Cat Rampant
06-25-2012, 12:22 PM
Whew what an eventful session. It is still Anarchy, in the long & for us very eventful year 499. Wessex Saxons are raiding the south of Salisbury, except for my PK Sir Aedgar's home of Falt where our intrepid PKs defeated a scouting party while hunting (and getting seriously banged up because damn, leathers don't do much). We hadn't paid them tribute for two years but had allied ourselves with Essex.
After much ado our marshall gets most of the muster together, as well as a party of Saxons from our Essex allies, we take out one of the raiding parties and then came upon the ruins of a manor the other raiding party had just left. The knight (my vassal!) and his wife and several children under 10 were all dead, their bodies impaled on pikes. Of course we wanted revenge. Two badly wounded PKs were sent back to Sarum with the murdered family's remains. Our marshall Sir Perrin (who has a Hate Saxons of 15) had been seething the whole time while having to play nice with the Essex contingent. Must have been too much for him....
He decides to counter-raid and leads the combined force into Wessex. We burn a few Saxon farms then arrive at a manor, which is populated by Saxons but held by a Briton who has sworn fealty to the invader. We enter his hall and he greets us. Note that he is just wearing his nice fancy tunic but no armor whatsoever. Sir Perrin chews him out for collaborating with the invader and then suddenly stabs him to death right there in the man's hall. He then has his squires light torches and forces them to light the manor house -- full of the dead man's family -- on fire and punches his youngest squire when the lad refuses to do this. Shocked by this, some of the Salisbury knights start leaving and Sir Aedgar kicks in the door and eventually leads the cowering women out after Sir Perrin promises not to harm them (and once Sir Aedgar realizes this works better when he puts his sword away). So we take the three ladies back to Salisbury as captives, and the session ended with everyone wondering how the heck things will go at court....
While confronting Sir Perrin at Sir Collaborateur's manor, Sir Aedgar noted that his marshall was still suffering from his wounds from the skirmishes with the raiders (he was at like 12 hp or so) and that they may be festering and giving him some fever that was affecting his mind. These two have been to hell and back, more or less, and are the only PKs to have made it through St. Alban's (there's another who went mad, whereabouts unknown). I'm trying to figure how to balance between my loyalty to my friend and marshall, my honor, my loyalty to Countess Ellen and my admittedly flawed human decency. Sir Aedgar is an arrogant, boastful pagan lech but anything happening to women (who he swore to serve after an umm unfortunate incident with Ygraine years ago) and children (two young sons died just before said incident) really get to him.
Man I love Pendragon...! Though this session was turning more into Game of Thrones...hey that's the anarchy for you.
After much ado our marshall gets most of the muster together, as well as a party of Saxons from our Essex allies, we take out one of the raiding parties and then came upon the ruins of a manor the other raiding party had just left. The knight (my vassal!) and his wife and several children under 10 were all dead, their bodies impaled on pikes. Of course we wanted revenge. Two badly wounded PKs were sent back to Sarum with the murdered family's remains. Our marshall Sir Perrin (who has a Hate Saxons of 15) had been seething the whole time while having to play nice with the Essex contingent. Must have been too much for him....
He decides to counter-raid and leads the combined force into Wessex. We burn a few Saxon farms then arrive at a manor, which is populated by Saxons but held by a Briton who has sworn fealty to the invader. We enter his hall and he greets us. Note that he is just wearing his nice fancy tunic but no armor whatsoever. Sir Perrin chews him out for collaborating with the invader and then suddenly stabs him to death right there in the man's hall. He then has his squires light torches and forces them to light the manor house -- full of the dead man's family -- on fire and punches his youngest squire when the lad refuses to do this. Shocked by this, some of the Salisbury knights start leaving and Sir Aedgar kicks in the door and eventually leads the cowering women out after Sir Perrin promises not to harm them (and once Sir Aedgar realizes this works better when he puts his sword away). So we take the three ladies back to Salisbury as captives, and the session ended with everyone wondering how the heck things will go at court....
While confronting Sir Perrin at Sir Collaborateur's manor, Sir Aedgar noted that his marshall was still suffering from his wounds from the skirmishes with the raiders (he was at like 12 hp or so) and that they may be festering and giving him some fever that was affecting his mind. These two have been to hell and back, more or less, and are the only PKs to have made it through St. Alban's (there's another who went mad, whereabouts unknown). I'm trying to figure how to balance between my loyalty to my friend and marshall, my honor, my loyalty to Countess Ellen and my admittedly flawed human decency. Sir Aedgar is an arrogant, boastful pagan lech but anything happening to women (who he swore to serve after an umm unfortunate incident with Ygraine years ago) and children (two young sons died just before said incident) really get to him.
Man I love Pendragon...! Though this session was turning more into Game of Thrones...hey that's the anarchy for you.