After-Action Report: Road to Monsterberg, Mythras edition - session 3

I am trying to be more regular! Here's the second session, too!

Jaroslav wined and dined with the Vogt of Teschen, meeting an itinerant fencing instructor from Moravia, as well as a travelling Polish merchant headed for the Bohemian border to do some risky trading.

We actually conversed nicely, and Jaroslav fenced and wrestled briefly with the instructor. He did well, as a veteran - but the instructor proved his mettle, and showed to everyone why he's teaching the likes of Jaroslav!

Meanwhile, the rest of the party carried out their heist. They managed it well - Elias the merchant first cased the bakery under false pretenses of being a journeyman from another guild, then scored some shitty improvised lockpicks for the footpad from the jeweler's guild where he was staying.

En route to the bakery on a cloudy night, Elias the merchant and Marzena the footpad arrived without incident. Vuk and Estelle stumbled upon two guards leading a drunk to the fools' cage, and decided to try to talk their way out of their predicament. That didn't go so well, and though Vuk somehow managed to escape, Estelle ended up in the fools' cage too.

Nevertheless, Marzena managed to pick and sneak her way through the bakery while Vuk and Elias kept the coast clear. 

Elias also made friends with a stray midden dog while waiting. Marzena found a sack of sawdust in a hidden compartment, then while Vuk caused a scene outside to draw out the baker's apprentice from his room, Marzena heaved the sack of sawdust out the window and all over the roof of the bakery's covered porch, leaving no doubt as to where it came from.

Vuk then drew attention to the scene from the street, making sure it couldn't be covered up, before everyone hightailed it out of there.

The next day, Jaroslav arranged to travel together with his new Polish friend partway to Ratibor, while the rest of the party got paid for their work.

With that done, everyone (including Elias's new mutt), set off to Ratibor alongside a merchant caravan.

Stopping at Freistadt for the wedding, Vuk and Estelle performed some slapstick routines for money while Elias and Marzena met Sir Vaclav of Novi Ves' squires again (see Session 2, link at the start of this post!), who put in a good word for them with the bauer and allowed one of them to race without having to pay an entry fee. Just as well, because the first two races in the qualifiers were a loss.

Meanwhile, Vuk wagered two pfennigs on being able to outdrink the village drunkard and managed to beat him by 5 seconds, before joining him in a drunken coma.

As the session ended, Estelle was preparing to pay her way into the race too, seeking a chance at fame despite not being the greatest rider.

We left there.