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==Scribe Notes==
==Scribe Notes==
Blah blah blah
I finally got a chance to go on an adventure again. This one was announced by a person, named
Marvin, who was dressed like a jester - minus bells - who wanted some mercenaries to guard a
local Baron, Lord Argant, who was going to become a Duke. To do this, he had to travel to the
capital city to have an audience with the King. The trouble was, someone was trying to kill him
and he was running out of bodyguards. He was going to be travelling with an entourage of seven
people, including his wife, her maid, his scribe, and the last surviving bodyguard.
When I turned up in the meeting room I discovered the following present:
Imelio De Juran - Military Scientist and Mind mage. Claimed to be an unlanded Baron. An elf
Bonnie McWee Lass - Female elf Binder who was being followed by a golem.
Michael - Celestial mage merchant prince
Hamish - Human male wiccan accompanied by a spider monkey
Mira - Female human earth mage
Rowan - another female elven binder
Ben - a warrior with axe and bow.
And me, Aurora, female elf, beginning air mage, archer, and Seagate Times reporter.
Bonnie was ‘volunteered’ as party leader, Imelio was the obvious military scientist, and I was
the obvious scribe. After the meeting, I chipped in 100sp for Mira’s lesser enchantment and she
cast two week lessers on us all. Mine doubled.
3 rd Frost ‘03
After some preparation we finally went through the portal, an archway filled with a black void.
We emerged in an underground room with a ladder going up. Unknown pictograms were on the
wall. We climbed up into a back alley which was a dead end alley located in the town of
Partridge. Marvin checked the date and discovered that it had taken us two days to go through
the portal. Apparently the transit time is very irregular. For some reason, it was decided we
would check out a tavern. We later found out that this town was called Partridge located in the
land known only as The Empire.
In the tavern, we were listening to rumours. I heard that the old Duke either died by an evil mage
or by slipping in the bath. The latter was more believable. A couple of men turned up and tried
to interest us in a dice game. While that was going on, someone tried to grab Imelio’s pouch.
Michael and Imelio gave chase and eventually caught him. It transpired that he was a novice
thief and was going to get into trouble from the Guild for interfering in someone else’s mark.
Finally we headed up to the manor house.
4 th Frost
We headed out to the marketplace to purchase some horses. I nearly got my fingers bitten off.
Finally, after some negotiation, we got some horses. The idea was to ride off to the Baron’s
summer house where he currently was. It took us the whole day to get there.
The house was three levels, plus an attic, with a skylight in the roof. All the windows were small.
We were accommodated on the third floor with the baron and his entourage on the second. So
we sealed the skylight and made new one way transparent windows so we could keep a discrete
watch. Also, specially programmed Bound Speeches were placed on the top of each set of stairs.
Thank goodness we had two Binders.
Watches were set up, in such a way that there was someone who could see in the dark on each
watch. Basically it was four watches with a pair on. It was Imelio/Ben, Bonnie/Hamish,
Aurora/Mira, Rowan/Michael
5 th Frost
During the last watch, one of the Bound Speeches went off and the person who triggered it fell
back down the stairs. Michael went unseen to sneak around and, on the ground floor, bumped
into someone who was also unseen. He tried to sap the unknown assailant but failed. Meanwhile
the rest of us were woken up. Hamish and I were assigned to guard the lord’s door.
Imelio detected three extra minds and the others went down to deal to them. Meanwhile Michael
was shot at by two massive poisoned crossbow bolts and went down with a shattered pelvis. He
was charged, just as the others charged down. Seeing them, the three assassins decided to bolt.
One went through the door, the other two through windows. The rest of the team went for the
one fleeing through the door and brought him down quickly, Bonnie getting in some good hits.
Meanwhile Imelio attempted to Control Person and everything went dark.
.2.
The list of loot was:
One set of soft leather (rank 4 +1 protection)
One morningstar (rank 4 +1 SC)
One crossbow (rank 4 +1 SC)
One normal round shield
Assorted normal crossbow bolts - some poisoned
One unconscious assassin
Someone recognised the assassin as one of the suspicious characters seen at the marketplace.
Meanwhile Michael was trying to get Bonnie to make him a mechanical pelvis so he could walk.
We were ready to go at 8am. Michael cast coruscades all around. Fortunately it was an
uneventful day and we arrived back in town. Michael and Imelio headed back to the Guild to get
fixed while the rest of us continued on. They were going to get Wings and Locates and rejoin
us on the road.
7 th Frost
They finally caught up to us early that morning. The assassin had been kept tied up and
unconscious for the duration. Hamish tried hypnotising the assassin then torturing him for
information. When that proved futile, they found a crossroads, killed him by hanging then buried
the body. I think they intended to come back for it later. Mira and I decided not to watch the
proceedings.
I was going to fly point but managed to get a severe migraine. Mira Daed me for duration of last
magic to impact and received the answer - indefinite. So I was hypnotised by Imelio to ignore
the pain. However, for some reason, I was being very agreeable today and even spent most of
the night helping the maids with their chores. As a consequence I was very tired and irritable
when the hypnotism wore off.
8 th Frost
During the day we saw wolf prints belonging to three animals. However, given the spacing, they
had to be pony sized. However, I didn’t see much of the day. For some reason I had the desire
to sleep on top of the carriage.
13 th Frost
Finally we reached the capital city of the local dukedom, called Petrenco. I had memories of
Imelio being very brave and heroic as we fought off assassins but I also don’t remember any
fights. Probably because of all those hypnotisms. We were taken to the lord’s guesthouse for the
night. We also found someone who would remove my curse but he wanted extra ‘favours’. I’d
rather have the headache. So Michael convinced him to do the job overnight for 1800sp and no
funny business.
14 th Frost
Headed off. On the way I topped up my silver arrow collection from Bonnie’s large supply - in
case we were dealing with werewolves. About midmorning we ran into an ambush - a volley of
crossbow fire and three very large wolves. All the horses panicked. Bonne and I were trying to
shoot the onrushing wolves while Hamish bravely charged forward. Unfortunately the next
volley of crossbow bolts felled him. Rowan popped up walls between us and the shooters while
Michael charged forward to help deal with the wolves. With Mira’s help he was laying into them
while Imelio got the lord’s horse drawn carriage under control.
One of the giant wolves had attacked Hamish’s horse, killed it, and succeeded in dragging it
away.
“I think I’m scared of them now” - Michael
The other wolves were dispatched and immediately shrank to normal size as the animal growth
spell went off. The crossbow men had already fled by the time we got to their position.
.3.
Michael went Unseen and poked around behind the walls. However, no crossbowmen were
found as they had fled. So we carried on.
That evening we arrived at a small village, just as it started to rain. We spent the night in an in,
inside an open plan common room. Michael used a Wall of Light to remove the insects from us
and the mattresses. The golems were placed on the rafters, alarms were set up and other
precautions taken. The only thing that happened all night was a touch of rowdiness in the bar at
midnight.
15 th Frost
Mira renewed the Lessers on those who needed them before we set off. Michael also provided
Coruscades all around. It was a miserable damp day for travelling and I could see it wasn’t going
to get any better for a while. Imelio was riding on top off the carriage and fell off once.
For some reason a betting pool started to see how long Lord Argant would last, everyone
chipping in 10sp into the pot. The bets were (in order: Marvin - 3 days, Hamish - 4 & a half,
Michael - 7, Imelio - 8, Me - 10 (was feeling rather pessimistic at the time), Bonnie- 14, Mira -
16, Ben - 21, Rowan - 26, and the local bodyguard - indefinitely.
The day passed without incident and by evening, we reached a village in the borderlands of the
local Dukedom.
18 th Frost
Last three days more of the same - no action, wet and miserable. That afternoon we rode into
Gamlin. Lord Argant wanted to visit the local Baron and we were given the night off Many of
the party decided to have a night on the town but some of us stayed with the Baron. Big mistake.
19 th Frost
We were escorted out of town by a bunch of grim faced guards and Lord Argant was not very
happy. I had no memory of what had happened but, apparently someone in the party had
managed to over indulge and say something rather insulting to the local Baron’s wife. I also had
the horrible feeling that it was my fault. Sigh! No more drinking for me - can’t handle it.
22 nd Frost
We reached the next major tow, Lenbeck, where the local Duke lived. It was decided to spend
a few days here so that Lord Argant could talk to the local Duke to sort out certain ‘issues’ in
order to prevent a ‘diplomatic incident’.
23 rd Frost
Still staying here. Lord Argant insisted that we take some actions about these assassins, in no
uncertain terms, so Michael went to talk to someone. That night, we had set up all the usual
precautions and he told us not to worry if any of the alarms went off unless it was someone
heading for our principle.
Sure enough, one of the alarms did go off and we went on alert. Michael and I went to
investigate and he told me to discretely check out a vase by the window. I did so, handing him
a folded piece of paper without anyone seeing. It turned out to be a map to where the assassins
were. We also discovered later, that someone had robbed the treasury. Not our problem.
===24th Frost===

Revision as of 04:05, 20 February 2026

Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Escorting A Lord
GM: Bernard
Level: Level

Party
Time on adventure
65 days 1st Frost 803 to 5th Ice *03
Employer
Marvin - Lord Argant’s advisor and jester
Mission
To protect Lord Argant from assassins as he journeyed to see the King about a dukedom
Places visited
The Empire
Partridge
Petrenco
Gamlin
Lewbech
Cryde
Biltadox
Ashe
People met
Lord Argant
Lord Argant’s bodyguard
Lord Argant’s scribe
The local King

Alexandre - an Earth mage assassin

Original Scribe Notes
Media:Snwi0301.zip

Scribe Notes

I finally got a chance to go on an adventure again. This one was announced by a person, named Marvin, who was dressed like a jester - minus bells - who wanted some mercenaries to guard a local Baron, Lord Argant, who was going to become a Duke. To do this, he had to travel to the capital city to have an audience with the King. The trouble was, someone was trying to kill him and he was running out of bodyguards. He was going to be travelling with an entourage of seven people, including his wife, her maid, his scribe, and the last surviving bodyguard. When I turned up in the meeting room I discovered the following present: Imelio De Juran - Military Scientist and Mind mage. Claimed to be an unlanded Baron. An elf Bonnie McWee Lass - Female elf Binder who was being followed by a golem. Michael - Celestial mage merchant prince Hamish - Human male wiccan accompanied by a spider monkey Mira - Female human earth mage Rowan - another female elven binder Ben - a warrior with axe and bow. And me, Aurora, female elf, beginning air mage, archer, and Seagate Times reporter. Bonnie was ‘volunteered’ as party leader, Imelio was the obvious military scientist, and I was the obvious scribe. After the meeting, I chipped in 100sp for Mira’s lesser enchantment and she cast two week lessers on us all. Mine doubled. 3 rd Frost ‘03 After some preparation we finally went through the portal, an archway filled with a black void. We emerged in an underground room with a ladder going up. Unknown pictograms were on the wall. We climbed up into a back alley which was a dead end alley located in the town of Partridge. Marvin checked the date and discovered that it had taken us two days to go through the portal. Apparently the transit time is very irregular. For some reason, it was decided we would check out a tavern. We later found out that this town was called Partridge located in the land known only as The Empire. In the tavern, we were listening to rumours. I heard that the old Duke either died by an evil mage or by slipping in the bath. The latter was more believable. A couple of men turned up and tried to interest us in a dice game. While that was going on, someone tried to grab Imelio’s pouch. Michael and Imelio gave chase and eventually caught him. It transpired that he was a novice thief and was going to get into trouble from the Guild for interfering in someone else’s mark. Finally we headed up to the manor house. 4 th Frost We headed out to the marketplace to purchase some horses. I nearly got my fingers bitten off. Finally, after some negotiation, we got some horses. The idea was to ride off to the Baron’s summer house where he currently was. It took us the whole day to get there. The house was three levels, plus an attic, with a skylight in the roof. All the windows were small. We were accommodated on the third floor with the baron and his entourage on the second. So we sealed the skylight and made new one way transparent windows so we could keep a discrete watch. Also, specially programmed Bound Speeches were placed on the top of each set of stairs. Thank goodness we had two Binders. Watches were set up, in such a way that there was someone who could see in the dark on each watch. Basically it was four watches with a pair on. It was Imelio/Ben, Bonnie/Hamish, Aurora/Mira, Rowan/Michael 5 th Frost During the last watch, one of the Bound Speeches went off and the person who triggered it fell back down the stairs. Michael went unseen to sneak around and, on the ground floor, bumped into someone who was also unseen. He tried to sap the unknown assailant but failed. Meanwhile the rest of us were woken up. Hamish and I were assigned to guard the lord’s door. Imelio detected three extra minds and the others went down to deal to them. Meanwhile Michael was shot at by two massive poisoned crossbow bolts and went down with a shattered pelvis. He was charged, just as the others charged down. Seeing them, the three assassins decided to bolt. One went through the door, the other two through windows. The rest of the team went for the one fleeing through the door and brought him down quickly, Bonnie getting in some good hits. Meanwhile Imelio attempted to Control Person and everything went dark. .2. The list of loot was: One set of soft leather (rank 4 +1 protection) One morningstar (rank 4 +1 SC) One crossbow (rank 4 +1 SC) One normal round shield Assorted normal crossbow bolts - some poisoned One unconscious assassin Someone recognised the assassin as one of the suspicious characters seen at the marketplace. Meanwhile Michael was trying to get Bonnie to make him a mechanical pelvis so he could walk. We were ready to go at 8am. Michael cast coruscades all around. Fortunately it was an uneventful day and we arrived back in town. Michael and Imelio headed back to the Guild to get fixed while the rest of us continued on. They were going to get Wings and Locates and rejoin us on the road. 7 th Frost They finally caught up to us early that morning. The assassin had been kept tied up and unconscious for the duration. Hamish tried hypnotising the assassin then torturing him for information. When that proved futile, they found a crossroads, killed him by hanging then buried the body. I think they intended to come back for it later. Mira and I decided not to watch the proceedings. I was going to fly point but managed to get a severe migraine. Mira Daed me for duration of last magic to impact and received the answer - indefinite. So I was hypnotised by Imelio to ignore the pain. However, for some reason, I was being very agreeable today and even spent most of the night helping the maids with their chores. As a consequence I was very tired and irritable when the hypnotism wore off. 8 th Frost During the day we saw wolf prints belonging to three animals. However, given the spacing, they had to be pony sized. However, I didn’t see much of the day. For some reason I had the desire to sleep on top of the carriage. 13 th Frost Finally we reached the capital city of the local dukedom, called Petrenco. I had memories of Imelio being very brave and heroic as we fought off assassins but I also don’t remember any fights. Probably because of all those hypnotisms. We were taken to the lord’s guesthouse for the night. We also found someone who would remove my curse but he wanted extra ‘favours’. I’d rather have the headache. So Michael convinced him to do the job overnight for 1800sp and no funny business. 14 th Frost Headed off. On the way I topped up my silver arrow collection from Bonnie’s large supply - in case we were dealing with werewolves. About midmorning we ran into an ambush - a volley of crossbow fire and three very large wolves. All the horses panicked. Bonne and I were trying to shoot the onrushing wolves while Hamish bravely charged forward. Unfortunately the next volley of crossbow bolts felled him. Rowan popped up walls between us and the shooters while Michael charged forward to help deal with the wolves. With Mira’s help he was laying into them while Imelio got the lord’s horse drawn carriage under control. One of the giant wolves had attacked Hamish’s horse, killed it, and succeeded in dragging it away. “I think I’m scared of them now” - Michael The other wolves were dispatched and immediately shrank to normal size as the animal growth spell went off. The crossbow men had already fled by the time we got to their position. .3. Michael went Unseen and poked around behind the walls. However, no crossbowmen were found as they had fled. So we carried on. That evening we arrived at a small village, just as it started to rain. We spent the night in an in, inside an open plan common room. Michael used a Wall of Light to remove the insects from us and the mattresses. The golems were placed on the rafters, alarms were set up and other precautions taken. The only thing that happened all night was a touch of rowdiness in the bar at midnight. 15 th Frost Mira renewed the Lessers on those who needed them before we set off. Michael also provided Coruscades all around. It was a miserable damp day for travelling and I could see it wasn’t going to get any better for a while. Imelio was riding on top off the carriage and fell off once. For some reason a betting pool started to see how long Lord Argant would last, everyone chipping in 10sp into the pot. The bets were (in order: Marvin - 3 days, Hamish - 4 & a half, Michael - 7, Imelio - 8, Me - 10 (was feeling rather pessimistic at the time), Bonnie- 14, Mira - 16, Ben - 21, Rowan - 26, and the local bodyguard - indefinitely. The day passed without incident and by evening, we reached a village in the borderlands of the local Dukedom. 18 th Frost Last three days more of the same - no action, wet and miserable. That afternoon we rode into Gamlin. Lord Argant wanted to visit the local Baron and we were given the night off Many of the party decided to have a night on the town but some of us stayed with the Baron. Big mistake. 19 th Frost We were escorted out of town by a bunch of grim faced guards and Lord Argant was not very happy. I had no memory of what had happened but, apparently someone in the party had managed to over indulge and say something rather insulting to the local Baron’s wife. I also had the horrible feeling that it was my fault. Sigh! No more drinking for me - can’t handle it. 22 nd Frost We reached the next major tow, Lenbeck, where the local Duke lived. It was decided to spend a few days here so that Lord Argant could talk to the local Duke to sort out certain ‘issues’ in order to prevent a ‘diplomatic incident’. 23 rd Frost Still staying here. Lord Argant insisted that we take some actions about these assassins, in no uncertain terms, so Michael went to talk to someone. That night, we had set up all the usual precautions and he told us not to worry if any of the alarms went off unless it was someone heading for our principle. Sure enough, one of the alarms did go off and we went on alert. Michael and I went to investigate and he told me to discretely check out a vase by the window. I did so, handing him a folded piece of paper without anyone seeing. It turned out to be a map to where the assassins were. We also discovered later, that someone had robbed the treasury. Not our problem.

24th Frost

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