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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8848270" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p><strong>Tours, 1060</strong></p><p></p><p>We got arrogant in the marshy floodplains of the Loire. </p><p></p><p>In those days, Tours was two cities separated by the Loire. On the eastern shore was the castle, the cathedral, the archbishop's palace and other official buildings. On the western shore was the "new city," the Châteauneuf where merchants and the actual business of the city took place. In between were the vineyards and fields and, of course, the marshes and river.</p><p></p><p>None could approach us easily during the day and if someone did try to brave the sea of reeds, their passage would be easy for Raum to spot.</p><p></p><p>Constansia and I came ashore in the evenings, enjoying everything the Châteauneuf had to offer. My wife enjoyed food and wine while she searched for local fortune tellers and wise women, always on the hunt for more occult knowledge. I moved freely through the city, hunting freely in a place where I was no man's son, no woman's whispered-about brother.</p><p></p><p>We slept securely during the day. Constansia gushing about the forbidden works she had located, including copies of apocrypha banned by the Church. We listened to Raum land on the roof of the barge, keeping watch as we drifted off to sleep.</p><p></p><p>I awoke shortly after sundown at Carnutes' voice, with Constansia gone.</p><p></p><p>"You stupid boy," he said, his voice showing only the faintest hint of emotion. "If it wasn't for me, you would be dead. And you have the ingratitude to scorn me for it, to turn against me?"</p><p></p><p>I looked around, confused. Carnutes was nowhere to be seen in the below-decks room we had created in the hold, the expensive bed Constansia and I shared in the center of what looked as much like an bed chamber as I could imagine. There wasn't a room for a man of Carnutes' size to be here unseen, speaking so closely and clearly.</p><p></p><p>"I am beyond your power," I replied, leaning up on my elbows. I glanced around the room and found the Spear of Aeolius close at hand, if Carnutes would reveal himself. "Make yourself a new companion. You can have Orléans -- I have left it behind and have no desire to see it again."</p><p></p><p>"Not until I have taken back what I foolishly gave you," Carnutes replied.</p><p></p><p>There was a stirring noise and it took me a second to recognize it as the sound of wings. I found Raum squatting in the shadows, staring at me. I raised an eyebrow and shook my head slightly, indicating he should remain silent while I located Carnutes.</p><p></p><p>The raven opened his beak and barked Carnutes' short laugh.</p><p></p><p>"I can always find you, boy. Your madwoman wife is not the only one who knows magic," Carnutes' voice came from Raum's black beak. "The penknife you abandoned is connected to both you and your bird. I gave quite a performance for the archbishop earlier. Even now, his men are heading your way, searching vessels in the marsh for the warlock and his wife who dared send their familiar to taunt the archbishop earlier. But I wanted you to know it was I who had killed you, even if it is not my hand that takes back the --"</p><p></p><p>Raum's eyes grew wide, a choked sound coming from his open beak as I shoved the pilum deeper into the wood. The choking noise was not Raum's voice, however, and I knew, miles away, that the Spear of Aeolius was also piercing Carnutes' breast, wherever he was currently.</p><p></p><p>"You need not worry about being lonely any more," I said, withdrawing the spear, listening to both Raum's and Carnutes' death rattles a moment before racing up on deck to find Constansia and cast off before the archbishop's men found us.</p><p>[spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 11 + 7 - 4 = Prompt 14</p><p></p><p><em>An enemy Character uses a lost Resource to turn your few friends against you. Check three Skills to regain the Resource or check one Skill to barely survive. Which former friend did you kill? Where did you flee?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Le Passeur</strong></p><p></p><p>Skills: </p><p>Literate in French;</p><p>Skilled at navigating boats;</p><p>Bloodthirsty (checked); </p><p>Knows the secrets of killing vampires (checked);</p><p>I control the beast; </p><p></p><p>Resources:</p><p>a cowhorn inkwell, engraved with a knight;</p><p>a small bronze crucifix;</p><p>the Spear of Aeolius, an ancient Roman spear capable of killing vampires</p><p></p><p>Characters:</p><p>Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal);</p><p>Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil (mortal);</p><p></p><p>Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times; my touch is fatal to plants</p><p></p><p>Memory (up to three Experiences): </p><p>1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of (redacted), a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord; one of the joys of my youth, gardening, slips away as my touch is now fatal to plants; </p><p>2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford; after my father's death, Constansia and I leave Orléans by barge, after setting my house aflame and allowing my sister to believe I was destroyed there; </p><p>3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness; I confront Carnutes about him making me a vampire and he confesses he did it out of loneliness and tells me I will suffer in the same way some day; Carnutes possessed Raum and led the Archbishop of Tours' men to try and killed me -- but I used the Spear of Aeolius and killed Raum and Carnutes instead</p><p>4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed; Constansia conducts her Satanic rituals and summons a demon, Raum, to serve me in the form of a raven;</p><p>5. I am le Passeur:</p><p>[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8848270, member: 11760"] [B]Tours, 1060[/B] We got arrogant in the marshy floodplains of the Loire. In those days, Tours was two cities separated by the Loire. On the eastern shore was the castle, the cathedral, the archbishop's palace and other official buildings. On the western shore was the "new city," the Châteauneuf where merchants and the actual business of the city took place. In between were the vineyards and fields and, of course, the marshes and river. None could approach us easily during the day and if someone did try to brave the sea of reeds, their passage would be easy for Raum to spot. Constansia and I came ashore in the evenings, enjoying everything the Châteauneuf had to offer. My wife enjoyed food and wine while she searched for local fortune tellers and wise women, always on the hunt for more occult knowledge. I moved freely through the city, hunting freely in a place where I was no man's son, no woman's whispered-about brother. We slept securely during the day. Constansia gushing about the forbidden works she had located, including copies of apocrypha banned by the Church. We listened to Raum land on the roof of the barge, keeping watch as we drifted off to sleep. I awoke shortly after sundown at Carnutes' voice, with Constansia gone. "You stupid boy," he said, his voice showing only the faintest hint of emotion. "If it wasn't for me, you would be dead. And you have the ingratitude to scorn me for it, to turn against me?" I looked around, confused. Carnutes was nowhere to be seen in the below-decks room we had created in the hold, the expensive bed Constansia and I shared in the center of what looked as much like an bed chamber as I could imagine. There wasn't a room for a man of Carnutes' size to be here unseen, speaking so closely and clearly. "I am beyond your power," I replied, leaning up on my elbows. I glanced around the room and found the Spear of Aeolius close at hand, if Carnutes would reveal himself. "Make yourself a new companion. You can have Orléans -- I have left it behind and have no desire to see it again." "Not until I have taken back what I foolishly gave you," Carnutes replied. There was a stirring noise and it took me a second to recognize it as the sound of wings. I found Raum squatting in the shadows, staring at me. I raised an eyebrow and shook my head slightly, indicating he should remain silent while I located Carnutes. The raven opened his beak and barked Carnutes' short laugh. "I can always find you, boy. Your madwoman wife is not the only one who knows magic," Carnutes' voice came from Raum's black beak. "The penknife you abandoned is connected to both you and your bird. I gave quite a performance for the archbishop earlier. Even now, his men are heading your way, searching vessels in the marsh for the warlock and his wife who dared send their familiar to taunt the archbishop earlier. But I wanted you to know it was I who had killed you, even if it is not my hand that takes back the --" Raum's eyes grew wide, a choked sound coming from his open beak as I shoved the pilum deeper into the wood. The choking noise was not Raum's voice, however, and I knew, miles away, that the Spear of Aeolius was also piercing Carnutes' breast, wherever he was currently. "You need not worry about being lonely any more," I said, withdrawing the spear, listening to both Raum's and Carnutes' death rattles a moment before racing up on deck to find Constansia and cast off before the archbishop's men found us. [spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 11 + 7 - 4 = Prompt 14 [I]An enemy Character uses a lost Resource to turn your few friends against you. Check three Skills to regain the Resource or check one Skill to barely survive. Which former friend did you kill? Where did you flee?[/I] [B]Le Passeur[/B] Skills: Literate in French; Skilled at navigating boats; Bloodthirsty (checked); Knows the secrets of killing vampires (checked); I control the beast; Resources: a cowhorn inkwell, engraved with a knight; a small bronze crucifix; the Spear of Aeolius, an ancient Roman spear capable of killing vampires Characters: Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal); Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil (mortal); Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times; my touch is fatal to plants Memory (up to three Experiences): 1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of (redacted), a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord; one of the joys of my youth, gardening, slips away as my touch is now fatal to plants; 2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford; after my father's death, Constansia and I leave Orléans by barge, after setting my house aflame and allowing my sister to believe I was destroyed there; 3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness; I confront Carnutes about him making me a vampire and he confesses he did it out of loneliness and tells me I will suffer in the same way some day; Carnutes possessed Raum and led the Archbishop of Tours' men to try and killed me -- but I used the Spear of Aeolius and killed Raum and Carnutes instead 4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed; Constansia conducts her Satanic rituals and summons a demon, Raum, to serve me in the form of a raven; 5. I am le Passeur: [/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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