Plagues and Princesses - the Lucying - Session 9
Finnula claims sanctuary in the church. The law is that no guards or private army can enter the church lands, unless they can prove they are chasing a criminal and have a warrant for their arrest, which would have to be drawn up by Finnula's cousin Hilde. Cad'fael sets them up in rooms, takes Finnula to pray. Tabitha heals the stab wound in Merlyn, but they can't heal the poison. Drax goes out to guard the Lillend, everyone goes to bed.
Merlyn can walk and move and such, but doesn't feel good. She insists on coming with you to Willard's Creek. Finnula also insists on coming with you.
The next day, you interview the Lillend. She can understand common, but not speak it, so after biting Bodie, she is given paper and charcoal. She requests sausages in exchange for information. You manage to find out the Emmett did indeed summon her here, she flew for 2 nights and 1 day, but it is faster than walking (she came from around Dunthorpe), and she did her task so she would get sent home. After some research in the church library, Cad'fael's scholars help you to send her back home.
That evening you leave the city, hidden in a church wagon filled with medicine destined for the outer provinces. You part ways outside the city, and proceed the rest of the way on foot. About halfway there, you encounter a red spider with the body the same size as a humans, balanced on impossibly long spindly legs, accompanied by a very very large fuzzy black spider. They attack you. After defeating the spiders, Gre goes into the bushes and finds his totem bear. It is so fucking cute.
Captain Miller is pleased to see you. He has Christobel under heavy guard in hospital, as he had recently been turned into mincemeat by some thugs in purple hats.
Christobel met with Gerrad and Henley in the capital when they joined the red rose players as stagehands. Maria and Harri were the other stagehands. Zibrat had left recently, and the help was needed. One night after a performance, Christobel heard Gerrad and Henley talking about a break in, and how the show was set up, and how were they going to get it out. Having deduced that they were thieving things at a private screening, he managed to join them. He had good skills with lockpicks. They snuck away during a monologue heavy scene, and went up to the second floor. They went into a woman's bedroom and incapacitated her, Gerrad tucked her up into bed, while Christobel busied himself taking some nice jewelry.
Henley took a baby. Christobel did not sign up for this, but escaped with them anyway. They next went and robbed an apothecary for supplies to keep the baby quiet. Gerrad and Christobel waited in an alley while Henley broke in. Gerrad, enraged that Christobel took jewlery, started a fight, which ended with Christobel getting hit with an animated sword and told to behave and he would get a share of the ransom. The jewelry was taken from him and left in the alley.
Christobel drove the hired coach to Dunthorpe, where they holed up in a shady inn in the slum part of town, The Fiddler's Whistle. When he woke up, the other men and baby had gone, and he was being beaten up by Hayley's men. He was eventually deposited at the local hospital, realised he was a patsy, and turned to the guards for protection in exchange for evidence.
It is agreed that Christobel will be kept in the Dunthorpe as an indentured servant to the city till he is rehabilitated. Tabitha's cult follows her around. Finnula is confused by this. Merlyn is left with Bodie's parents to be cared for.
On the way to Willard's Creek, the 2nd night-watch is ambushed by Minotaurs. Two of them carry greataxes, the third, wearing a red bandana, carries a greathammer. The battle is fierce, and much damage is taken. Gre's bear almost dies. One of the greataxes is broken. Drax is poisoned by the greathammer, which is later revealed to be a powerful greathammer of smashing. After defeating them, the body of the minotaur with the grey bandana is found to have a note "You each will die slowly and painfully for what you did"