Rousted In Rastenburg At The Rose Court
Summary
Adventure: Rousted In Rastenburg At The Rose Court
GM: Anna
Season: Autumn 803 WK
- Party
- Employer
- Court of the Rose
- Mission
- discover why people have been disappearing from their dungeon
- Original scribe notes
- Media:Snau0201.zip
Scribe Notes
Day1
The party has the following people in it:
- Roderigo – a fearless (ig) noble “moustachioed” halfling of dangerous reputation. An excellent (trainee) e&e mage
- Sauté – a fearsome badly singed elf fire mage who is strangely short.
- Lady Lizette Summers – a gentlewoman adventurer of apparently seamless virtue.
- Sir Sven – a scary armed to the teeth giant-like chaos knight, water mage.
- Sera Angelis – a she elf with a golden breastplate – which tends to catch the eye of those endowed with a y chromosome.
- Sir Dontalon Falouge – a foppish well dressed gentleman adventurer and clever e & e mage, who has a tail & whiskers - meow!
- Saurus – a very large lizardman - who dares to dabble in the dark arts.
Our party has been hired by the Court of the Rose, through their emissary, Ash - a fop, to discover why people have been disappearing from their dungeon. It is the sort of dungeon where people go voluntarily. Sauté has been there before (strictly on guild business) – he drops dark hints, nudges & winks. We conclude it is a high-class brothel. The toffs elect Lady Lizette as party leader (primarily because of who her daddy was.) Roderigo is voted scribe although his literacy skills are still in the developmental stage. The party agrees to meet at the White Swan.
Sir Sven makes strength and healing potions at 200sp a go. Sir Don (apparently a poor fighter takes 10!) Unbelievable! Saurus takes 5! Incredible! The doughty Roderigo needs only 1. Sir Don, the true gent, gives 5healing plus 2 x strength to lady Lizette. Sauté suggests he will eat the soul of water element creatures to make him better at spells. Sir Sven looks on darkly. The party discuss disguising Saurus is plate armour with a cloak. It turns out that he is rather weak & t
The idea is vetoed. He agrees to walk on all fours & pretend to be a pet.
At the White Swan, (Sir Don & Sir Sven with retinues in tow – possibly meaning the rest of us!) All are in full fig engarbed in the best clobber. Ash has hired a private room with a top fireplace. Heaps of grub. Ash plays the lute. On request from Roderigo he plays song about tipsy nuns & sailors. Sauté reveals that someone once tried to kill him here & it is not a nice place. The party drinks with a mixture of caution and abandon – free drinks – yee ha – caution abandoned !! Predictably we have been drugged and we all fall asleep accept Serra Angelis, who immediately bolts the door. She revives us with a neutralise poison spell. Roderigo turns invisible and skulks. Sir Don sends out a wizard eye. We are wedged in but Sven kicks it in. Sven sends out a rainstorm to Saute’s horror. Sven regales a rumour that elfs eat babies. We leg it through the kitchen and all the way back to the guild. Sir Sven, playing the Viking macho man tosses the ill Lady Lizette over his shoulder. Sven also puts Sera over his shoulder and carries both. At the guild we sleep.
Delphinium and Ash are there. We conclude that our mission is not a secret. We decide to travel by water elemental from Seagate to somewhere Sven can make us a boat. Roderigo strongly objects and votes for horse and cart through dangerous lands taking months, but is overruled. HE Has no choice but to get completely trashed and thus avoid the horror. Sven waterproofs everything and casts water breathing we travel by water elemental.
Having fled Seagate via water elemental we settle done & wait while Sven makes a battle barge to take us across the sea.
Day 3 (3rd Fruit)
Peaceful
Day4
Peaceful but rain
Day5
Overcast
Day 6
We pass by a fisherman’s boat
Day 7
Fine
Day8
Rough - we meet mer folk
Day9
Clearing. By evening we reach Freeport. Ash and Lizette discuss Court etiquette.
Sven & Sir Don go to buy 2 mules and a cart. Captain of the Guard hates the Rose Court. We set watches. 1. Sven & Sera 2. Saute & Roderigo 3. Lizette & Saurus 4. Sven & Sir Don
Day 10
Fine day – we depart for Rastenberg. By evening we reach a Tavern. It is fairly full. We order food and take a table by the fire. An angry mob descends towards our tavern. We evacuate and pause to pick up the person inciting them & run north toward Rastenberg, stopping on the road an hours walk from it.
