Here is the latest two updates on Sir Kendrik and co
Well here is the next exciting instalment in the Sir Kendrik/Lady Elanor Saga.
When we left our Hero and his companions they had just slain the son of the Evil Legion God Virakus and defeated the huge animated statue of Virakus. One of the rogues in the party, Callin, had gone to look for the stolen holy relic. Though seriously wounded (1 hp left) in the fight with Caligulus, he went in the sleeping chamber alone. Little did he know that as he investigated the room an imp had popped out of an inkbottle. Before he could react the imp attacked and Callin dropped to the floor. The other rogue in the party, Cain, hearing this alerts the party and as Sir Kendrik and Lady are embracing Sir Kendrik tells his love that it sounds as though Callin needs help and she should stay here and he will be back shortly. Sir Kendrik badly wounded from a deep stomach wound which was bleeding heavily, Br Arton and the Ranger Jon go to his aid and he is healed with no sign of what had attacked him.
While in the other room Br Arton takes Sir Kendrik aside. Br Arton suspects that one of the two maidens we have rescued is Marianna, the witch who helped Caligulus capture Lady Elanor. At first Sir Kendrik doesn’t believe it could be true but Br Arton convinces him to be wary of Anrod the other maiden we have found. Kendrik returns to Lady Elanor and fusses over her. He was imbued with spell like abilities by Br Arton and had one Cure light wounds spell left that he had planned to use on Lady Elanor if the worst had happened or if she was wounded. She refused his healing saying that she was only lightly wounded and Anrod was the one who really needed the healing. Sir Kendrik accepted this and healed Anrod. While this is happening Callin has found a secret door that needed a key to open it.
The two rogues decided to go and investigate a room near the altar. The room was trashed but they found a secret door here too. This time they could open it and found a room full of treasure. They tool some small gems to show the others and we decided to leave the treasure and collect it later. The party decided to head to a bathing room in the temple complex so the ladies could freshen up. Sir Kendrik ever the gentleman guards the entrance to the bath with his back turned
Refreshed we headed for the sleeping quarters we found the last time for the slaves as we intended on resting up before finding a way out. On the way our ranger discovered that there were tracks of skeletons down the passageway that looked like a patrol. As we moved along the passageway we found more tracks down to a prison cell that we had investigated before. The smell from the room was awful and we found somebody in there. Br Arton, Sir Kendrik and Callin went in to help them. It was a pacifist friar that we had liberated from the same very cell the last time we had been there. The sight that assaulted the was truly horrifying. Caligulus had tortured poor Br Quinn terribly. He had ripped out his eyes and tongue and removed his fingers, thus renderinghim useless as a cleric. Br Arton tried to comfort the poor man as Kendrik returned to the rest of the party. Lady Elanor asked what was the matter and where was Br Arton. Kendrik said that the Brother was healing a brother that had been kept in the cell. Elanor asked if she could help him. Kendrik said to her “My Lady it is no sight for a Lady to see” This sets her off and she lets Kendrik know in no uncertain terms that she is a noble woman and she is more than capable of helping Arton, a noble woman is trained to tend to her lord’s wounds and look after the castle when he is away. She made it more than clear to him that he should stop mollycoddling her. Sir Kendrik at first surprised by her outburst, was pleased to see that the Lady that had won his heart was a strong woman, not the mindless giggling girl he sees around the court.
Sir Kendrik decided to take the rest of the party minus the Ladies and the Bard to find the sleeping quarters. We find it and on the way back we have to fight the skeleton patrol. They were quickly dispatched and we head for the quarters. After collecting the others that had remained at the cell we headed for the sleeping quarters.
Once we set up camp there the two rogues were set to investigate a crypt room that next to the sleeping quarters. Surprise Surprise another secret door is found. They open it and investigate it They find a body in the passageway leading down from the door and as they tried to pass it Callin trips on it and releases a cloud of yellow mist from the body, this doesn’t affect Callin but Cain couldn’t breathe and they return to have the problem fixed by Br Arton.
After this occurred the rogues decide that they want to investigate the first secret door Callin found as it may lead to a way out. They leave with Br Arton and Jon the ranger. Sir Kendrik decided to stay to protect the ladies with the bard Halbaen.
The other door lead to what those involved were soon to find out was a Labyrinth that took over an hour and a half of game time for them to find a way out of.
In the mean time the deep wound to Sir Kendrik that had been patched up was weakening him, since he had received the blow he had felt fatigued, yawning regularly. After talking to Lady Elanor his will to stay awake failed and he fell into a deep sleep. Unfortunately the bard didn’t think that this was strange considering Sir Kendrik’s sense of duty and didn’t alert this to Br Arton when the others finally returned.
The next morning Br Arton wakes Sir Kendrik who claims that he was so tired it was if he hadn’t slept. Br Arton asked Sir Kendrik when did this feeling hit him and he said when he was fighting Caligulus. If not for Sir Kendrik’s armour holding his guts in they would have been spilled on the temple floor. Br Arton asked Sir Kendrik to remove his armour, which he did after the ladies left the room. When Kendrik’s abs were exposed they were bloated and red. The wound had healed on the outside but had festered underneath. Br Arton was just about to cast a restoration spell on Sir Kendrik when……….
End of Chapter 3
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As we left Sir Kendrik he was in a lot of pain and fatigued by an abdominal wound that had festered. Br Arton had to heal it twice to fully heal the big guy. After putting his armour back on Sir Kendrik suggested that we collect as much of the booty in the treasury the rogues had found, as The Baron would appreciate the boost to his coffers with a war brewing. The last time the party had stumbled over such a large amount of treasure they had it snatched away from them so Sir Kendrik didn’t want to risk that happening again. Br Arton was very keen to locate the holy mace that we were still to rescue. Br Arton cast a locate object spell which pin pointed the location to past the secret door where the rogues found the dead body.
Against Sir Kendrik’s better judgement he was convinced that the party be split up. One group consisting of Br Arton, the scout/rogue Cain and the ranger Jon to go and locate and return the mace. The other group of Sir Kendrik, the rogue Callin, and the Bard Halbaen with the people we had rescued to go to the treasury and fill the sacks and backpacks with the treasure.
The treasure collection when without incident apart from Lady Elanor refusing to do manual labour. The same could not be said for the other group who headed down the secret passageway. Things were going fine until they came across an inscription that was above a doorway. It read “ the fangs of the snake bite deep” of course Cain read this and was instantly struck by a spectral snake that paralysed him and started to encase him in an amber casing. Unable to dispel the spell on Cain, Br Arton and Jon leave him there to collect him when the mace is found. They continue on finding a bedroom, the bedroom was opulently appointed with a bed table and lounge chair make out for bone and the chair made out of skin of some type the adventurers had never seen before. A spell book sat on the table.
Br Arton and Jon then proceeded to the next room, which was a lab/library, full of books and beakers and tubes. Hanging from the ceiling was a skeleton that looked like it was about to pounce down on them. In the middle of the room surrounded by a black bubble of energy, hovering about the ground was the mace. Before they could react a swarm of bugs attacked them as they stood in the doorway. Fortunately the two PCs jumped back and left the area of this spells effective range, not after taking some damage from the bugs bites.
All of a sudden the Necromancer appeared surrounded by a protective bubble. Br Arton hit him with a searing light spell which didn’t get through the bubble. The Necromancer cast a spell on Br Arton, it was a worm that entered Artons body and worked its way around inside him. Jon hit him with an arrow but then the Necromancer cast a spell that seemed to swap the damage to Jon as the wound Jon had given him disappeared. The Necromancer casted more spells and were doing a lot of hurt to Arton and Jon before Jon grabbed Arton and dragged him back and they ran back to the bedroom where Cain was placed. Unfortunately the Necromancer followed them and they fought some more in the bedroom. When the necromancer started to take some damage himself his familiar, a stirge attacked Arton latching itself to his face. Arton removed it after a struggle and after casting holy smite which hurt the Necromancer and his familiar badly. Necromancer carelessly cast doom with a tap of his staff on the ground, which actually killed his familiar. At this point the harpy that had escaped before appeared. The necromancer then told Arton “try to wield the mace now cleric” and the Necromancer disappeared into a mist under the door. The harpy was then attacked and she flew off when she knew she was losing.
Br Arton and Jon headed back to the lab to try to recover the mace. It was being infused with negative energy by the ball of blackness around it. Arton decided to it is with an energy blast and the good and evil energy battled around the mace before the good energy finally defeated the evil and the mace dropped to the floor. Br Arton fearing the worst cast a detect evil on the mace which went off like a beacon. The Necromancer’s plan to corrupt this holiest of holy relics had succeeded. Arton was fearful of even moving the mace and sent Jon back to inform Sir Kendrik of the bad news.
Back at the treasury as Lady Elanor complained that she shouldn’t be doing manual labour, the Bard said “ Don’t worry about it Kendrik she will be in labour soon enough”. Of course she is deeply offended by this and demands that Sir Kendrik do something about it claiming that Halbaen is a letch. Sir Kendrik demands Halbaen apologise to Lady Elanor, which he doesn’t. She demanded that he be punished. Just as this is happening Jon arrives and tells Sir Kendrik of Cain’s state and the problem with the mace. Sir Kendrik tells Lady Elanor that he will deal with this when we get back to Axbridge and heads to the necromancer’s bedroom. On his arrival at the bedroom Br Arton fills Sir Kendrik in on the problem with the mace and that we shouldn’t move it. Sir Kendrik said we have to take it back to Clyster and have this evil removed from it, offering to risk whatever curse/death by picking it up to place it in a blanket. As we headed to get the mace from the lab, Br Arton peered around the corner to see if it was still there. The necromancer was standing there with the mace and in front of a portal. As Br Arton tells Sir Kendrik of this the Necromancer says, “ I cannot believe I have succeeded in corrupting this mace, your god is weak”. At which point Sir Kendrik appeared Crossbow loaded and fires a bolt straight at his chest. It was difficult for Kendrik to fire it as the Necromancer had cast a spell to stop Sir Kendrik from firing but it failed. Sir Kendrik expected him to drop the mace instead he fell backward into the portal and the portal closed. Sir Kendrik was annoyed that the necromancer had escaped with the mace. We headed back to the slave quarters where the others were waiting. Br Arton went to the temple and cast desecrate at which the temple room started to collapse as Br Arton ran out.
We moved everything to the stone door we came in through and using his last spells of the day Br Arton and he created an opening in the door which we escaped from. He then sealed it up again in the hope that this temple complex would be sealed up permanently. We headed back to where the horses were left. Nearby was a body lying on the ground. Br Arton and Sir Kendrik went up to inspect it. It was the Necromancer’s clothes but it body was totally disfigured with limbs sticking out of the wrong places, it was if the Necromancer lost control of his portal spell and it had minced him up and spat him out this way. The mace was nowhere to be seen. Br Arton feared the worst that the mace had somehow gotten inside the necromancer. He couldn’t feel it through the disgusting mess of the body so we buried him. The ranger looked around for the mace and found harpy feathers and tracks around the area. Resigned the the fact that the mace appears to be lost we rode back
We rode back to Axbridge and arrived at night. We didn’t have enough horses so we had to have some of the rescued people ride pillion. Lady Elanor rode with Sir Kendrik. On our arrival Anrod and Br Quynn were taken to the church to be cleaned up and looked after. Callin went to Anrod’s parents’ house to collect them so they could be reunited with the daughter they had lost a year ago. On Callin’s arrival he heard an argument and knocked on the door. Her father, drunk, refused to believe it, but her mother ran to the church and Callin convinced her father who broke down and cried. Sir Kendrik lead Lady Elanor to the manor house so she could get changed and freshened up. Halbaen and Jon followed them there. Halbaen and Kendrik chatted as they waited and during the chat Kendrik dismissed Halbaen from being his adviser for his remark to Lady Elanor. Sir Kendrik wanted to give Lady Elanor the locket he had worked on for a month for her to wear back to the church but things took a nasty turn when Lady Elanor came down the stairs as Halbaen was leaving he acknowledged Sir Kendrik but ignored Lady Elanor. She demanded another apology which Halbaen refused and walked out the door to head to the inn. Sir Kendrik ordered that he be arrested. Which he was and he was placed in the stocks. Lady Elanor upset returned to her room before he could get a chance to give her the gift.
Sir Kendrik furious at this development heads to the cemetery to tell his dead brother that his killer was now dead also. He bumps into Callin doing the same thing. Kendrik goes into the church to pray for thanks for their deliverance from the temple and for his Lady’s save return. He then checked on Br Quynn and Anrod’s health before heading back to the manor to sleep in the other bedroom. Sir Kendrik had arranged for the booty to be placed in his room. Sir Kendrik has a sleepless night resenting the situation he has now been put in.
At Breakfast the next morning Sir Kendrik tries to give his gift to Lady Elanor. She claims that it was too beautiful a gift to give her and she was not worthy. Kendrik tells her that it pales compared to her and she is more than worthy of it. Unfortunately Sir Kendrik puts his foot in his mouth again and belittles her gift to him, something he didn’t mean to do. She gets curt with him and leaves him to go get ready for morning services. On the way back they have an argument in the street. Sir Kendrik pours his heart out to her, as does Lady Elanor. Sir Kendrik accuses her of calling him a liar for not believing his pleas. They argue for a while longer and she says to him if that is your wish sir and they return to the manor. Sir Kendrik calls for the harper Lucan (a guild that the bards belong to, they act as advocates and advisers to nobles and hear cases) to hear the case against Halbaen. Lucan was Halbaens teacher and sponsored him to the Harper Hall. There is no love lost between the two men as Halbaen threw away his career as a Harper on a whim. The hearing is held and Halbaen shows no remorse, actually showing contempt instead. To make matters worse he tells Lady Elanor to get over it. Lucan asks Lady Elanor to name the punishment. She says she would like Sir Kendrik to do it. Sir Kendrik decides that Halbaens share of any left over booty be given to Lady Elanor. Halbaen being smart asks to be flogged as well. Kendrik knowing that Halbaen is just trying to be smart denies the request stating he was with out remorse. The hearing was then closed and Halbaen leaves Axbridge after collecting his weapons. Sir Kendrik demands he hand over the magical longsword that had been lent him before he goes.
Sir Kendrik asks for his family to join Lady Elanor, his party and himself for dinner in the great hall. During the afternoon Lady Elanor apologises to Sir Kendrik for doubting him. She says she has been courted many times by men wanting her as a prize. Sir Kendrik pleases her no end by saying that he sees her as no prize to be won, that he greatly respects her and honours her for she has truly won her heart. She then asks him to give her the wonderful gift he made for her and they she will wear it with pride. She turns and exposes her neck so he can put it on her. She then kisses him on the cheek and Sir Kendrik takes her hand and kisses it.
Dinner goes without a problem and Sir Kendrik’s sister sings and plays a song she wrote. A song that he is told she is having submitted to the harper Hall for possible inclusion to the list of teaching songs. Sir Kendrik is so proud of this. Everyone retires for the evening. Kendrik is disappointed that none of his family or friends remembered it was his 22nd birthday. It was certainly a day of extremes for Sir Kendrik.
Next morning we rode out.
End Session
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Did Kendrik do the right thing to Halbaen?
