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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1890427" data-attributes="member: 892">First, I apologize for forgetting to ask my players if they minded having their characters posted.  One of my cats is throwing up, and so my mind is preoccupied with the poor little guy.  I will try to remember next time.Happy times for our troupe!  Sir Toby gets Officially knighted, Sir Andrew and Lady Leanne get Ordained (in the Christian and Druidic faiths, respectively -- Leanne is the new "Fox" in the druidic group).  Prince Caius gave Sir Toby some nice chain barding and some silver horseshoes.Prince Caius takes the popular Sir Toby and the others around the villages on a "goodwill tour" to get good PR and show that Sir Andrew is not the bad old "Sir Andrew" that was terrifying them.  Then an unknown knight, with blank full plate and shield, throws down the guantlet at Prince Caius...literally!  Then the Silent Knight (for he doesn't speak a word, ever) rides off to a nearby field.  The peasants get excited (watching knights joust is like television to them).  Prince Caius returns the guantlet to the Silent Knight and then gets ready (which means that he cheats and gets Hobb to buff him up, and Lady Leanne buffs him up more), but after three passes with the lance, the Silent Knight still stands.  (Lady Leanne also used detect magic to notice that the Silent Knight has a ring with overpowering enchantment magic).  Prince Caius retires, and then the Silent Knight repeats the guantlet deal with Sir Toby!  This time, when Sir Andrew picks up the guantlet, he notices that there is some paper inside it.  He gives the guantlet to Prince Caius, who returns it to the Silent Knight (but keeps the paper).  Sir Toby kills the Silent Knight, who is then revealed as...Edmund, son of Sir Linus and squire to Prince Magnus, Prince Caius's missing eldest brother! (As well as Lady Christine's first liege, to keep this soap opera going.)  Well, that cuts short the goodwill mission.  The group returns to Castle Anguish, and the body is laid to rest in state.  Prince Caius asks Lady Leanne to get the ring from the body, discreetly.  But when Lady Leanne removes the ring, the body (armor and all!) turns to dust, and then a wind blows the dust around.  Plus, Lady Leanne feels compelled to keep the ring secret (she lies to Caius and says it was also destroyed).  So it is thought in the castle that the body was stolen, for reasons unknown.The paper has a code which the party mostly solves.  I will not post it here since I don't want non-player posters solving the puzzle before the players do.  If the players fully solves the puzzle I will post it.Oh, the horse that Edmund was riding on was PERFECT!  A noble steed, pure bred and blazing fast, and (as it turns out) noble in character (would not attack someone being attacked by another (no ganging up), protecting ladies, and looking with disapproval when later Lady Christines searches bodies.A wedding is happening in two months (Sir Lucius and Dame Brigitte) but the group has itchy feat (and want to check out the possible Hag around Sir Anton's castle, if dreams can be believed).  So off they go.On the road they run into a couple of peasants fighting over a pig, and Sir Andrew dispenses justice (something Nobles and high level Knights can do -- Ironically, Prince Caius does not have this ability yet, since he is multi-classed).  He judges in favour of one peasant, who boasts that he has the favour of the law, and if the other peasant doesn't like it, he can go off to that land where there are no laws or princes.  Well, that let the cat out of the bag, and the lesser nobles are intrigued.  They make the peasants tell them more, and hear of an old minstrel who sings of such a place.  They decide to check this out, going to the last village that mistrel was seen in.  This takes them off-road a bit.Well, they go to that village, and then try to get back to the road via a shortcut.  On the way, they come to a clearing in the woods which reveals a small castle!  And I mean really small -- 10 feet in diameter, with tiny minarets, etc.  "A castle for dwarves!" exclaims Sir Andrew, which pisses off Prince Hammoton and forces an apology from Sir Andrew.  While they get closer to investigate, Lady Leanne notes that the castle is an illusion!  But then the juvenille green dragon breathes an acid cone on half of the party.  Kills a horse, too!  OK, combat ensues and the party finds it very difficult to hit the dragon until Lady Christine dispells magic on it (removing the mage armor and shield spells, which synergized REALLY well with the dragon's natural armor).  Then the party fights, and eventually defeats it.  Under the dragon are three bodies -- two peasants and a nun.  One of the peasants has a crude map.The party decides to rest and heal up.  Lady Leanne during her watch notices that two peasants are trying to sneak past.  She warns them that they should go home (they were obviously trying to get to the free land, but lie about it, saying they are visiting a sick mother).  Leanne tails them for a while and finds out where they camp.Oh, and Sir Andrew managed to make a comment on the Lady of the Lake that Sir Anton follows being effectively "Fallen from grace" (a nicer way of saying she is a demon) and that makes Sir Anton challenge Sir Andrew (and their destinies have their non-lethal combat do lethal damage).  But the fight is inconclusive (Lady Christine casts Hold Person on Sir Andrew!).  The fight will be continued later, they say, when they are out of the woods and can joust properly.  Ohhhhh boy.The party decides to track the peasants to this so-called "Free Land" (no anarcho-syndicist communes will be tolerated, I guess).  They eventually get to a village, and Prince Hammoton, as spokesman, gets the villagers out and Prince Caius announces that Sir Toby is their new lord.  Then the party notices that these villagers are all male and all wearing gloves.  And the two peasants they were following are not to be found.  They offer food to the party.Lady Leanne asks to see the larders, and takes Hubert with her, quietly warning him that the villagers are probably more of those "savage cannibals" that they have been fighting.  But this sets Sir Hubert off to fight them, and combat is joined!An old man comes out (and says, "Get them!" and the gloves come off and the claws come out!).  36 ghouls and 1 wight later (and that took *much* longer to play than to say), the party rescues the two peasants (tied up but not yet eaten).  Lady Leanne searches the hut the old man came out of, and finds a chest with gold, a few scrolls and a few familiar golden statuettes (what happens to dwarves when they die is that their bodies disappear and these statuettes appear in their place).  This angers the elven Lady Leanne, who then sets huts in the village on fire using a flaming sphere.  Which the other knights see.  Including the anti-hellfire, pro-Christian Sir Andrew.  Oy.  Looks like there will be intra-party violence next game!I guess things were bound to come to a head between the Old Faith guys and Sir Andrew eventually.  It will be interesting to see where this one leads.</blockquote>

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