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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Kendrik" data-source="post: 1184" data-attributes="member: 123">Well here is the next instalment in the life and times of Sir Kendrik and his chums.When we left last week our heroes were on the way out of Clyster heading for Igham with our brave Knight intent on bringing these brigands to justice. We rode past the copse of trees where we were ambushed and the Ranger Jon, looking for the tree he had blazed a mark on when we were hear last.On finding that we headed on to Igham going to the inn we stayed at last time. Seeing the Constable at the bar, Sir Kendrik walked over to the Constable and said he would like to have a word with him. They move over to a table to discuss the brigands, the innkeeper eavesdropping on what was being said. The party and the Constable discussed in depth what had happened before and he informed the party of the previous attempts to capture the brigands by himself and the local militia. They had tried 3 times but had been thwarted by traps that the brigands had set. He also claimed that they were lucky to escape with their lives. It seemed that only caravans/individuals heading for Clyster and not Evil Baron Montombre’s lands were being attacked by these brigands.We then head off to the Master Harper’s house to seek his opinions and advice on the situation. To set up this let me add a bit of background here. The Master Harper (a bardic lawman class), Keenan Callaghan, is Sir Kendrik’s maternal grandfather. They hadn’t seen each other for 3 years as Kendrik’s father and his grandfather had a huge disagreement over who would look after the two youngest children when Kendrik’s mother was taken and killed by a marauding horde of hobgoblins 6 years ago. Keenan and his now dead wife Sinead wanted to take care of Kendrik and his sister Betaine. Kendrik’s father Lars refused this request telling them to butt out of he and his families life. A simmering feud between the two men followed coming to a head 3 years ago when Keenan again asked if they could care for the children. Lars insulted Keenan by saying he wouldn’t have his boy (Kendrik) living around the Harper Hall, he wanted his son to grow up a man not a harper. Keenan swore never to return to Axbridge until Lars apologised, he hasn’t.The reunion was hamstring but the need for noble pleasantries and getting on with the job at hand. Sir Kendrik idolises his grandfather. He is the man who instilled the strong sense of law and doing good that makes up the moral code of Sir Kendrik. Kendrik wanted to talk about some personal matters also and arranged to meet his grandpa for dinner at the inn that night. The discussion at the Harper’s house mainly confirmed what the constable had said.Br Arton had arranged to stay at the local church and encountered a nun that resembled the nun from The Blues Brothers!. She was stone-faced and very very serious. The complete opposite to the local deacon a short jovial fellow. Br Arton came to realise why the Nun was not a bundle of laughs, the local priest was very old and very senile. It must be a tough life for her caring for him.At the inn that night Sir Kendrik and his grandpa managed to catch up on their lives and events since their last meeting. Sir Kendrik walked his grandpa home as he wanted to now chat about the personal issues he had. He asked his grandpa what he knew about lady Elanor’s family, in particular her father, Baron Althor. His grandpa said he didn’t know too much but told him that the Baron isn’t seen often and his lands just to the south of Aldred’s, and next to Montombre’s lands were also being attacked by brigands. Kendrik told him that he wants to ask for the hand in marriage of Lady Elanor and he wanted to know wether there was any family secrets in his family he should be made aware of. Kendrik knowing full well that Althor would check out Kendrik’s credentials. Keenan jokingly said that Kendrik’s great uncle was a “cattle botherer” Kendrik didn’t get the joke and his grandpa told him to lighten up and relax. Kendrik told him he is finding the weight of being a noble hard to handle. His grandpa then promises to write up suitable lineage papers for Sir Kendrik. He asked Kendrik that he asked if there were any scandals like Kednrik was expecting one. Kendrik said nothing to that keeping to himself the concern that since he was born it seemed that his father and older brother were cold to him.We rode out of Igham and headed for the copse to try and follow the trail left by pack house to the brigands camp. We followed the trail for a while and left the horses there. Continuing on we became aware that the trail was going around on circles when we returned to the road. Jon the Ranger found the trail continued on the other side of the road and we followed it some more. We eventually stopped when we came up to a thicket of trees with huge spikes sticking out of the trunks and branches. We proceeded through with caution. As Sir Kendrik was telling the party that the packhorse wouldn’t have been able to ride through this thicket with the packs still on a log trap hit Jon. The force of the swinging log slammed him against the thorny trees lining the trail. He was in a bad way with the thorns that oozed a honey like sap making Jon’s skin burn and puff up. Br Arton proceeded to heal him and we stopped for a while. Jon suggested that the Bandits would be unlikely to be hiding in this place and that we should walk around the thicket and pick up the trail on the other side. We didn’t and walked all the way to the point where we entered it. It was getting dark and Sir Kendrik decided that we would be better off returning to Igham return at first light picking up where we left off. Br Arton made a suggestion on the ride back to Igham that we might try set an ambush for the brigands but we didn’t have the right equipment or the manpower to do that successfully.Back a Igham, Jon spoke to the constable and got a map of where the previous attempts to capture the brigands had occurred. Sir Kendrik told the others that we would be checking every lead. The discussion lead to possible involvment of Baron Montombre in this brigandry.End SessionWell this week was a real thinker’s game. We are getting a little frustrated but mainly because we haven’t totally picked up on the clues yet.Any Comments?</blockquote>

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