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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 2093057" data-attributes="member: 892">Well, this one was interesting because I had no idea what I was going to do this session.  None.  I have been sick for a while and I spent my time resting, not planning.  But it worked out.Princes Caius and Kelvin were in heaven, where they got a chance to ask one and two questions of angels, respectively.  Kelvin used his to find out where Albion was and how to defeat him, and was given a mental map of Greenland (with Albion’s lair pointed out) and a vision of his and Caius’s followers causing a distraction while the “main team” snuck in.  Caius asked if there was a chance of him getting into heaven after his plan (at the time unknown to me, but pretty “ends justifies the means” method of dealing with one of their main opponents).  He got a general answer: if you do good works and avoid evil deeds, you can get into heaven.The rest of the party had a dream while Lady Christine was on watch.  In this dream a Hellwasp was spotted (a wasp with red, evil, multi-faceted eyes).  It flew onto Christine’s shoulder.  She swatted it away, but another landed there, and others, and soon she was covered in them.  Then they covered all but her face, which was screaming in agony, and just before her face got covered, her eyes turned red and multifaceted.When the party awoke, a bronze statue of Christine-and-Weasel was found, but not Christine and her familiar.  Spooky, eh?Meanwhile, to deal with the plague, Cassandra and Leanne found some druids and brought them in and warned them of plague and alerted the “Druid network”.  So we had priests, druids and poor Hobb the hermit trying to cure them.  There was also an alchemist in town talking about a possible cure for the disease involving injecting a fluid into people, particularly the children.  Caius and Kelvin convinced the townsfolk that this was a good idea, and Kelvin even injected himself.So 200 people died of the plague the first night, 100 the second, etc. (half the previous number each night), due to help from everyone involved.  There were also disappearances during the night.  At first these were attributed to people running away from a plague-ridden city, but then the party got suspicious when the disappearances did not level off like the plague-deaths did.The party staked out an orphanage (with Caius disguising himself as a child, Cassandra as a dog, and Leanne as Leanne).  Some kids mentioned a mysterious man that might take them to safety from the plague.  This man got scared off by the other knights arriving a bit too soon.  But Leanne, Caius, and Cassandra discreetly followed the man, who met three other figures and went in a different direction, to the, er, Red Light district (ladies of the evening, doncha know).Anyhow, it turned out to be 4 super-wights, who tried to lure and kill a prostitute (she actually was very lucky and got away unscathed).  Caius and Leanne engaged them while Cassandra went for help from the knights at the orphanage.  Combat ensued, the wights were defeated, and one was revealed as…the alchemist!Suddenly those injections took on a more serious turn!  Kelvin made his will save, but many townsfolk who had injections now believed that Albion the giant was the rightful king, not Anguish or Arthur!  A few guards even tried to kill Count Randolph!On searching the shop, they found more of the fluids, and a cooking pot.  They also tracked down a warehouse with 60 human bodies on hooks inside of it, plus a map that had useful red dots at various locations (could be great for locating wights!).  Leanne used her ring to ask Titania for a way to cure the madness, and was told of asperilla, that only grows on the west coast of Ireland (they were on the east coast).  So Leanne and Cassandra used magic to get over there, but found giants doing foul magic on a henge there!  The giants effectively “turned off” the henge from the druid/hedge mage network and “realigned it” to their own dark magics.  Leanne used spells to scare the giants off north, but it was too late.  Cassandra then used magic to go to the next henge north and warn the druids there, who were able to disguise their henge from the giants.  Leanne spent time destroying the “dark henge”, but there wasn’t time to “Retune” it.Meanwhile, a mad knight appeared outside the west gate of the city.  Anton and co. rode out to meet it, and it turned out to be Anton’s brother, Friedrich, who was out of his mind (Insanity spell).  After some trouble, they subdued him, and got him locked up in the city.  In his lucid moments they found out that he was led by a nun to kill a hag disguised as a lady of the lake (d’oh!) and then was given a book to read.  In his insane moments he mentioned the fingerbones of Christ and “the grey abbey”.  Sir Bradley’s cohort brother George knew that this was an expression for an abbey whose nuns had turned from Christ to darker powers.  Between the map from the warehouse, notions of abbeys in Ireland, and ideas of all the places that claimed to host the fingerbones of Christ (there are many), they narrowed the field down to 3 abbeys.  The party’s current plan is to hit those three abbeys, find the fingerbones of Christ, try to cure various conditions, and then go to Greenland and face down “King” Albion.Not bad for something pulled out of the air, anyhow.</blockquote>

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