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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1878045" data-attributes="member: 892">Prince Caius was in trouble.  Fortunately, he leveled up and got leadership, so I let him play his soon-to-be-cohort, Hobb (former Rogue, now Hermit).  Hobb had a dream in which he was visited by an angel and told to rescue the man whom he would serve and keep to the path of faith in the one God.  He was told to rescue a gem, from a box, in a room, but not to attack the person in the room, for he would surely die and not save his charge.Hobb was sneaky enough to get in and pick the lock and get the gem (which throbbed with a steady pulse), and put in it a chest pocket in his tunic.  When he left, he tried to find Sir Caius in his room, but he was not there.  Then he looked for Sir Toby in the stables (he’s a centaur) but on the way felt a chest pain, and found that when he pulled out the “gem”, instead he had a beating human heart in his hand.  Also, the steady pulse of the gem was coming from inside of him.  Then he found that he could (from then on) always locate what direction Prince Caius was in.  But when he followed his urge (followed by Sir Toby) he found only a cell in a dungeon with one of the two Sir Andrews within it.  He felt that this Sir Andrew was the man he had to heal, and healed him, upon which Prince Caius awoke, but still looked like Sir Andrew (since his sword of Alter Self was taken from him).  So Lady Christine had to find the sword, and it turned out that Prince Lucius had it, and knew it was Caius’s and would not part with it.  This led to Hobb lying (ohh, bad for nobility), using Obscuring Mist, and in the hullabaloo (with help from that tile of invisibility) Prince Caius changed into a goblin, escaped his bonds, used the tile, and scarpered off.  Everyone praised Hobb for “Banishing the Demon”.  Meanwhile, Prince Caius, no longer dominated, decided to coup de grace the “nun” in her sleep, which cost a severe amount of nobility points, but was the easiest way of killing the villain.  Caius told no one about this.The next day was marred by the murder of a distinguished visitor, but the killer was not discovered.  There were still festivities over the death of the false Sir Andrew, the return of two sons, etc.  During these, the minstrel Leanne got some songs going about the party, and the centaur gave rides to kids.  One child found him later, in tears, because her sister was missing.  So Toby tracked her into the dream wood, but found a child’s comb on the path.  Then he turned and got his friends (returning the first girl to her mom).In the woods, the party discovered a group of 8 troubadours, who offered Sir Andrew (one of the only two characters not hiding out) some stew and a place by the fire.  Sir Andrew refused, and Prince Hammoton noticed a child’s finger in the stew.  Upon leaving, Prince Hammoton revealed this to others and combat ensued against the 8 ghouls (these ones were a hair smarter – they knew enough to shave their givaway braided beards, and to lure people off into the woods).  The party just aced the ghouls.  I may have to upgrade the monsters soon.  They rescued one little girl, but another was already in the stew.  Also, the party was set upon by a centipede swarm (the minstrel did will to defeat that with a fire spell that Sir Andrew did not notice was cast by her!).Then the party returned, and the mother was grateful to have her daughter back.The next day, Lucius was sent off to get married in Caius’s place to the eldest daughter of Baron Ivo.  Caius was given a peace-making mission to go to the druids in the Dreaming Woods (the false Sir Andrew had caused a lot of trouble there).  He got the rest of the party to accompany him.They had some dreams (yay!  More dreams!) and then ran into a druid, called Fox.  Sir Andrew did his usual introduction, and then the druid agreed to take the party to Raven and the dryad so that they could return the staff.  She led them to a clearing and said “I think you will find what you are looking for here, Sir Andrew”, turned into a fox, and left.  Then a very young red dragon came down, (breathing on them first), and Sir Andrew challenged it to combat (note: dragons get a few perks in Arthurian Adventures).  Well, the dragon nearly killed Sir Andrew, and then Caius cheated and attacked from behind, and hand-signalled Toby to attack as well, and together they killed it (Sir Andrew backed off, of course, being honourable).  Then came a Troll, followed by a Hill Giant, both of which Sir Toby took out, although the last was a very near thing.  During the last battle, some of the party sought out other druids (the minstrel wanted to talk, but got a summoned dire wolf set on her (she used hide from animals to evade it)), and eventually that part of the party found the stone henge with a raven on it.  Prince Caius addressed it, and it became Raven.  Prince Caius explained what had been going on with the false Sir Andrew, and that he wanted peace.  Raven agreed to bring other druids there, and said that the false Sir Andrew had killed the dryad and chopped down her tree.  So after that, they waited, and the rest of the party caught up.  The druids appeared, agreed to the peace (mentioning that there was one druid, Fox, that refused peace, and had been kicked out of the Dreaming Woods), but mentioned that some villagers were trying to burn down the woods right this moment.  So the party went there and sorted that mess out.  Finally there was peace.  A good stopping point.</blockquote>

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