S01
Events
The adventure started as The Cadre are leaving at the Faymill on the road to Deerholt. Carrick Siverridge has a vision!
Vision 1
A great warrior beating many other people, sees the moon fade and is stabbed in the back by 4 people.
Update
They give the Carrick Siverridge a update about the previous meeting where people are worried about his ability to lead.
The Encampment of Shadows
As they are taking the road, they find the weather changes and they come up to an Encampment, To get protection from the weather. They are given a hardly welcome by Clapper Rodegro Alvarez. He offers to have them stay. They meet the rest of the encampment.
and a woman in a tent they don't yet see.
Lyla Silverridge looks in the darkness and sees that the guards are teleporting in the darkness, not knowing exactly they are Shadow walkers.
Lady Sarah Ides Tarasovich they are from Covinggard but they joined a trade delegation going from Paradise Valley in Graisti. They sailed to Astorga in Almirn to sell rubies. They donated to the poor, but when leaving they were attacked by pirates on the Sea of Flowers. They were able to beat the pirates but their ship was damaged and crashed on the beach. They now are returning home by land.
Conversation turns to the the nature of nobles having to have children, touching on the nature of illegitimate children. Soverighn Ides Lev Tarasovich notes that his father was only 16 when he had him. This turns in to them realizing that Sarah Ides Tarasovich is not used to getting compliments. They discern that House Tarasovich is a very powerful minor house.
Blessed Geoffrey Fortier notes that he can see the future from the stars. Sarah Ides Tarasovich notes that she dreams of the past.
Halfway through the night Lady Daphne Polonsky comes out from the tent, easily recognizable as one of the 4 great beauties in history. The moon fades with her brilliance. They learn that Lady Daphne Polonsky was adopted to the House Polonsky. She says that she met with Peacekeeper Louis Covinggard That told her the players backgrounds. It comes out most of the journey even thoughts they made money was primarily for the young nobles to see the eastern lands.
Lady Daphne Polonsky says she is looking for a great man, the cadre eventually realizes that this means that she is prepared to be a foil to stop Leon Blackwood.
Clapper Bell Jean-Paul talks about how her family was so poor she was child labor for the Church. From that because of fighting other children she was taken to the Clapper Schools, to become a warrior for the Bell.
Sarah Ides Tarasovich Confesses that she keeps steel knitting needles, she says that she has made many of the flags of families that '''''Honor them.''''' She shows a book of her work, giving the impression that many houses have given them homage.
Soverighn Ides Lev Tarasovich Has a conversation with Lyla Silverridge, about the heir maybe being a match for Sarah Ides Tarasovich, The is stopped as House Tarasovich only gives repucation not troops, land or wealth. Soverighn Ides Lev Tarasovich says that he knew Lyla Silverridge's family well he knows personally Baron Errol Talmert and from that knows the legend of Rory Silverridge meeting and falling in love with Celia Silverridge. Lyla Silverridge Also inquires about Daphne Polonsky "absorbing" the moonlight enlists a story that on Daphne Polonsky birth had a lunar eclipse for 3 days. They say that her "absorbing" is something that happens every night. It lasts about a 5 or 10 minute walk from her.
The group goes to bed, and Carrick Silverridge has another vision!
Vision 2
He has a waking dream, hearing a discordant bell ring, and he looks out side of the tent to see the fire, has become "shadow fire" almost a creature of black flame. The trees shadows rise and come on the fire, making it in to a old well.
The Next Morning
Carrick Silverridge wakes Gregory Apt Banille, as they realize that there is a man outside of the tent, when they reach for him they just see footprints. Gregory Apt Banille gets his puppy to track the footprints to a tree, where a person might have been in. With the noise they are making they raise the rest of the camp.
He tries to tell the guards what he saw, but they are giving half answers and deflecting. After that the Bellringers, and the guards do prayers. Carrick Silverridge Prays with them realizing that the "guards" are praying slightly different prayers.
Carrick Silverridge, asks' Sarah Ides Tarasovich about the well from his dream, she says it's an old symbol of her house that is not used, she also lets her knowledge slip though. He then tries to push with learning information about the "black flame" and she tries her best to tell Carrick Silverridge not to ask about it, for his own danger.
After the party leaves they talk about what they think is happening.
They feel that they House Tarasovich is likely the retainers of House Sedi and have their magics.