may not want to start reading a thread this long, but might start in the middle.</blockquote>

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