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Winter 1244

Session 24 May 2023

Sean has travelled through Shoreham. Tim has visited in raven shape. Tim has also talked to Archimedes, and ravens from Shoreham may have visited. Several sources tell about a suspicious novice who arrived in Autumn and is now being trained by father Charles. It seems that the apprentice may be Gifted. None of them have had time to get further information within by the end Autumn, so the story starts in Winter.

Sean makes a visit as nightwalker. He finds the apprentice sleeping in the living room at the vicarage. He has a chest with an expensive lock, but nothing else seems significant.

Beibhinn, Regina, and Quinn go to Shoreham to investigate in person. Regina casts a magic sense spell on Beibhinn so that she can sense the Gift if the apprentice has one. She enters the church and finds the apprentice in the study at the back. He is startled and slams his book shut.

Beibhinn tries to charm him into letting her touch him to use the sense spell. She is excessively charming, and the apprentices spontaneously gives him a hug when she approaches. She senses no numbness of the Gift, and he quickly turns away embarrassed.

The party camps outside of town. Quinn goes to buy food just before the gates close. At the same time, Sean makes another nightwalker visit just to see that the apprentice carries the book back to the vicarage and puts it in the locked chest, keeping the key in a chain around his neck.

The second night, they take into the inn, to be inside the gates at night. Beibhinn and Twidget breaks into the vicarage to steal an arcane connection to the apprentice. The next day they return to Elk’s Run to have Cieran make teleportation cookies, one for Beibhinn to return outside Shoreham and two for the return to Elk’s Run. The Numbness of the Gift is recast with an AC to the apprentice for penetration.

Beibhinn makes a second visit in the apprentice’s study. This time he is less welcoming. She should not be there, and the last visit was a mistake. Beibhinn persists, though, and on direct question, the apprentice admits that he has a master, Hugo, who is a magus of the Order of Hermes. Houses and lineages make no sense to the apprentice. They pursue holy magic. Beibhinn gives him one of Cieran’s cookies and persuades him to taste, so that he teleports back to Elk’s Run. Beibhinn grabs the book and comes after.