Lady Tialait
2017-11-19, 05:26 AM
I've been running a game of Pendragon for a couple of months now, and it's been fantastic. I have loved every session thus far and it's inspired me to share. The issue being, we started in 485, and this friday we will be doing 491. My storytelling notes arn't the best so catching this up to our game with half-remembered facts.
The knights:
Sir Aesfild is a fairly large handsome knight, with lust in his heart for every maiden. A clever and quick witted pagan who is just as much a lover as a fighter. His personal banner is that a thorny heart. He is renowned for his ability with a steed. His family and that of the Modest Mouse are close.
Sir Brian is a bow legged, pox marked large man, he has the soul of a poet and a knack for command. His personal banner is the quill and sword crossed. He is a British Christian, but is known for his practical take on things, and has a reputation for being worldly.
Sir Dinaunt is an extremely handsome man with flowing hair and sharp senses. He prides himself on his skills with lance and knowledge of knightly manners. He is a Roman Christian, and a pious one at that. He is also above all else honest. He is prone to calling things of the supernatural demons. His personal banner is a Black Unicorn.
Sir Joef is a massive strong knight, who sees his family and faith as the most important things. His family are an old welsh clan named Griffin. His banner reflects his family name being one as well. He is a superstitious man who is quick to learn much about the supernatural aspects of his world.
Sir (Don't remember) is a small man to be knighted. He carries a bow and quiver not caring for the glory of battle, being modest as he is. He is a Pagan, and fears and respects the supernatural far too much to meddle in such things. His personal banner is that of a mouse gaining the nickname the Modest Mouse. His family and that of the Thorny Heart are close.
485
This is the year a group of four knights gained their knighthoods and found themselves under Lord Roderick of Salisbury. The four knights being Sir Brian, Sir Dinaunt, Sir Joef, and the Modest Mouse.
After some basic training exercises with Sir Elad, Marshal of Sarum the group are asked to take up their lances and joust for leadership of this little group. Sir Dinaunt and Sir Brian are favored as both have practiced long and hard to master the skill, and Sir Brian had Sir Joef had had a joust for mostly entertainment that morning, with Sir Joef being unhorsed. Mind you, none of them were knighted at this time, so technically they were all squires under Sir Elad after their fathers had died.
The joust began, and to everyone's shock the Modest Mouse unhorsed both Dinaunt and Brian. The dice were feeling cruel. Sir Elad had only been half paying attention so when they told him the small guy with the bow won the joust he was shocked, but shrugged it off quickly. He told them they would have to go to the village of Imber and meet with a priest there. There were rumors of a man eating bear abounding and Lord Rodrick couldn't have panicked peasants. So the four set off. They met with the Priest and he provided them with some tracking dogs and showed them a man who was killed by the bear, confirming it was indeed a bear attack. However, with all the travel the four decided not to set off right away, instead taking some hospitality from the Priest in their little village till morning.
Come morning the four set out for the hunt, and Brian and Dinaunt were separated from the others. The Modest Mouse and Joef found a strange barking lizard creature. Before they could attempt to grab it or anything, it ran away. A knight in full regalia rode out of the forest asking them if they had seen it and they pointed the direction it had ran.
Brian and Dinaunt continued their hunt, and Brian ran ahead on the trail of the Bear of Imber finding it after surging forward. He was severely wounded by the bear and unhorsed. Dinaunt arrived to distract the beast just in time for Brian to slay the creature but putting him poorly for the return to Imber with his quarry. He arrived back riding atop the bear in a wagon he had a bear helm crafted from the head and a rug was made for another of the group.
A week later the foursome were brought before Lord Roderick and were knighted into his service, with a feast in their honor, but the tone was fairly somber as the group were to march to war against the South Saxony and the Monstrous King Alle. The group called forth their families and levy and marched under Prince Madoc, who upon it being requested from the injured Sir Brian gave him a command, and allowed the Modest Mouse to stay near the back with a regiment of bowmen peppering the Saxons with arrows. The battle went mostly well, however Sir Dinaunt lost his blade while fighting a Saxon general, who then tripped upon it impaling himself. Sir Joef spotted King Alle himself and charged after him, the pair traded blows and both went down King Alle's bodyguards retried him the battlefield and Sir Joef was left alone. They broke the army of King Alle with some loses and were told to go home and celebrate as the Knights of Silchester would finish this battle and end South Saxony for good.
They went home and a week later they found out that the Silchester knights had failed to purge Britian of the threat. It created a bit of bitterness between them and the Silchester knights.
While all of this happened the Fifth knight was busy with urgent business for his mother. The thorny heart was having a delicate issue. A Roman Praetor had come to stay after he had visited the King of Logres Uther about some assistance in Frankland the Prince had been very rude to the Praetor and he was waiting for an audience. The man was making moves on all the attached and unattached women of the manor. Hiensburow's mother could not tolerate that and asked him to remove the man. The issue was this was a guest from the King, and he had been offered hospitality, the rules would not allow him to simply kick him out. Being a pagan he came up with a plan. He would offend the Christian Praetor's sense of decency, and flirt with him. This critically succeeded. The two became lovers, and the Praetor promised to leave the women of the manor alone if he could have alone time with the squire at least once a month. Aesfild agreed and the two spent hours of the evening together. Then his mother told him he had to go to London to see the King about finally being knighted. Not thinking this strange he rode off right away to Uther's court. Upon getting there he was knighted by Uther to serve him directly.
486
The whole group of five knights were put on garrison duty with patrols around Sarum. There was banter between the five as they rode patrol, but they were mostly bored, when they were stopped by an old man. He begged them help him, as his goat has run off and he did not know where it was. They agreed to take a look around for it, and not long after starting their search they found the goat. It had not just run off but was stolen by a Three-Eyed giant! They fought the giant, and as it fell, the old man appeared nearby applauding their valor, he then transformed into the Magician Merlin. He told them to follow him into the forest, and leave their steeds behind. The pagans did not argue, and neither did Sir Brian, Sir Dinaunt protested but did follow. After some trudging through the forest, Merlin told the knights to wait for him in a clearing while he ducked off into the brush. As they were standing their a Green Creature with the body of a horse and the torso of a man, and swords for arms attacked them. The battle was difficult but the final blow as finally given by Sir Brian. They took his arms as a pair of blades, one to Sir Brian, and the other to Sir Joef. Merlin returned shortly there after and Sir Dinaunt and the Modest Mouse noticed he had a blade with him he didn't have before.
The only other things that happened that year were marriages. Everyone married fairly wealthy women, widows of knights who had died along side their own fathers mostly. The Modest Mouse married the woman with the most glory, an older woman. With her glory added to his after the marriage he became the most glorious knight of the five of them.
487
Uther held court in Sarum this year, and the only knight to not make it was Sir Joef, as he was not available (i'll get to him.). Sir Brian wrote a song in honor of the events of the last year, the slaying of the green creature and the three eyed giant. He had Sir Dinaunt sing it, and the skill of the composition combined with a fair singing voice ran through like angels. This is when Merlin presented the blade to Uther, telling he would have it till he was no longer Just. The Sword of Victory, Excalibur.
Sir Joef on the other had could not come, for he was not over here, but other there. He had been hunting for some game on his own lands, when he found a fey ring. He stepped through it and found a Castle, he though he was on his own lands, but he was not he tried to come up with a plan to get the Fair folk to give him the castle, and tried to find his way back home. He found his way back home after what he though were a few hours, it turned out to be months with the Knights already done with a choice.
Lord Rodrick rewarded them for their good work with a rare and priceless gift, choice. They could either join the King's Fleet and march under the Prince against the Saxons, or join the King's Progress to gain support in the north in the Embassy in Linsey. They chose to march north with the king after much debate. Sir Joef arrived upon this choice. The group of five knights packed up their households and marched with the King up north to meet with northern lords. They arrived in Linsey and Uther had Sir Joef sing the song again, and when he did a tear was in the eye of the Duke and he bent knee to Uther and Excalibur. Sir Brian made an off-hand comment that his pen was mightier then Uther's blade. Uther was fuming but Sir Hienburow thought quickly and punched Sir Brian in the face. Uther was flabbergasted but not wroth. Sir Aesfild said he wished to take Sir Brian's new bride from him, for he had fallen in love. Sir Brian challenged him to a duel, and the Throny Heart agreed, he would duel him in the way of romance. Sir Brian's own wife would decide the contest, the winner would get the wife.
Uther agreed to this contest. Sir Brian's wife was taken by all this, and gave them a contest to retrieve her a flower she had heard about that grew on the banks of a nearby lake. The pair mounted up, Brian on his own steed and Sir Hienburow on his, but he brought the Modest Mouse with him, and Sir Brian could not keep up with Aesfild's masterful horsemenship, falling behind in the race, but he figured he would win if he could get the flower first, and dived into the lake to swim towards the flower he spotted. The Thorny Heart sitting upon his horse. The Modest Mouse was already in the water however, and ended up retrieving the flower before Sir Brian. Again, his horsemenship won out and he arrived before Sir Brian who was planning on taking the flower from the Thorny Heart, by force. They arrived back in Linsey and Hienburow had already won, Uther had agreed that the Thorny Heart could take Sir Brian's wife as his second wife. Hienburow refused, as no dowry was offered for her hand, and told Sir Brian if he would marry her without gain, he could have her. Sir Brian remarried his wife that winter.
Uther then told them to ride to the nearby Eburcum and get the so-called Centurion King to come see him and his blade so he could also bend the knee. They rode and when they got there the Centurion King's stewart told them he was not available, as he was off destroying Saxons at the coast. They decided to ride out to request he come see Uther upon the morning. The next day they rode off to find the Centurion King in his command tent and his army locked in battle with Saxons. They made their request and he agreed to come, once he had free time, perhaps in a few years. He suggested that if Uther saw this as urgent he could come see him.
They brought information back to Uther, and he was not happy about it. The Modest Mouse and Sir Dinaunt came up with a plan, they would spend the winter in Eburcum and convince the Centurion King to come to Linsey come spring thaw. Sir Dinaunt even offered his knighthood to Uther should they fail, and Uther agreed. The Modest Mouse acquired a large supply as to not harm Eburcum with their full levy stationed their all winter and come spring the Centurion King had agreed, but Uther had left before Spring thaw...
488
The Centurion King swore never to listen to Logres Knights again and rode back home, Lord Rodrick told the knights that the King was preparing his armies to head to Frankland for the Praetor that half of the knights would be going and half staying to protect their lands from Saxon raids. After much discussion, Sir Dinaunt, Sir Aesfild, and the Modest Mouse were sent to Frankland, and Sir Joef and Sir Brian were sent to patrol their own lands.
In Frankland all is not well, Prince Madoc was overheard speaking to his assembled Lords they would stay for two weeks or one city, whatever comes first. This infuriates Sir Dinaunt who sees this as a direct ignoring of Uther's words, Sir Aesfild agrees with the Black Unicorn, and the pair confront Prince Madoc, who handwaves their accusations of Treason as they could not understand the workings of Lords as they are mere knights. The pair go back to the Modest Mouse who overheard the exchange, and they came up with the best worst plan ever though up. They decided to take a city in the middle of the night with a little over a dozen men. That very night, and see if they can get a full blown rebellion against the Prince to assist the Praetor in taking Frankland for Rome. They do indeed take the city, however the effect of it was less then ideal. The majority of the Knights there were from Silchester, and the group had often time ridiculed them, so they sided with Prince Madoc out of spite to them, and most out of loyalty. Prince Madoc was taking the ships home, any who stayed would be left in Frankland till they could find their own way home. The Knights agreed to come back with Prince Madoc. They however had not had their fill of war.
With Sir Brian, and Sir Joef something else had happened. They had garrison duty, at least offically. Uther had grabbed the most trusted knights from Lord Rodrick, and those who had helped the Excalibur qualified, they would go to help him gain an alliance in Somerset, and the agreement is that he would send a pair of knights to deal with some Water Leapers, strange frog-like creatures, and they would stay neutral till Uther had gained the title of High King. Sir Brian went to hunt the Water Leapers, and Sir Joef went to hunt a fairy ring. Sir Brian fought and died to the beasts, and Sir Joef offered his first born son to a Fey for a bag of dead water leapers to offer the King of Somerset.
Sir Joef realized that Sir Brian was taking far too long in the forest, and decided to go look for him. He found him and his squire and his horses, and hounds all dead. He decided to break out something he had found in Ebucurm, his father was a necromancer, he had his book of evil magic. He used a spell from it to bring Sir Brian back from the dead, but only for two years. The bag of dead water leapers were given to the King Somerset and the pair rode off back home
489
King Uther gathered all the Kings he could muster, he was time to deal with something that had been bothering him for some time. One of his vassels had been rebellious. The Duke of Cornwall, and so the massive army was sent to make him submit. Excalibur was flashed the song sung, and the knee bend. Leaving the knights feeling as though things were going far too smoothly.
The five found out that to the north Ebucurm was again under attack by Saxons and the siege had been locked down. So, they took their levys and rode out, all five of them. No orders from lord or king. Some craved glory, some simply felt they were due a great battle. With their three hundred men. They found only a thousand siege Ebucurm, the rest of the ten thousand were marching to Linsey to take it. Sir Brian and the Modest Mouse gained entrance into Ebucurm to gain the assistance of the Centurion King, Sir Brian leading two hundred of the men they had gathered with his tactical mind, and the Modest Mouse sneaking in while the armies clashed.
The larger force was still an issue and Sir Dinaunt came up with an idea, he opened the gates and had the Griffin Clan men have a very loud party. To make it seem as though their forces were large and unafraid of Saxons, to at least delay them. Sir Joef took his second born son, and make a sacrifice to the pagan Gods, getting a promise that that large Saxon force would lose their next engagement. Sir Aesfild lost his patience with a plan that was to simply wait and grabbed fifty men all mounted to engage the eight thousand. A moment a madness, indeed. However, as he arrived a massive flock of ravens appeared around the army pecking at their eyes. Sir Aesfild crashed upon them causing their army to rout and trample upon itself. Scattering it to the winds. Linsey and Ebucurm were safe for now, but the Northern Saxons were still and issue, but perhaps this would buy some good will from the Centurion King..
490
The next year, King Uther decided the Northern Saxons have been around far too long, and it is time to crush them. He gathers the largest army that Brition has seen sense Romans had brought one and marched them north. A glorious battle was had, and the Saxon kings were captured. At the end of the battle Sir Brian died what seemed a natural death.
The knights were asked if they wished to march with the King to seek submission of the Pictish Kings or if they wished to continue attacking the Saxons to raid them for all the harm they had done, but the Knights decided that with their Kings in Uther's custody the Saxons would be unorganized and akin to going after bandits. They would rather march with Uther to seek the king of the Scots. They rode with to a mostly uneventful time. With victory under their belt they marched back home, and Uther had them in London for Christmas as he could attribute much of his success to their work, and wished to give them gifts this year. They met the Duke of Cornwall's wife this winter, and half of them fell in love, the other half had nothing but lustful thoughts about her. The lustful ones are joined by Uther himself. Sir Joef assisted the Cornish escape from London right before a mysterious blizzard hit upon their exit.
Sir Dinaunt and Sir Aesfild spoke to Lord Rodrick about Sir Joef, wanting to put him on trial, but Sir Joef and his Griffin Clan have been useful in the War efforts, he promised them he would put him on trial AFTER Uther had secured his vassel's loyalty, with his second attack on Cornwall, this time for leaving London after being told to stay.
And that is what has happened thus far, we play on Fridays, and I can continue to update on Saturdays if you guys want to know where this goes. Sir Brian's player is getting his replacement ready, who will be a temp character till the Son of Sir Brian comes of age. There are honorifics running about in the group due to events. Almost like nicknames.
Sir Dinaut is known as Sir Dinaunt the Cursed, as he has married three times, and three times he has fallen in love with his wife just for her to die in childbirth.
Sir Brian was known as Sir Brian Bearsbane, as he struck the final blow on the Bear of Imber, and two Saxon's heroes with known as 'The Bear'
Sir Aesfild is known as the Master of Horse, as he does have that title from Uther, after proving how well he could ride and how well he knew horses, he keeps Uther's stables.
Sir (Don't remember) has been known as the Modest Mouse so much, I forgot his name. He calls his family "The House of Mouse"
Sir Joef is known as Sir Joff or Joffery because he's evil.
Graveyard:
Sir Brian, Died to Sir Joef's Necromancy in 490
The Modest Mouse, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Fredrick, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Aesfild, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Joef, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
The knights:
Sir Aesfild is a fairly large handsome knight, with lust in his heart for every maiden. A clever and quick witted pagan who is just as much a lover as a fighter. His personal banner is that a thorny heart. He is renowned for his ability with a steed. His family and that of the Modest Mouse are close.
Sir Brian is a bow legged, pox marked large man, he has the soul of a poet and a knack for command. His personal banner is the quill and sword crossed. He is a British Christian, but is known for his practical take on things, and has a reputation for being worldly.
Sir Dinaunt is an extremely handsome man with flowing hair and sharp senses. He prides himself on his skills with lance and knowledge of knightly manners. He is a Roman Christian, and a pious one at that. He is also above all else honest. He is prone to calling things of the supernatural demons. His personal banner is a Black Unicorn.
Sir Joef is a massive strong knight, who sees his family and faith as the most important things. His family are an old welsh clan named Griffin. His banner reflects his family name being one as well. He is a superstitious man who is quick to learn much about the supernatural aspects of his world.
Sir (Don't remember) is a small man to be knighted. He carries a bow and quiver not caring for the glory of battle, being modest as he is. He is a Pagan, and fears and respects the supernatural far too much to meddle in such things. His personal banner is that of a mouse gaining the nickname the Modest Mouse. His family and that of the Thorny Heart are close.
485
This is the year a group of four knights gained their knighthoods and found themselves under Lord Roderick of Salisbury. The four knights being Sir Brian, Sir Dinaunt, Sir Joef, and the Modest Mouse.
After some basic training exercises with Sir Elad, Marshal of Sarum the group are asked to take up their lances and joust for leadership of this little group. Sir Dinaunt and Sir Brian are favored as both have practiced long and hard to master the skill, and Sir Brian had Sir Joef had had a joust for mostly entertainment that morning, with Sir Joef being unhorsed. Mind you, none of them were knighted at this time, so technically they were all squires under Sir Elad after their fathers had died.
The joust began, and to everyone's shock the Modest Mouse unhorsed both Dinaunt and Brian. The dice were feeling cruel. Sir Elad had only been half paying attention so when they told him the small guy with the bow won the joust he was shocked, but shrugged it off quickly. He told them they would have to go to the village of Imber and meet with a priest there. There were rumors of a man eating bear abounding and Lord Rodrick couldn't have panicked peasants. So the four set off. They met with the Priest and he provided them with some tracking dogs and showed them a man who was killed by the bear, confirming it was indeed a bear attack. However, with all the travel the four decided not to set off right away, instead taking some hospitality from the Priest in their little village till morning.
Come morning the four set out for the hunt, and Brian and Dinaunt were separated from the others. The Modest Mouse and Joef found a strange barking lizard creature. Before they could attempt to grab it or anything, it ran away. A knight in full regalia rode out of the forest asking them if they had seen it and they pointed the direction it had ran.
Brian and Dinaunt continued their hunt, and Brian ran ahead on the trail of the Bear of Imber finding it after surging forward. He was severely wounded by the bear and unhorsed. Dinaunt arrived to distract the beast just in time for Brian to slay the creature but putting him poorly for the return to Imber with his quarry. He arrived back riding atop the bear in a wagon he had a bear helm crafted from the head and a rug was made for another of the group.
A week later the foursome were brought before Lord Roderick and were knighted into his service, with a feast in their honor, but the tone was fairly somber as the group were to march to war against the South Saxony and the Monstrous King Alle. The group called forth their families and levy and marched under Prince Madoc, who upon it being requested from the injured Sir Brian gave him a command, and allowed the Modest Mouse to stay near the back with a regiment of bowmen peppering the Saxons with arrows. The battle went mostly well, however Sir Dinaunt lost his blade while fighting a Saxon general, who then tripped upon it impaling himself. Sir Joef spotted King Alle himself and charged after him, the pair traded blows and both went down King Alle's bodyguards retried him the battlefield and Sir Joef was left alone. They broke the army of King Alle with some loses and were told to go home and celebrate as the Knights of Silchester would finish this battle and end South Saxony for good.
They went home and a week later they found out that the Silchester knights had failed to purge Britian of the threat. It created a bit of bitterness between them and the Silchester knights.
While all of this happened the Fifth knight was busy with urgent business for his mother. The thorny heart was having a delicate issue. A Roman Praetor had come to stay after he had visited the King of Logres Uther about some assistance in Frankland the Prince had been very rude to the Praetor and he was waiting for an audience. The man was making moves on all the attached and unattached women of the manor. Hiensburow's mother could not tolerate that and asked him to remove the man. The issue was this was a guest from the King, and he had been offered hospitality, the rules would not allow him to simply kick him out. Being a pagan he came up with a plan. He would offend the Christian Praetor's sense of decency, and flirt with him. This critically succeeded. The two became lovers, and the Praetor promised to leave the women of the manor alone if he could have alone time with the squire at least once a month. Aesfild agreed and the two spent hours of the evening together. Then his mother told him he had to go to London to see the King about finally being knighted. Not thinking this strange he rode off right away to Uther's court. Upon getting there he was knighted by Uther to serve him directly.
486
The whole group of five knights were put on garrison duty with patrols around Sarum. There was banter between the five as they rode patrol, but they were mostly bored, when they were stopped by an old man. He begged them help him, as his goat has run off and he did not know where it was. They agreed to take a look around for it, and not long after starting their search they found the goat. It had not just run off but was stolen by a Three-Eyed giant! They fought the giant, and as it fell, the old man appeared nearby applauding their valor, he then transformed into the Magician Merlin. He told them to follow him into the forest, and leave their steeds behind. The pagans did not argue, and neither did Sir Brian, Sir Dinaunt protested but did follow. After some trudging through the forest, Merlin told the knights to wait for him in a clearing while he ducked off into the brush. As they were standing their a Green Creature with the body of a horse and the torso of a man, and swords for arms attacked them. The battle was difficult but the final blow as finally given by Sir Brian. They took his arms as a pair of blades, one to Sir Brian, and the other to Sir Joef. Merlin returned shortly there after and Sir Dinaunt and the Modest Mouse noticed he had a blade with him he didn't have before.
The only other things that happened that year were marriages. Everyone married fairly wealthy women, widows of knights who had died along side their own fathers mostly. The Modest Mouse married the woman with the most glory, an older woman. With her glory added to his after the marriage he became the most glorious knight of the five of them.
487
Uther held court in Sarum this year, and the only knight to not make it was Sir Joef, as he was not available (i'll get to him.). Sir Brian wrote a song in honor of the events of the last year, the slaying of the green creature and the three eyed giant. He had Sir Dinaunt sing it, and the skill of the composition combined with a fair singing voice ran through like angels. This is when Merlin presented the blade to Uther, telling he would have it till he was no longer Just. The Sword of Victory, Excalibur.
Sir Joef on the other had could not come, for he was not over here, but other there. He had been hunting for some game on his own lands, when he found a fey ring. He stepped through it and found a Castle, he though he was on his own lands, but he was not he tried to come up with a plan to get the Fair folk to give him the castle, and tried to find his way back home. He found his way back home after what he though were a few hours, it turned out to be months with the Knights already done with a choice.
Lord Rodrick rewarded them for their good work with a rare and priceless gift, choice. They could either join the King's Fleet and march under the Prince against the Saxons, or join the King's Progress to gain support in the north in the Embassy in Linsey. They chose to march north with the king after much debate. Sir Joef arrived upon this choice. The group of five knights packed up their households and marched with the King up north to meet with northern lords. They arrived in Linsey and Uther had Sir Joef sing the song again, and when he did a tear was in the eye of the Duke and he bent knee to Uther and Excalibur. Sir Brian made an off-hand comment that his pen was mightier then Uther's blade. Uther was fuming but Sir Hienburow thought quickly and punched Sir Brian in the face. Uther was flabbergasted but not wroth. Sir Aesfild said he wished to take Sir Brian's new bride from him, for he had fallen in love. Sir Brian challenged him to a duel, and the Throny Heart agreed, he would duel him in the way of romance. Sir Brian's own wife would decide the contest, the winner would get the wife.
Uther agreed to this contest. Sir Brian's wife was taken by all this, and gave them a contest to retrieve her a flower she had heard about that grew on the banks of a nearby lake. The pair mounted up, Brian on his own steed and Sir Hienburow on his, but he brought the Modest Mouse with him, and Sir Brian could not keep up with Aesfild's masterful horsemenship, falling behind in the race, but he figured he would win if he could get the flower first, and dived into the lake to swim towards the flower he spotted. The Thorny Heart sitting upon his horse. The Modest Mouse was already in the water however, and ended up retrieving the flower before Sir Brian. Again, his horsemenship won out and he arrived before Sir Brian who was planning on taking the flower from the Thorny Heart, by force. They arrived back in Linsey and Hienburow had already won, Uther had agreed that the Thorny Heart could take Sir Brian's wife as his second wife. Hienburow refused, as no dowry was offered for her hand, and told Sir Brian if he would marry her without gain, he could have her. Sir Brian remarried his wife that winter.
Uther then told them to ride to the nearby Eburcum and get the so-called Centurion King to come see him and his blade so he could also bend the knee. They rode and when they got there the Centurion King's stewart told them he was not available, as he was off destroying Saxons at the coast. They decided to ride out to request he come see Uther upon the morning. The next day they rode off to find the Centurion King in his command tent and his army locked in battle with Saxons. They made their request and he agreed to come, once he had free time, perhaps in a few years. He suggested that if Uther saw this as urgent he could come see him.
They brought information back to Uther, and he was not happy about it. The Modest Mouse and Sir Dinaunt came up with a plan, they would spend the winter in Eburcum and convince the Centurion King to come to Linsey come spring thaw. Sir Dinaunt even offered his knighthood to Uther should they fail, and Uther agreed. The Modest Mouse acquired a large supply as to not harm Eburcum with their full levy stationed their all winter and come spring the Centurion King had agreed, but Uther had left before Spring thaw...
488
The Centurion King swore never to listen to Logres Knights again and rode back home, Lord Rodrick told the knights that the King was preparing his armies to head to Frankland for the Praetor that half of the knights would be going and half staying to protect their lands from Saxon raids. After much discussion, Sir Dinaunt, Sir Aesfild, and the Modest Mouse were sent to Frankland, and Sir Joef and Sir Brian were sent to patrol their own lands.
In Frankland all is not well, Prince Madoc was overheard speaking to his assembled Lords they would stay for two weeks or one city, whatever comes first. This infuriates Sir Dinaunt who sees this as a direct ignoring of Uther's words, Sir Aesfild agrees with the Black Unicorn, and the pair confront Prince Madoc, who handwaves their accusations of Treason as they could not understand the workings of Lords as they are mere knights. The pair go back to the Modest Mouse who overheard the exchange, and they came up with the best worst plan ever though up. They decided to take a city in the middle of the night with a little over a dozen men. That very night, and see if they can get a full blown rebellion against the Prince to assist the Praetor in taking Frankland for Rome. They do indeed take the city, however the effect of it was less then ideal. The majority of the Knights there were from Silchester, and the group had often time ridiculed them, so they sided with Prince Madoc out of spite to them, and most out of loyalty. Prince Madoc was taking the ships home, any who stayed would be left in Frankland till they could find their own way home. The Knights agreed to come back with Prince Madoc. They however had not had their fill of war.
With Sir Brian, and Sir Joef something else had happened. They had garrison duty, at least offically. Uther had grabbed the most trusted knights from Lord Rodrick, and those who had helped the Excalibur qualified, they would go to help him gain an alliance in Somerset, and the agreement is that he would send a pair of knights to deal with some Water Leapers, strange frog-like creatures, and they would stay neutral till Uther had gained the title of High King. Sir Brian went to hunt the Water Leapers, and Sir Joef went to hunt a fairy ring. Sir Brian fought and died to the beasts, and Sir Joef offered his first born son to a Fey for a bag of dead water leapers to offer the King of Somerset.
Sir Joef realized that Sir Brian was taking far too long in the forest, and decided to go look for him. He found him and his squire and his horses, and hounds all dead. He decided to break out something he had found in Ebucurm, his father was a necromancer, he had his book of evil magic. He used a spell from it to bring Sir Brian back from the dead, but only for two years. The bag of dead water leapers were given to the King Somerset and the pair rode off back home
489
King Uther gathered all the Kings he could muster, he was time to deal with something that had been bothering him for some time. One of his vassels had been rebellious. The Duke of Cornwall, and so the massive army was sent to make him submit. Excalibur was flashed the song sung, and the knee bend. Leaving the knights feeling as though things were going far too smoothly.
The five found out that to the north Ebucurm was again under attack by Saxons and the siege had been locked down. So, they took their levys and rode out, all five of them. No orders from lord or king. Some craved glory, some simply felt they were due a great battle. With their three hundred men. They found only a thousand siege Ebucurm, the rest of the ten thousand were marching to Linsey to take it. Sir Brian and the Modest Mouse gained entrance into Ebucurm to gain the assistance of the Centurion King, Sir Brian leading two hundred of the men they had gathered with his tactical mind, and the Modest Mouse sneaking in while the armies clashed.
The larger force was still an issue and Sir Dinaunt came up with an idea, he opened the gates and had the Griffin Clan men have a very loud party. To make it seem as though their forces were large and unafraid of Saxons, to at least delay them. Sir Joef took his second born son, and make a sacrifice to the pagan Gods, getting a promise that that large Saxon force would lose their next engagement. Sir Aesfild lost his patience with a plan that was to simply wait and grabbed fifty men all mounted to engage the eight thousand. A moment a madness, indeed. However, as he arrived a massive flock of ravens appeared around the army pecking at their eyes. Sir Aesfild crashed upon them causing their army to rout and trample upon itself. Scattering it to the winds. Linsey and Ebucurm were safe for now, but the Northern Saxons were still and issue, but perhaps this would buy some good will from the Centurion King..
490
The next year, King Uther decided the Northern Saxons have been around far too long, and it is time to crush them. He gathers the largest army that Brition has seen sense Romans had brought one and marched them north. A glorious battle was had, and the Saxon kings were captured. At the end of the battle Sir Brian died what seemed a natural death.
The knights were asked if they wished to march with the King to seek submission of the Pictish Kings or if they wished to continue attacking the Saxons to raid them for all the harm they had done, but the Knights decided that with their Kings in Uther's custody the Saxons would be unorganized and akin to going after bandits. They would rather march with Uther to seek the king of the Scots. They rode with to a mostly uneventful time. With victory under their belt they marched back home, and Uther had them in London for Christmas as he could attribute much of his success to their work, and wished to give them gifts this year. They met the Duke of Cornwall's wife this winter, and half of them fell in love, the other half had nothing but lustful thoughts about her. The lustful ones are joined by Uther himself. Sir Joef assisted the Cornish escape from London right before a mysterious blizzard hit upon their exit.
Sir Dinaunt and Sir Aesfild spoke to Lord Rodrick about Sir Joef, wanting to put him on trial, but Sir Joef and his Griffin Clan have been useful in the War efforts, he promised them he would put him on trial AFTER Uther had secured his vassel's loyalty, with his second attack on Cornwall, this time for leaving London after being told to stay.
And that is what has happened thus far, we play on Fridays, and I can continue to update on Saturdays if you guys want to know where this goes. Sir Brian's player is getting his replacement ready, who will be a temp character till the Son of Sir Brian comes of age. There are honorifics running about in the group due to events. Almost like nicknames.
Sir Dinaut is known as Sir Dinaunt the Cursed, as he has married three times, and three times he has fallen in love with his wife just for her to die in childbirth.
Sir Brian was known as Sir Brian Bearsbane, as he struck the final blow on the Bear of Imber, and two Saxon's heroes with known as 'The Bear'
Sir Aesfild is known as the Master of Horse, as he does have that title from Uther, after proving how well he could ride and how well he knew horses, he keeps Uther's stables.
Sir (Don't remember) has been known as the Modest Mouse so much, I forgot his name. He calls his family "The House of Mouse"
Sir Joef is known as Sir Joff or Joffery because he's evil.
Graveyard:
Sir Brian, Died to Sir Joef's Necromancy in 490
The Modest Mouse, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Fredrick, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Aesfild, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495
Sir Joef, Died in the Infamous Feast of 495