Heddwyn then makes an error by attempting to immediately broach the subject of the potential marriage, which visibly displeases the king who declares he is done for the day and will accept further petitions at a later date. Afterwards, Heddwyn realizes his mistake and suggests to Adaryn that they make plans to spend some time here in D\u00fan Ailinne\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAct\u00a0<\/span>III<\/span>: A Slice of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Six weeks pass, mostly uneventfully. The weather finally begins to improve, albeit very slowly. Rumors fly across the realm regarding the extended absence of Druid Adaryn and Ollave Heddwyn, but no one knows the exact truth beyond the two men seeking out a bridge for Chief Owain. Adaryn reappears a few times in Bryn Euryn, but only briefly, and is invariably gone again by the next morn.<\/li>\n
- Aed\u00e1n completes his work on the torcs and is suitably satisfied, especially with the third batch of work which he suspects Owain will hand out to the nobility due to the loveliness of the decoration. His suspicions are borne out when the chief expresses his pleasure at the end result. Late in the month, Marcus seeks him out for a surveying of his new lands and there, Aed\u00e1n uncovers a small silver vein that will be very helpful for the fledgling lord.<\/li>\n
- Angus continues digging into the murder of Amlodd ap Brys, but has little success. He does finally catch a lead and spends several days monitoring a suspect.<\/li>\n
- Brad\u00e1n spends much of this time handling the more irritating facets of leadership, but also makes time to spend with Addiena who he continues to court in his own distinct manner; he even goes so far as to enlist his sister\u2019s aid to \u2018toughen up\u2019 Addiena. Finally, as a result of the continuing frustration he\u2019s experienced with impetuous warriors, he turns to Marcus to retrain his warband with something akin to Roman discipline. There is initially some disgruntlement at this, but they persevere and soon, this has positive results.<\/li>\n
- During this time, Gwion finds himself mostly at a loss with what to do and eventually finds himself hanging out with Brad\u00e1n\u2019s warriors who tease him mercilessly for his farmer origins but never seem to do so maliciously and are all consistently impressed with the strength required to use his bow as well as his aim. As a result of Brad\u00e1n\u2019s decision to have Marcus instruct his warriors, this means Gwion also spends a great deal of time on the new lord\u2019s lands.<\/li>\n
- And speaking of Marcus, he is extremely busy in the six weeks since being raised to lordship, in between getting to know his land, his people and beginning the re-training that his brother has requested. The discovery of the untapped silver vein eases much of his initial concern about the lack of wealth upon the land, though he expects some trouble when word gets out regarding this find which causes him to intensify his efforts to recruit warriors. He also has an unfortunate experience with the sole survivor of Lord Brochfael\u2019s warband, a hotheaded warrior named Cadoc ap Glyn who has been branded a coward for fleeing whatever threat killed his brothers in arms; no one believes Cadoc\u2019s claims of a terrible monster and he eventually challenges Marcus, claiming the Roman is not worthy of following. The duel is swift but final, with Cadoc growing increasingly incensed at Marcus\u2019 refusal to draw his weapon, then attacking only to be struck down \u2013 Fragarach, the weapon Marcus obtained in \u00c9ire, once more cleaves through his foe\u2019s shield and into the other man\u2019s chest, killing him almost instantly. Though the men watching cheer this, Marcus stops them and orders them to treat the dead man with honor.<\/li>\n
- Having been defeated in a duel, Meadhbh wastes no time and beds Morgan quite aggressively. Theirs is a tempestuous relationship, filled with passion in both anger and love. At no time does Morgan ever ask about her connection with the wolves, but then, he also accepted Marcus\u2019 return from the dead with barely a shrug. During this time, Meadhbh also continues working to create a school for the martial training of female students and this definitely draws some would-be applicants.<\/li>\n
- In \u00c9ire, Heddwyn spends the six weeks getting a better grasp of the political situation and of the potential talking points he intends to use once the king summons him again. He finds out that the princess in question is evidently the youngest daughter of King Crimthann and has been married thrice already, but each man has died (of his own stupidity) within a day of the wedding. One started a duel with a rival on his wedding feast, another drunkenly attempted a handstand on a galloping horse, and the third thought boar hunting would be a grand idea even though he was thoroughly intoxicated. As a result, many in Laigin believed she has been cursed which explains why none of the king\u2019s nobles are enthusiastic about wedding her. Due to this belief in a \u201ccurse,\u201d Unrest has clearly increased and the princess in question has withdrawn from public view. He also learns of a new warlord gathering strength in the northern kingdom of Midhe under Lugaid mac L\u00f3egairi. This warlord is being referred to as the \u201cWinter Knight\u201d and is said to have many supernatural powers. There are rumors he is closely tied to one of Faerie Queens of the Winter Court, but Heddwyn can find out little more than that.<\/li>\n
- When he is finally summoned to face the king once more \u2013 alone, as Adaryn has briefly returned to Rhos \u2013 he is surprised to discover it is a private meeting, with only the druid and the priest he has learned to be named Padraig attending. Both Heddwyn and the king opt to pretend the Ollave\u2019s disastrous introduction never happened, and they spend many hours discussing the proposal, arguing over trivialities and specifics, but ultimately come to an agreement. This marriage will take place and a military alliance shall be formed. The princess herself is summoned\u2026<\/li>\n
- And when Heddwyn first looks upon\u00a0<\/span>Brigid ingen Crimthann<\/a>, he is\u00a0<\/span>astounded<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>at her similarity to his wife\u2019s dead sister.
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\nGM Notes:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n- Another sort of experimental adventure, with one PC not even in Wales during this. It seemed to work out okay.<\/li>\n
- Intentionally avoided any planned combat again because I wanted to sort of reflect the characters growing in political power as opposed to martial.<\/li>\n
- Amusing note: When I started planning this adventure, I rolled a Reaction check for Owain toward Marcus \u2026 and it was an 18. Given that I\u2019ve made no attempt to hide the fact from the players<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>that Owain\u2019s sexual interests definitely lean toward the homosexual, there have been many jokes about his attention shifting from Brad\u00e1n to Marcus.<\/li>\n
- Panicked note: The players for Angus and Meadhbh were originally going to be out so I\u2019d initially had nothing planned for them, but they were able to join after all. Fortunately, I had time to figure something out \u2013 a lot of that was missed for Angus, but I\u2019m going to recycle it, probably for next week.<\/li>\n
- Some of the Marcus stuff \u2013 silver vein, Cadoc \u2013 transpired after the session as the player was laying out what his character was probably doing in this time (and to explain expenditure of some points for Wealth and the like.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Warband Brad\u00e1n ap Cadell (Ronnke) Meadhbh verch Cadell (Melissa) Marcus and Echo (CommJunkee) Heddwyn ap Idris (Gigermann) Aed\u00e1n ap Dewar (Winston) Simple Angus (Herodian) Gwion ap Enfrys (Andricus) Act I: A Victory Celebration 12 March, 457 Anno Domini Nostri Iesu\u00a0It is early morning, shortly after the Rhos warband watched the Irish ships containing\u00a0Bruinn the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cb_logs","category-casusbelli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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