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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1830809" data-attributes="member: 892">No Christina or Caius (fairyland!). I thought this might be a problem, since Caius is going to Prince Ivo’s to get married, but what the hell, I made it the other players’ problems to explain why the groom was in fairyland and not there.So, they saved the two girls from dire wolves and a possible Black Knight, and arrive at the parents’ house to find the parents (and dog, and teddy, and holy books, etc.) totally butchered, ripped apart, etc. So the party now has the smith’s daughter and two little girls to try to help. Fortunately, their uncle is the high priest of Baron Ivo’s land, and lives in Ivo’s castle.At the gate they see a mismatched pair; a dwarf and a giant (actually, the “noble giant” (really an ogre, but hey) that they convinced to leave the battle to destroy King Anguish earlier in the campaign). The giant “Gotch”, decided that a decent salary, uniform, armor, weapons, respect, room and board beat the heck out of dirty animal skins and living in the wilderness. A surprise for the party, since Gotch knows about the “double team” by Prince Caius when Gotch was fighting Prince Hamilton. Since the other “Guard” is actually a dwarf Fool (jester type class) messing with Gotch, the party is in a bit of trouble, reputation-wise. But luckily the minstrel Leanne has an insanely good diplomacy roll to pull this off, and “spins” both Caius’s actual bravery, and his “important mission aiding an ally of King Arthur in Fairyland”).Baron Ivo is a rough and tactless man who is vulgar with his wealth from the gold mine. His son Roderick is social, but sarcastic, knowing just what to say to twist the knife. The elder daughter will show up later, the daughters are not there yet.The party suspects Roderick of being the Black Knight, but of course cannot prove anything, so don’t say anything but ask questions about hunting. He finds out about the party stopping the “metal” scam, and promises to give a full accounting of what the other five villages lost, so that the rest of the money Caius recovered can go to their rightful owners.Due to a snafu (Hamilton asking for a special room for the “servant” Leanne), Roderick, and others, get the impression that Leanne is, shall we say, a woman of easy virtue. Later that night Roderick uses secret passages to get into her room and try to seduce her (at first he wears a ridiculous disguise, but he is a charming rogue). Leanne being an elf was not actually sleeping, and fended him off (claiming that Hamilton was in her heart, etc.). Leanne later uses those secret passages to explore and spy a bit.Ok, on to the celebratory Joust that was going on (harvest celebration). Some players enter (or are entered – Leanne was a bit p.o.’s at Hamilton’s snafu). Toby enters the archery event and comes second to a woman who is the king’s eldest daughter. Brigit by name, she looks very competent (though she is getting on in years at 35 for marriage purposes). The meelee fight has Anton and Andrew against each other (and I used destiny points to make their attempted subdual attacks accidentally do some real damage). And Prince Hamilton vs. Andrew (Hamilton wins that one) and then Hamilton vs. Gotch (no one said life was fair – but my destiny points here do piddly damage vs. Hamilton. Grrrr.). Gotch wins the on foot fight (Roderick made sure that Gotch faced Hamilton, btw (no one said that Roderick was fair either)). The joust was what they were looking forward too. From the pc’s p.o.v.: Hamilton vs. Toby, Anton vs. Andrew, winner vs. winner, winner vs. Roderick, winner vs. “unknown knight”. A shady sort gave Anton, then Hamilton, a “special” jousting lance (to try to “get” Andrew but Andrew carried the day (lucky, lucky bastard! Didn’t get touched once by that lance!), until he was bested by Roderick (Andrew was carrying the favors of Ivo’s youngest daughter, the beautiful Anastasia – the brother then tossed the favor back)). Then Roderick faced an unknown challenger and was unhorsed! The unknown challenger wins and reveals herself as Brigit!But the High Priest hasn’t appeared all day. It turns out he was murdered during the night! (Now what to do with those little girls, eh?). The priest was on record as asking Ivo to concentrate more on stopping the thieves that were getting organized around his land (the baron recognizes this problem, but also has problems in other areas such as the Black Knight, accidents in the mine, villagers losing their coins, a large dragon destroying a monastery to the south(!), etc.).The party agrees to investigate this murder and do something about the thieves’ guild.The party recovers a bit, and Brigit is investigated by Leanne (indirectly, asking others where she was, etc.,) and discovers the a) Brigit has an alibi and Brigit likes to try her hand at everything (she was shoeing horses on the day the Black Knight killed the parents of the little girls).Brigit soon discovers she is being investigated and privately confronts Leanne, and finds out HER secret (she’s an elf by gum!). Then she agrees to keep the secret (and advises her not to drink wine delivered by Roderick).The party (ok, Leanne) is later met by a contact who might have information on the thieves guild. Leanne tells the others, but they are not discreet. When they show up, they don’t see their contact and are attacked by 24 thieves (this is kind of cute since I set the pieces up on a 11 square by 11 square game called The Viking Game, and use the game pieces for the thieves. Ok, the thieves bar the doors so help cannot arrive (at least not quickly), and the fight ensues. Much later, the party has 2 members down (but not out), but the thieves are thinning out. But Toby used his haste ability twice, and rolled low on the d20 the second time (so I have the thing do something at the end of the second haste). The party disappears in a flash of light, along with one remaining thief!</blockquote>

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