Chapter 6: Where Rivers Meet

General Summary

Between Adventures

Edgard rolls the event Inclement Weather, causing the weather to turn for the worse causing all social skills to suffer a -10 penalty and food prices to increase by 20%.
Johnny rolls the event Bolt from the Blue, which has no real effect as he has no mount.
Vixen rolls the event The Exciseman Cometh, a tax collector sweeps through Grissenwald, which causing everyone in the area to lose 30% of their wealth.
Edgard, Vixen and Johnny set out on a few weeks of down-time while Erika heals her wounds. In order to pass the time the group begins work with the Grissenwald Watch, doing patrols for essentially room and board. Edgard begins training as a Watchmen, using the Change Career Endeavour to switch for free and also uses the Income Endeavour.
Johnny finds Elara in her Sanctum one night by following a trail of Ghyran, the wind of the Lore of Life in to the forest a few miles. Elara agrees to train Johnny as a Hedge Wizard in exchange for a favour to be redeemed in the future. Johnny uses the Change Career Endeavour, to facilitate becoming a Hedge Wizard for free and the Banking Endeavour to maintain his money.
Vixen uses Change Career to advance to the next level of her Career, Bawd, for free and the Banking Endeavour to maintain her wealth.

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In their down-time Edgard, Vixen and Johnny head in to Grissenwald, they first visit the Temple of Myrmidia. Johnny gives the Silver Amulet of the Cult of Myrmidia to Elira Valdezaros after subtley hinting that he would like a reward in exchange for the gift. Luckily Johnny rolls well on his charm roll and no offence is taken, the group now has a favour they can redeem with Cult of Myrmidia. Johnny received 150xp, Edgard and Vixen received 50xp for returning the Amulet without overtly asking for money.
The group then head to the Shrine of Shallya, hoping to find a way to relieve the two Corruption that both Vixen and Edgard are afflicted by. After some discussion with the head nun of the shrine, Sister Agathe, Edgard charms his way in to being told of a Blessed Sister by the name of Anya, and that she has just begun to manifest Blessings of Shallya. Edgard charms so well that Sister Agathe agrees to take him to see Anya, and then Anya embraces Edgard, rolling a Critical Success in the process, which heals one point of Corruption.
Before leaving Edgard gives a donation of 10 brass coins, which is most of his wealth, in gratitude for the healing. He attempts to have Vixen healed as well, but Anya senses the questions and shouts across the Shrine that she is not yet ready to receive the cleansing.

Back to the Adventure

The group begin their adventure again by heading off on patrol for the Grissenwald Watch. The patrol goes around the town and up over the Ferry to the northern Watch Tower. The group notice nothing out of the ordinary on the approach, but upon arriving Johnny quickly ascertains that something is wrong. Klaus has a black eye and Johnny uses his Intution to spot that he is also giving signals that something is wrong with the other guards.
The group know that there is a special knock that must be performed to indicate to the other guards in the tower that it is a member of the Watch that approaches. Edgard offers the sack of supplies to one of the other guards by the name of Ruprecht in an attempt to catch him out. Ruprecht falls for the ruse and simply opens the door with no preamble, further indicating that something is wrong. Also Johnny notices there is no light in the guard tower windows and that there is sizable chip out of the grey stone of the tower wall.
Vixen gathers that something is wrong and usesher Charm to distract the other suspicious guard, Ewald.
Johnny tells Klaus to run back to town and summon the guard, which he does without question. Although the group know that it is going to be at least 20-30 minutes before he is able to do this due to the distance back to Grissenwald.
Vixen keeps Ewald distracted.
The group hear some muffled commotion as Ruprecht enters the Watchtower. Edgard springs the counter-trap and pulls the Watchtower door shut, he then uses his axe to bar the door.
As combat begins, Edgard sprints up behind the distacted Ewald and lunges at him with his knife. At the last moment Ewald turns but takes a nasty wound to his arm. Vixen attempts to bring Ewald down, now that Edgard has him distracted but she fails.
Johnny begins to summon his newly acquired magical abilities, he holds a Dart spell ready for when the door is eventually broken.
After a few rounds the door is smashed open. The brigand leader, Wulfram, two other human brigands, Ruprecht and Konrad, and a dwarf named Durin burst out of the Watch tower. Vixen finally dispatches Ewald and Johnny releases his Overcast Dart which hits Wulfram and Konrad for minor damage.
Edgard moves to form a wall between Wulfram, wielding his bastard sword, and Durin who charge forward. Ruprecht stands nervously back while Konrad begins firing at the party.
Edgard uses two advantage to dart out of combat, he then retrieves his axe from the smashed remanants of the door. In the mean time, Johnny uses four advantage to take a double action and puts an arrow through each of Wulfram's arms, which incapacitates him.
Vixen fires at Konrad doing significant damage, in return Konrad misses with return fire from his bow. Johnny also fires at Konrad, which causes him to bleed out via an arrow to the knee.
Ruprecht, seeing his leader dispatched quite easily turns and flees not to be seen again.
Vixen tries deperately to convince Durin, the final remaining member of the Brigands, to surrender. After a failed attempt the group surround Durin and bring him down, but not before Vixen critically fails her Charm attempt, which causes Durin to fly in to a Frenzy which sees Edgard taking a few wounds and Vixen taking a five wound blow to the head.
Looting to follow.

Report Date

13 Sep 2024