We really hope that you all had a great holiday and just want to remind everyone that we are once again back in business on Thursday night. Ingrid will be preparing a fine feast consisting of loaves of meat with flavored potatoes and corn that has been cooked in cream. As we celebrate the greatest day of the year. Elvis' birthday :-)
Just so we are all on the same page, a couple notes on where we left off our journey...
Duke Rohnar arrives with grave news. His other daughter, Aurri, has been kidnapped by Glamredhel in the Southern Shores city of Cree. The attack was swift and sudden and the Duke rode down the King's road to find his daughter and dispatch the kidnappers.
After attempting to save his daughter, Aurri, Duke Rohnar rode north to his original target, King's Town, where he expected to find his oldest daughter, Ameriguet, after she had been kidnapped and subsequently saved. All was not as expected, however, as Ameriguet was taken the night before the Duke arrived.
That next morning was something akin to complete chaos… The Duke approached and confronted the Mayor about what had happened the night before with members of (what everyone thought were) the city guard and how the attack on Ami had once again been carried out.
The Mayor and Captain Josef reveal that they thought the attackers were 'dirty' city guards and Josef had asked his brother, (the visiting mercenary captain Maximillian) to take his troops to the north gate. The Mayor would watch the Western gate with his personal guard. The Duke, realizing immediately what had happened, determined that the mercenary group was the actual kidnappers and rode his small army to the North gate, where he was met by Maximillian and a large scale battle ensued.
While confined to the Mayor's home (where the kidnapping had occurred) the group discussed the situation with Captain Josef and determined that they needed to try and go find Ami themselves. They headed out the West gate of King's Town and intercepted a dozen of the mercenaries along a small, rutty road in the middle of some corn fields to the north west of the City. The group confronted and defeated the mercenaries, slaughtering them all, with Captain Josef's help. The late arrival of Gareth, who was chasing more mercenaries (that had kidnapped some of the city's children) concluded the evening.
After the week's story had played out, I had offered a single-week XP bonus for anyone who was able to get me a couple things before this week's game:
An 'official' story for your character
An 'official' image to go up on the gallery of all the characters
Extra XP could be awarded to anyone interested in writing creative stories about, 'what could happen next' in this story line, regardless if I used it or not.
I look forward to seeing everyone Thursday!