Kaith Tax Collection
Summary
Adventure: Kaith Tax Collection
GM: Julie
Season: Winter 801 WK
- Party
- Michael - Mighty warrior and prince amongst men, accompanied by his three capable guards Dean, Alan and John
- Viola - Beautiful sorceress with exquisite taste in clothes, graceful, elegant and lethal. Party leader
- Jonas - Unarmed combat master from the far north, strong of morals and courage
- Anooke - Halfling from further north than the far north, beyond where the land meets the sea and the sea becomes as land. Master of dangerous beasts
- Arnaud de Montfort Esq Scribe
- Time on adventure
- 1 Frost 801 WK to 29 Frost 801 WK
- Employer
- Count of Kaith (Brandenburg)
- Mission
- Collect taxes from one of his Barons.
- Original Scribe Notes
- Media:Snwi0101.zip
- Well worth a look, many images.
Scribe Notes
1st Frost Seagate, city of beggars, guild meeting. We have been hired by Able a minor functionary of the county of Kaith in Brandenburg on behalf of the count to get the taxes from one of his barons. This year three groups have already been sent one after another and disappeared without trace
- The first was two tax collectors and their three guards
- The second was a troop of eight soldiers and a sergeant which was sent by the chamberlain
- The third was a group of four amateur non-guild adventurers from Erin sent by the count
He has agreed that the count will provide all equipment however we must bargain with the count for payment and he is unsure of the ransoms available for the missing men. The barony in question is located upon a cold plateau. He will pay for and arrange all transport. 2nd-3rd Frost Party Trains and equips themselves, waterproofing from the guild is generously paid by Michael, with Viola's lasting till 19th of Seedtime 4th Frost We board the ship Gentle Anne, a slow but comfortable costal hugger which trades up and down the kingdom, with two bunks per room. Viola is evidently extremely experienced in shipboard life and boldly states "I've wrestled with sailors before", she has apparently vanquished many a pirate.
4th - 8th Frost
Uneventful travel training on board 8th Frost The ship was assaulted by six fishmen who swarmed upon the ship while their orange shark allies swim about eating the fallen. Never have seen such as display of combat prowess, the fight being over so rapidly that I never had time to even draw my sword. Michael called down the power of light and hewed left and right with mighty blows like death incarnate. Jonas engaged one in unarmed combat where he disarmed and slew it with contemptuous ease. Viola attacked another slaying it with cat like grace with a sinister weapon of darkness. Anook created a wall of fire then killed the injured as befits his halfling heritage while Michaels guards slew yet another of the foul creatures. The final two of the creatures were so overcome by the furious assault that they quailed in fear and fell unconscious rather than face the party's wrath. The sailors as befitting their serf like breeding fled like frightened children and only returned to attempt murder and theft upon the captives, fortunately the party inspired by the moral fortitude of Jonas stopped a massacre. The captain, when he had emerged from hiding behind frighted women and children decided that rather than attempt to ransom the fishmen we should release them so they can spread the word not to attack ships. To assist this I taught one the phrase "Don't attack Shipping" by repeating it ten times using the proven `doigts cassés' teaching method to ensure it becomes part of their verbal history, similar to how one teaches bards. Profit Six nets and Six Tridents (72 pennies, 42 pounds ) GTN ‘Sahugan’ (Fishman) long lived sentitent,social class = soldier Loss One sailor killed by sharks after valiantly standing before the assaulting fishmen while women, children and rest of crew fled. One sailor injured after leaping from rigging into sea in his haste to flee, rescued but somewhat chewed upon 9th - 11th Frost Uneventful travel training on board 12th Frost We arrive in the port, seat of count Connell of Kaith. It is a well organised, rich trading town with cranes on the docks to allow movement of heavy goods and very few pubs. At the castle we where met by Alfonse the steward, he arranged miscellaneous travel goods, accommodation in town and a meeting with the chamberlain. He seems to think that the taxes may have been stopped deliberately to make the count look bad. After waiting the normal hour to meet the chamberlain, Shawn McGunnan we were ushered into his office for lunch which was sumptuous and greatly appreciated after shipboard fare. The mission objectives were laid out as being to find out what was stopping the taxes, fix the problem and if possible return with them. We were asked to be discreet so as not to embarrass the count. Payment was to be whatever remained of seven and a half thousand pennies worth of rank one invested items ( guild valuation ) provided to us in advance and five thousand silver pennies upon completion. All travel goods will be provided and the armour and weapons of any soldiers found is to be their ransom. Other ransoms may exist for the tax collectors, sergeant and adventurers from their respective families. We have been also provided with two potions of whispering wind to inform the chamberlain as soon as we find out what is occurring. Castle Connell My Fiance Aslyn Court gossip is that the count who is twenty five years old and has only been in power since his fathers death for two years is considered too inexperienced to run the county by some of the older nobles and that running the county should be handed over to Duke Brandenburg. We were invited to dine with the count and nobles that night, Viola dressed in her glacier dress, as Anook aptly describes it. Jonas considered coming in his best matching furs however was convinced otherwise as it may have been inappropriate to wear at this conservative court. The festivities were superb, with abundant rich fare, enough even for a hungry hobbit. At court were the barons Dearwood, Taks and Fordham, where the missing taxes are from. Michael looking ‘richer than the gods’ enjoyed the evening discussing the spice and beef trade with Clive and Catriola Hartley. I was introduced to several merchants daughters, found one I liked and proposed, we shall be married after I return from the adventure. Viola made the acquaintance of a limp wristed troubadour named Abriham who spent the evening making blundering attempts at seduction while staring down her cleavage. Some half an hour after proposing to Aslyn I was forced to leave her as Annook and Jonas approached me with a tale of woe, it appears that Viola had been drugged, abducted and taken over the back wall of the castle by Abriham. While Annok and Jonas asked about outside the castle and found out that a wagon with a page boy and possibly Abriham and Viola had been seen leaving, discreet explanations to the chamberlain about what had occurred and where Abriham might be found allowed us to eventually locate Viola and Abriham leaving a gentlemans club together, we were rather annoyed at Abriham and he hastily departed. Later that night Viola tearfully explained that this blundering fop is in fact a pacted demon worshipper, the page boy his half devil lover and that he was attempting to seduce her to the powers of darkness, it appears his master likes pretty boys and girls, he obviously doesn't choose them for their intelligence, and is a master of illusions. She forgot to mention the EVIL bit, but did mention between choking back sobs that a previous guild party had sold her to eighty men to “do as they wish” with while she was unconscious and that the father of her child, a guild necromancer, had deserted her. Viola asked us as party leader not to inform on Abriham, however Michael explained in no uncertain fashion to the chamberlain what we thought of him. Hopefully this wandering troubadour will get the message and leave quietly, wander elsewhere and never wander back without requiring more blatant blackmail or force to get him to depart the county. 13th Frost Visited Aslyn and family in morning, left letters for my father and got formal permission to marry from her father. Party equipped with three mules, one horse for Viola leave the city heading north to the town of Fordham some forty miles distant, there we hope to meet the mayor who knows more about what is occurring and how much tax is in arrears. As we travel north the weather becomes very cold with sleet starting about four hours out of town, spend the night in a roadside inn.
