Here's a link to the previous session.
Also, if you find anything triggering, you might be well-advised to stop reading now.
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The session began after saving some traders. Turned out, one of them is the vogt of Ratibor, installed by Duke Nicolaus!
He offered to take over our prisoner, a guy that they've got a bounty on. He is likely going to get executed.
We also learned that he's serving a particular robber baron, himself suspected of being in league with heretics (i.e. Protestants). And if that wasn't villainy enough, it is well-known he has kidnapped a fair maiden (who might not be a maiden at this hour, but we didn't mention that) from a good family, and keeping her in his castle!
The vogt therefore offered us Ratibor's hospitality when we get there.
We removed the prisoner's armour, which Jaroslav planned on giving to Vuk to improve his odds of survival, as the foreigner has been nothing but useful, and was quite handy with his axe. Every knight needs a "spear" of battle-hardened men to be relevant, Jaroslaw reasoned. And Vuk might be a heretic, but at least he's fighting alongside Christians (i.e. Catholics) and against infidels.
As the knight pointed out, that's more than one can say about damn Hussites!
Overall, we arrived in the city. They installed us in Sleeping Lynx
tavern, all expenses are on the city. We're not overdoing it, sleeping
two by two in rooms...and our trader even declared he's going to sleep
in one of his colleagues.
(OOC, we know he's doing that because he's a crossdressing female, who can't accept being paired with Vuk - Esthel and Marzena are natural pairs. IC, we just think he's being rude to the city's powers, spurning their hospitality...but it's on him).
So there were a few minor accidents. At some point, the mastiffs guarding the Sleeping Lynx attacked an woman who works in the kitchens. J
aroslav and Kristian ran out to help - all they knew was that there was an woman screaming, might be anything from a bug to a snake to a rapist or infidels' activity - but they didn't find anything suspicious. After ensuring the proprietor would reward her for the injury adequately (she couldn't work with her arm torn, could she?!?), they retired - with compliments for the quick reaction by the city's watch.
Admittedly, part of the hurrying was due to being, well, in their underwear. Which was understandable, but unsightly, and made us feel uncomfortable.
In the night, however, Jaroslaw awoke when a giant spider (as big as a dog, can you believe that in a Christian land?!?) started chewing his leg. He grabbed it and tried to smash it against the wall, and directed Kristian - who had awoken by his master's startled cry - to go find a healer!
The multilegged menace, however, was extremely quick, and surprisingly tough. He didn't manage to injure it well enough, despite smashing it in the walls, while it chewed his arm to ribbons and managed to inject poison elsewhere, too.
His friends also arrived, and finally managed to hurt the spider badly enough it lost consciousness.
And the session ended with one of the two healers who had arrived - part of other noble visitors' retinues, no doubt - trying to save Jaroslaw. They succeeded, but barely.
How barely? They needed to roll a critical. They were as good at it as Jaroslaw was in fighting, the GM ruled, so the odds for each roll were 8% exactly.
He was still going to be in a coma for the night, and then they could leave his side.
Amusingly, there were calls to "summon Elias" who is our healer. But he
couldn't possibly get to Jaroslaw in time, even were he (or rather,
she...) to run in his/her underwear. Something that Elias would never do, no matter who was dying.
Please note for next time:
My next PC got named Vojslav due to a misunderstanding. I had misremembered Vojislav and said it to the GM erroneously (AFAICT, Vojslav is a fully acceptable name, grammatically, and it exists in other languages of the same group - just not in Polish).
Then we decided he's the equivalent of Bulgarian kids that end up being named "Steven" or the like, instead of "Stefan"... IOW, he was probably getting into fights due to other kids mocking his name!
We've all seen such kids, so we mocked his parents mercilessly for a while, and moved on.
Now, why was he summoned? Well, simple enough: he's the brother of the aforementioned maiden!
And why do I need another PC? Because recovery time is going to be measured in weeks. Makes no sense for his travelling companions to wait for Jaroslaw, unless they get tangled in conflicts and/or opportunities in the region, and decide or need to stay
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