Connu's warriors - Colme & Decha - were returning when ambushed by Varou. Colme was wounded but Decha got him home & gate shut.
Connu sends Decha on his horse to warn Lady Caelia. Kithayn refuses to go as has sworn to find her mother. Connu accepts without demur (friend). His servants have stripped the Varou corpses and Connu gifts a mail hauberk and fine steel sword to Kithayn - she is flattered
Replace OUTCAST asset with SWORDMASTERRegain war-darts, couple more from Connu. Don mail, tight, but will do
Heal - 10,4 : 3 + 2 iron; WEAK; +2 health (3), -1 momentum (4)
Sojourn - 6,6 : 6 + 1 heart, +1 [bond w. Connu]; STRONG; Recuperate +2 health (5), Provision +2 supply (4), Consort +2 spirit (max 5)
Sojourn match: Action 86 Locate, Theme 15 Secret; Want to do a 'Delve' so Varou have found a lost site.
Per Ironclad asset, Kithayn is 'Geared for War', check Encumbered condition; max momentum 9, reset is now 1Prepared now, Kithayn leaves to find Mother's fate.
Gather Information - from Varou bodies - 5,4 : 6 + 3 wits; STRONG; +2 momentum (6)
Milestone - Iron Vow - Learn Mother's Fate - 2/10As the Varou were following the river - presumably to return home - Kithayn believes she can head north-west from Connu's Wardenhome, rather than west to the river and follow it north. She should find their tracks as she did at yesterday's dawn
Undertake a Journey - Find Varou (troublesome) - 1st segmentStops early to forage and camp<
9,1 : 2 + 3 wits; WEAK; -1 supply (3); progress 3/10
Resupply - 6,5 : 6 + 3 wits; STRONG; +2 supply (5)Refreshed, resumes in morning
Make Camp - 7,1 : 2 + 5 supply; WEAK; Recuperate +1 health (5)
Undertake a Journey - Find Varou (troublesome) - 2nd segmentVarou had strayed from River and seemingly stumbled over the farm. Dran, the farmer, killed trying to protect farm, no sign of Lenne, wife, or their children. Search
6,1 : 5 + 3 wits; STRONG; progress 6/10
Waypoint - oracle - Corrupted Steading
Gather Information - 2,2 : 4 + 3 wits; STRONG; +2 momentum (8)Find children in their bolt-hole; Innach the eldest will take them to next farm. Kithayn solemnly vows to Boddua to find where their mummy has gone ...
Swear Iron Vow - Return Lenne to her children - troublesome 3,1 : 4 + 1 heart; STRONG; +2 momentum (max 9)Starts to follow Varou trail
Undertake a Journey - Find Varou (troublesome) - 3rd segmentFind Varou - there are 2 outside a small cave that has a stream running out of it.
5,5 : 4 + 3 wits; STRONG; progress 9/10
Reach Your Destination - 4,2 : 9 progress; STRONG; +1 momentum (max 9)
Milestone - Iron Vow - Return Lenne to her children - 3/1004 - the cave
Milestone - Iron Vow - Learn Mother's Fate - 3/10
Having found the Varou - 2 of them - Kithayn finds a hide and watches as the tracks had indicated at least 8 or 9 of them ...
Gather Information - 8,1 : 6 + 1sh; WEAK; +1m (max 9)Watches for rest of day and most of night, but no sign of others. As night comes to close, one of the Varou is sleeping by their small fire and Kithayn determines to act ...
Face Danger - 7,5 : 3 + 1sh; MISS, BURN (9 -> 1), STRONG; +1m (2)sneaks up on the Varou unnoticed ...
Secure an Advantage - 6,1 : 6 + 1sh; STRONG; +2m (4)Leaps at the sentry from behind
Enter the Fray - 2 Varou (1 asleep) = dangerous 3,1 : 6 + 1sh; STRONG; +2m (6), +INITStrike - 4,4 : 1 + 2i; MISS, BURN (6 -> 1), STRONG; 2hm +1hm [STR] +2hm [swordmaster] Progess - 2 Varou (1 asleep) - 10/10End the Fight - 6,1 : 10p; STRONGDecapitating it as she passes and finishing her leap with her sword in the skull of the sleeper.
"A sword is soo much better than axe!" Kithayn thonks as she boots the Varou's head from her sword.
Inside cave are 4 human captives including a dead Lenne
Milestone - Iron Vow - Return Lenne to her children - 6/10Cingi, Innkeeper of Northbridge is alive. Tells Kithayn that Varou found a door hidden at back of cave and all but the 2 outside (6) went in, taking some of their captives - including Mother
Milestone - Iron Vow - Learn Mother's Fate - 4/10The 3 survivors are too tired to move now. Will wait in cave for at least day and then make way to nearest Steading - Kithayn gives them directions.. They loot Varou for weapons - Kithayn gives axe to Congi - it was his anyway!
Discover a Site - troublesome, Ancient Ruin - Nekun's HoleKithayn carefully explores the cave & checks with captives what Varou were carrying
Secure an Advantage - 5,2 : 4 + 3w; STRONG; prepare +2m (3)and passes through the doorway discovered by the Varou ...
05 - Nekun's Hole
As short corridor entered a room, pit trap has Varou dead on spikes at bottom.
Delve the Depths - 3,1 : 1 + 3 wits; STRONG: progress, opportunityStairs down, impaled human on spikes up from stairs. Standing at head of stairs, feels air-current to side; quick search reveals a hidden door that reveals sloping passage parallel to stairs.
Progress - Nekun's Hole - 3/10
Find an Opportunity - 18; terrain favours / hidden path; +1 mom (4)
Delve the Depths - 6,3 : 6 + 1 shadow; STRONG: progress, opportunityWriting on wall has some of the same letters that are on her father's gauntlets. Kithayn had thought them just decorative, but the way they appear on the wall, they're clearly letters .. what alphabet? what language? not the time now - press on
Progress - Nekun's Hole - 6/10
Find an Opportunity - 28; history / nature revealed; +1 mom (5)
Delve the Depths - 9,6 : 4 + 3 wits; WEAK: Wits: 24 progress, reveal dangerFrom her secret passage, Kithayn can see torchlight through one of the spyholes ahead. Hang on ... how could she see the writing just now? she wasn't carrying a torch ... there was no light at all, but she could still see ... she'd always known she could see well at night compared to others, but to see with no light? what is this?
Progress - Nekun's Hole - 9/10
Reveal a Danger - Kithayn realises the obvious ...
Endure Stress - dangerous : -2 spirit (3); 4,2 : 4 + 3 spirit; STRONG; embrace +1 mom (6)Focus! Find Mother! She must know the answers!
Milestone - Iron Vow - Learn Mother's Fate - 5/10blah