Session 46

Date: 8/23/2015

Attending: Jake, Aaron, Dave, Justin, Joey

Absent: None

Start Time: 6:45 pm

End Time: 9:00 pm

XP awarded: 5,000

Game time elapsed:  16 days

Enemies Defeated:  20 town guards, 1 Chovalian Priest

Notes:

Boarding the Northern Gull, captained by Booth, the Knights sailed out of the Isles of Mist and towards the Chovalian Empire. On the 11 the day they were stopped ½ mile outside of the Chovalian harbor town South Port by a ship blockade. It was clear that they were going to be boarded. Fyn hid, Frumious and Feydor went below deck and hid. Bajol drew his cloak around his armor and stayed on deck. A Chovalian officer and 15 guards boarded the Northern Gull and inspected the cargo. Captain Booth bribed the officer and the Chovailans turned to leave when the officer spotted Bajol, and asked him why he was in full plate armor on a ship.  Bajol’s answer was elusive, and the Officer asked what the insignia was on his breastplate. Two soldiers moved to pull Bajol’s cloak aside and Bajol made ready to fight (fist fight – no weapon was pulled).  Feydor, watching from a hatch, jumped up on deck to support Bajol. The officer called the soldiers off and they departed the ship.  As soon as they were off flags were waved at the other 4 ships in the blockade and the entire blockade opened fire on the Northern Gull. Ballista punched holes in the hull, most of the crew were slain by arrows sweeping the deck, and flaming pitch set the sail and the deck ablaze.

Using a wand of Water Breathing provided by Grigor, Frumious gave the Knights, Captain Booth, and the 10 remaining sailors the ability to breath underwater, and they rode the remains of the Northern Gull to the bottom of the ocean. They slowly began the long walk to South Port.  Arriving 18 hours later in the dead of the night, the group pulled themselves up on the docks. South Port was apparently under a strict curfew and appeared abandoned except for the occasional patrols. Fyn gave Booth 5,000 gp (out of his personal pocket) to compensate him somewhat for the loss of his boat. The Knights then crept through South Port, stole horses, and fled through a watchman’s door in the wall. They were noticed by archers manning the wall but escaped unharmed and unpursued.

They rode along a paved road heading north until about 10 in the morning. They stopped and got permission from a farmer to sleep in the barn which they did until late afternoon. Through conversation with the farmer they discovered:

*Choval has no currency

*It is a Theocractic Socialist/Communist dictatorship

*The Chovalian Church preaches a caste system, where you are born into a caste and can progress in the next life (I.e. “if I’m good when I die I will be reborn into the Warrior Class or Merchant Class.”)

*the farmer is in the serf caste, and therefore has no name. He is Southport Serf 546C.

*All goods are rationed and managed by a bureaucracy. Everything produced goes into the system, and your needs are issued by the system.

*Other nations are considered not free, because they have no Empire to take care of them or be a part of

*He was originally a baker, but the Empire had enough bakers and needed farmers, so he was assigned to South Port Farm 546.

The party rides out that afternoon and rides through the night. The next day in late morning they arrive at Grand Market where they are stopped at the gate by 4 guards. The guards question the Knights, and let them know that they must obtain permits for their armor, weapons, and horses. The knights respond by slaying the guards and riding into town. They confront another group of guards at the doors of the Church, and burst into the sanctuary to slay the priest. They priest is slain but not before he sends out a message spell and tells the party that Sevarius will be coming. They kill the remaining guards, intimidate permits out of the permit office, and ride out of town with the priest’s body. They rest in another barn, and Frumious speaks with dead on the priest. They learn that there is a messenger bird system and that if Sevarius is in Choval (the capitol city) he will arrive in 2 days or so. The knights wait in the barn and keep a watch on the road, when they see riders in armor heading towards Grand Market. They ride out behind these rides, who notice and turn around. It is Sevarius with 16 heavily armed troops. The Chovalians approach slowly to talk and Bajol charges instead of talking. End Session