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# YMiaT - 1000 AD

Session 1 - 17/04/2021
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It's May 1st and we have been travelling together for a year.
Matei signs up for some jousting, and in the third round he faces "Sir Peter Goldeneye". He has a gold eye, and a gold and blue shield with silver cross on it.
Goldeneye hits Matei in the first charge, and they miss the next two hits. Eventually Matei comes back and wins.
Sir Peter introduces himself and says he was fairly impressed. He apparently knows someone if Matei is looking for employment.
A cloth badge in green and blue with a golden tree in the middle is handed over. **Take it to the Thirsty Priest and show it to the innkeeper.**
Next round is another Dwarf, all in black. He isn't wearing chain, he is wearing head to toe plate, including plate gauntlets.
In the middle of the next charge, Matei is tossed from his horse and feet away. **The dwarf has symbols of a red battleaxe.**

Lucian Octavian is petting his falcon as he walks around.
Antillar Cadius finds a half-elf with a big coin-purse hanging from his belt and watches him for any pickpockets.
A small boy starts to stalk the man. As the boy gets close, the Half-elf spins around, catches the boy's hand, and then shoos him away.
The belt is readjusted and the Half-elf continues on.
A man with a loot is playing a tune while walking down the street as we pass, lots of coins in his purse as he passes.
Once crippled, the beggar gets up and goes for the pouch, only to get smacked by the lute.

Antillar continues following the man. He rounds the corner, and the man is gone. He looks up, finding nothing but a bird.
Turning around there is the man, and Antillar says "good trick" and explains he was watching for pickpockets.
Antillar is offered some work, another bit of cloth is given, the same explanation that Matei is given is given as well.
Olivia hunts around looking for flowers and decides to go to the university grounds. Florin tags along
There is a little girl picking flowers here as well, and she looks about 9 as she waves. Olivia waves back, and has made a babbling friend.
This girl was making a flower chain for her sister. **Eventually she finds out the girl's name is Anne-Marie Comprare with a sister named Marguerite who works at an Inn in the town as a Maid.** Her parents are dead.
She takes this girl to grub down, but she doesn't want meat on a stick, but eats a couple of sticky-buns.
Florin is very confused and leaves to find Matei and let him know she may have been kidnapped as she said nothing to him.
They eventually find Marguerite while everyone is yelling in the bar.
The keep treats her like a Noble based on her robes, offering stabling, banquets, rooms for servants, etc.
Clearly they want to upcharge her but she doesn't notice. 3gp a room, 1sp for her servants each. 5sp for a stable and feed.

Eventually Florin gets back to Matei and says Olivia has been kidnapped by a child.
The party heads to the Thirsty Priest Inn as they may find some info there.
When they arrive, they find Olivia. Lucian asks what happened, and she seems confused and says there will be wine.
The largest banquet room has been booked, but the smaller can have 2 chairs added.
**A huge Half-orc squeezes onto a stool next to Lucian and asks if "all of the arrangements have been made".**
He has scars on his face, and a badge on his shoulder of the Green and Blue with a Golden Tree. He appears to be wearing someone's colours.
Antillar notices this badge, matching his cloth, and so does Matei. Antillar asks him what master he serves, and the man doesn't seem to kindly.
After an introduction, he says it's his own business, then he notices the badge, and takes it off.
As Antillar asks the barkeep about the cloth, he says he must be there for the backroom meeting, and pulls him off to it.
Antillar brings Lucian. **"Mr. Harper"** will be along shortly, and they will be eating roasted boar and champagne.
The rest of the party is called in as well.

Eventually **Will Harper**, a young Half-elf with the same badge. This appears to be the same man with the coin purse from earlier.
He asks for discretion from this meeting.
In comes his lord, a figure in Blue and Green fine clothing. He is **Lord Borgne**, a teenage Half-elf.
He gives Matei some praise for his performance and says the **Knight of Eichstätt** is a legend and it is no shame.
**This task requires discretion and skill, and they will pay 300gp each now and 300gp each after and loot is ours. No words to his enemies.**
His Widowed mother won't mary a German. That is the enemy. He needs his inheritance in 5 months and the German wants to use trickery to get the upper hand.
**He is the Count of Verdune and a Vassal of the Duke of Lower Loraine.**
The party goes to his village and rids it of the mercenaries or get proof they came from this German.
The village is named **"Borgne"**. He doesn't want his enemies to know he hired mercs.
The attackers are Kobolds that raid at night.
This cloth that was given should not be disabled but we are under Borgne

Olivia gives stolen food to Anne-Marie, who tries to feed it to Florin's Fox, Stejar, who doesn't eat it.
The party beds down for the night and then moves out, heading toward Borgne.
An Inn is reached and the party stays there. Olivia gets a room, and the rest stay in the common areas.
The Inkeeper is named "Jacque" and there is a teenager assiting him. There is a well-made shortsword mounted to the wall.
Lucian asks about the blade and it belongs to Jacque. He used to adventure and take on odd jobs, hunting monsters and treasure.
His friends had a kid, they adventured and then the friends died. He retired and is raising one of their daughters.
Sitting down, Olivia starts to scribe a new scroll.
Lucian starts to shadow-spar, so Matei joins him to spar instead.

Hooves can be heard and there is a Knight, dusty from the road. Wearing the arms of a Golden Flame on a Blue Field.
He introduces himself as **"Sir Guy Trintignant"**. He is impressed by the combat and asked for a test of skill.
Matei is Wary about combat without wooden arms. The Knight says "a fight to first blood".
They choose the sword over the lance and on foot as that is Lucian's Specialty.

Sir Guy charges immediately as they start and challenges Lucian. Hitting him immediately and drops his sword.
The Knight offers a vial and Lucian has some wounds cured.
Matei is called in to Lance fight the Knight instead.
They keep missing eachother until Sir Guy eventually hits and the combat is ended.
The Knight eats and moves on.

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EXP: 80

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The party sleeps and uses the next day to travel. Another rest stop is reached uneventfully and the next day they read **Reims**.
Reims is left the next day and a Werewolf is spotted in it's Hybrid Form.
Olivia is oblivious as the creature arms itself with a sword. It is wearing chainmail.
Florin moves up and tries to shoot the beast with a light crossbow, but it doesn't hit.
Skmirmishing continues and a Olivia Magic Missle manages to land.
Matei takes a massive blade straight through his torso, and Florin runs up as close as he can, but can do nothing more than try to distract the Wolf-Man with some sparkles.
Florin charges up and throws some Acid after Olivia Dazes the Werewolf. Lucian follows it up with a good slash.
Antillar drops, and is brought back up with a health potion.
A Sleep scroll is used by Olivia but the Werewolf is stubborn and refuses to nap.
The Werewolf grins and goes to bite Antillar, but misses completely.
A lob of acid by Florin and a stab from his "Brother" Matei, and the Werewolf falls.
Antillar hacks his head off and looks inside.

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Loot:
- Medium Chainmail
- Medium Longsword
- Purse of coins and rough gems
- 2 x Platinum Penny (10gp??)
- 2pp
- Potion of Reduce Person
- Potion of Eagle Splendor
- Scroll of some Abjuration Spell (Unidentified, Shield Other)

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The party hits Borgne and a sentry is seen and asks who comes. Lucian explains they are looking for a safe place after killing a Werewolf.
A Guard is called, **Sir Edward Le Cor**, the protector of this place. He is missing half of his left foot and has a modified stirrup for it.
As they head to the Village Priest (Father Andre) for healing, Lucian shows the badge to Sir Edward. He is confused and says they will go to the lady after the church.
There is a hut being repaired from the recent raids.

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EXP: 120

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Session 2 - 01/05/2021 (Cold Start and Vertego Join)
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The label across the coat of arms shows this is the first born heir (Lord Borgne).
Sir Edward asks about the party. A half-elf woman walks out, in green and blue colours. This appears to be Lord Borgne's mother.
Will harper and the half-orc join as well, but Sir Edward scorns.
Harper is set to find out housing and we are boarded among the villagers.
Matei for Goldeneye, Thorin to Harper, Lucian to the keep, Olivia stays with "Grandmother Mary", and Antillar gets a hut.
The next morning two people we have never met and one guy that doesn't speak our language join together at the keep after breakfast.
Only Will Harper seems to be smiling, but Lady Borgne says she will accept our assistance as we are here and already half-paid.
Borgne has 2 Mounted Knights, 2 Men at Arms, 13 trained soldiers. The watchtowers are not finished and they are not staffed enoughed to be manned.
Only Sir Peter can see well at night and they hide their trail by day.
Father Andre visits to help heal the still wounded party and give them each one potion of Cure Light Wounds.
One of the new people, a woman, passes her potion to Antillar instead.
Lucian seems confused looking at them and Jason Borgne.
Will Harper seems to translate for the one man, and it's in Greek notes 3 of the party.
Harper speaks fluent Gaelic and introduces Iseabail to the party, then in Greek he introduces Barbaros.
Octavian asks what the newcomers bring to the table.
Iseabail seems not to understand the question.
Antillar pulls out a sac with a werewolf head and gives it to Sir Edward.
Sir Edward thinks they are coming from up the heavily wooded valley following the stream.
Octavian asks if Olivia has anything arcane to scout the way. She sends her Thrush to look and report back.

As the party starts to head out on Horseback and Iseabail is putting on bone jewelry and face paint.
They travel and end up setting to camp for the night.
Most of the party and an angry Boar spot eachother. As the boar readies to charge Matei beats it to the attack, charging at the Boar instead but he misses.
The board attacks Matei's horse as Florin tries to shoot it with a crossbow, missing as he is not used to mounted combat.
Olivia fires a magic missile at the hog, hurting it some.
Matei nearly kills the thing, but it still tries to gore his horse. He manages to turn the horse and avoid the tusks though.
Florin reloads as Olivia moves up. Lucian continues to just watch, but moves closer and tells Matei to "Hurry Up".
The violent boar finally falls to Matei's Boar.
As the boar is cleaned and it's organs put into a stew, the party makes camp. Iseabail does the butchering and cooking in her Iron Pot.

The party camps with rotating watches. At the end of the night, with Lucian on watch, a Badger shows up, followed by 4 friends.
Olivia, Matei, and Florin are awaken by badgers biting their bedrolls.
Antillar wakes up seeing people waving swords and Barbaros hears the commotion.
Stejar tries to pounce on a badger, biting and clawing at it.
Matei gets up, grabs his sword, and swings on the Badger attacking Florin.
Olivia gets up, gets bit at, then steps back and casts sleep on herself and the nearest 2 badgers, managing to stay awake herself.
Antillar kills a badger, freeing Florin.
Florin and Stejar both attack at a badger, barely scraping it with tooth and dagger.
The casters go for a nap and the rest watch.

They all eat Boar in the morning and ready to move.
**Barbaros Kocak performs "quiet contemplation" while facing a certain direction**
There are Kobolds, wearing black clothing and paint, in the trees to the North-East.
Olivia starts blastic Magic Missiles as Iseabail and Antillar mount up.
Antillar deftly leaps to his saddle and barrels off towards the Black Kobolds.
Lucian runs in and Barbaros fires off an arrow nearly killing one of the Kobolds with an arrow to the gut.
Florin manages to also hop into his saddle easily and charges up with Stejar, behind a tree.
The shot Kobold, drinks a potion and looks a bit better.
Matei beckons his horse and gets into the saddle, then heads towards the fight.
After listening to them scream a bit, Olivia recognizes that they speak Draconic. She then puts one to sleep to try to chat with it later.
Iseabail hexes a Kobold with Bouda's Eye and Antillar charges forward, stabbing the Kobold through his mouth, killing it.
Lucian clefts a Kobold in Twain, coating the Kobold buddy in blood.
Suddenly another arrow looses, flying through the eye socket of the Kobold that drank the potion, finishing him off.
The awake Kobold runs, but Matei runs it down.
Matei rejoins the party, with a Kobold stuck on his lance.

One Kobold is left sleeping, the others dead as Antillar takes the left hand from each.
With some rope, Matei restrains the sleeping Kobold.
It appears the tracks lead upstream but we lose them.
3 hours pass as Olivia prepares herself to understand the language of these things.
Eventually Olivia intimidates the Kobold, who pisses itself a bit.
It explains they are up the stream and live in a cave. It says there is about 30-40 Kobolds, 20-25 of which are able to fight.
**They are the "Black Squad", and he works for "Shurkrak the Cromatic One"**.

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Loot:

- 4 x Potion of Cure Light Wounds (CL 1)
- 15 x Small Blue Shiny Rocks
- 110 Silver Denier (2sp each)
- 5 x Short Spears (Small)
- 5 x Slings (Small)
- 50 x Stones
- 4 x Leather Armour (Small)
- 1 x Sudded Leather Armour (Small)
- 1 x Flask of Viscious Bleeder (Next attack with weapon deals +1 Bleed damage for 1 round).

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Eventually the Kobold cave is found, and they are up a ledge. They spot the party.
The party dismounts at the stream and approaches with weapons sheathed.
A second entrance, covered by brush is apparent to Matei and Antillar. Antillar points it out to Octavian and the party.
Antillar decides to go that way, and Iseabail is elected to go with to stop Antillar from killing babies like the sick freak he is.
As Antillar pushes the bush, he trips an alarm of bells attached to a string and starts to move in, seeing 3 inside with his Ioun Stone Torch.
Octavian is unable to climb the slope and falls back.
There are Blue dressed and painted Kobolds at the top and they are drawing and coming to attack.
Stejar easily jumps up the ledge, and Florin follows.
There are Green painted Kobolds inside attacking Antillar and Iseabail as well as a Dire Rat that is dispatched quickly.
Barbaros fires some arrows in the Kobolds out front and one drinks a potion.
Florin continues to work his way up with Stejar following. He fires a single bolt, and misses.
Olivia and Octavian head to the side entrance to back up Antillar and Iseabail as they can hear the combat.
Matei tries to get Florin to hop on his horse as he goes, but Florin isn't able to grab him so he just stops for him to hop up and continues moving.
More Kobolds fall in the tunnel.

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EXP (for previous encounters): 314

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