Downtime

Summer 1217

Welcome at the Covenant (Session 1. 5 February 2020)

New magi arrive at Elk’s Run in May 1217, and the characters are introduced.

Characters

Player Magi Cieran, Una, Lucas, Marcus, Vivianos,

Player Companions Captain Dermot, Serafina, Crimthan

Others Oswald, Lugardis, Igenous Drake, Mother Ea, librarian, maids, etc.

A Trip to Limerick (Session 3. 12 February 2020)

The group stayed at Karl’s inn near St Lazare’s church in Limerick.

They found that their trade contact, Harold, had died some weeks previous, and that he had left his business to the Church, with Father Fulke in charge. The father did not want to honour the agreements made with the previos owner, although Kevin did his best to argue that the agreement was with the business and not with its owner.

While they were arguing with the priest a `troll’ emerged from the sea, attacked the group, and fled through a narrow street and into the woods. The valiant fighting gained the groupe great respect among the townsfolk. Father Fulke would still not budge, but they got the name of Noriss Clayton, a struggling merchant who might be forthcoming.

Characters

PCs Una, Vivianus, Captain Dermot, Serafina

Pool Characters Proposal: Bran, Kevin, Jimmy the Groom (responsible for pack animals, Loreena (hunter/archer – George).

Limerick Part II. The Widow (Session 3. 26 February 2020)

Characters as above

Advancement (Summer 1217)

Cieran reads Herbam (21xp raising score to 6)

Four confidence points and 10xp to everyone taking part in Limerick.

Una and Vivianus earn their 3p vis for the work for the covenant in Limerick

Autumn 1217 (TBC)

Cattle drove (Session 4. 5 March 2020)

PCs Dermot, Bran, Éogan, a bard by Andreas?

Advancement (Autumn 1217)

Cieran reads Mentem (16xp raising score to 5)

Library Development 1217 (TBC)

The bookbinder and the illuminator are busy setting up the labs for Marcus and Lucas in the Autumn, after an off-season in the Summer. The chief librarian copies Fundamental Fast Casting by Kallias of Tremere, resulting in a Q12 copy.

The magi learn that the library is short-staffed, and cannot meet requests to copy books for trade at the moment. An elderly scribe had to retire last year, and the last apprentice they trained had to take over the accounts for the mining operation. There is another apprentice in training, but he wont be doing a full job for another year or two.

Winter 1218

Spring 1218

Mystery of the Mystery Cult (Session 5. 12 March 2020 TBC)

*PCs** Una, Vivianos, Cieran

The scroll passed to Cieran from Oswald’s private collection

To my sodales everywhere, greetings. It has always been my firm belief that magi of our Order of Hermes should seek to serve the mundane population rather than dominate it. We of the Rusticani already, as a group, hold this belief but I see few others doing so. Our Gift is a blessing from God and is a rare thing indeed. Surely the Lord gave us our ability to learn power to support his people on Earth. We Rusticani work within mundane communities to make our powers available to the betterment of those same communities and as such respect the very reason the Gift was given us. However, unless our Gift is a gentle one we, like most of our sodales, cause distrust and fear among those we dwell. This leads to the covenant system, where most magi shut themselves off from the world and interact only with those few who can eventually accept their Gift without fear. My intention is to create a new grouping I call the Servants of the People with the intent that we as an Order may better interact within the world’s societies. I have spent many decades creating the basics of this new mystery and call on any who would seek the same goals to come meet me at my tower at the junction of the Shannon and Suck rivers, south of the monastery of Clonmacnoise. You must arrive at the Spring Equinox to ensure easy entry to the regio in which I reside. Come join me on this new venture to integrate our fine Order to the service of the societies we have for so long shunned.

Jerome the Rusticani Ex Miscellanea Winter 1198