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# Winter
## Returning from Clon MacNoise
**Played** 17th February 2021
The troupe returns from Clon Macnoise on 1 November, the first day of the
Irish year.
In a village, midway between Killaloe and An Scairbh, they meet Eogan.
He has spent the night with the grooms in the hayloft, and is now spending
the morning hours with his sweetheart before he has to return to Elk's Run.
He finally pulls his act together and proposes to the girl.
She is reluctant to believe him, but once she does, she is thrilled.
Afterwards, the troupe passes through An Scairbh.
It has been a year since the effect of the Mist of Change ended, and
the population is at least halved since before the Mist.
The villagers are gathered in the village square, talking.
There is a foul stench over the village, maybe rotting carcasses, and many
of the cottages are still in disrepair.
As the group arrives, some of the recognise Liam, who turns to Boris,
the nearest unGifted person in the group. «Long time, no see.»
The villagers are proud, and they want Liam's Cult to save them after
the harsh time following the Mist of Change. Liam wants Una, and the others
to join the forming Cult. The more people they are, the more powerful will
the Cult be.
It seems that the villagers are promised greatness if they form a local cult.
Una, particularly, is hostile, and the villagers, feeling threatened, pick
up pitchforks and axes to defend themselves. Not prepared to fight the group
leaves without comitting either way.
## Council Meeting
**Played** 3 March 2021
Una calls an emergency meeting as soon as they get to the covenant, and
nobody is fond of an infernal cult on their doorstep, but decision make
is a slow and cumbersome process.
Philippedes goes to The Peruchia of Nerius the next day to seek
advice. The best advice he gets is to persuade the villagers to
confess and seek penance.
Crimthann and Una do research in the library and learn that
+ Pagan village near sir Hanson's village
+ Lugh (or Lugus) and the Tuatha Dé lives in the Land of the Living
+ It is extremely hard to enter the faerie realm. A faerie road helps, but is not enough. You need to impress the faeries too.
## Travelling to the Pagan Village
**Plauyed** 10 March 2021
**Played** 10 March 2021
**Cast** Una, Philippedes, Seafraid, Dermot
At breakfast 3 November, the magi reach a decision. They will first
try Una's course, and try to find the true Lugh of the Tuatha Dé.
They decide to travel to the pagan village, which is located close to
Gern and sir Hanson's manor.
Maine refuses to take part in the pagan endeavour.
On the way, they pass through An Scairbh. They talk to no one, but
observe that the villagers are engaged in construction work
under Liam's direction.
In Gern, they meet Peter Coffin and Grendleby, and with some difficulty,
they engage Pip to be their guide.
The once pagan village is at the end of the path up one of the valleys,
and they arrive before noon.
Una and Phil talk to the old wise woman, Adoarna, who remembers the
pagan times. Now a chapel has been raised near the village, on the
site of their old hall.
Dermot talks to the blacksmith and has his blades sharpened.
There is a good and broad briddleway leading into the forest to the chapel,
as both Adoarna and the smith can confirm. Adoarna points them rather to
an old and overgrown path.
They departed on 4 November and tok 2½ days to Gern, where they spent
the afternoon socialising with Peter Coffin. They arrived at
the village of Chapel Hill on 7 November.
## Travelling to the Pagan Village
**Played** 17 March 2021
**Cast** Una, Seafraid, Dermot, Ethel
The troupe ventured into the faerie forest where they met
Fionn MacCuhaill and helped him catch the fish in the river.
The other side of the river is covered in mist.
They tried to cross the bridge, and Dermot overconfidently
challenged the guardian knight. He took numerous wounds before
he was knocked unconscious and into the river.
The question now is, can he survive? How can they best heal him?
## Still in the Pagan Village
**Played** 24 March 2021
**Cast** Una, Seafraid, Philippedes, [Hiccup](../Cast/Hiccup), Ethel
Philippedes takes Dermot back to covenant, with a complex spree
of teleportation, shrinking, and bind wound.
The troupe eats with Fionn mac Cumhaill. Hiccup knows his story,
and they learn that Fionn is omniscient after tasting the fish.
When Hiccup asks Fionn why people do not trust him, they all learn
that Hiccup is Gifted.
Faeries steal their tent pegs during the night.
During the day they are unable to find the regio of the Old Hall.
Ethel talks to Hiccup's parents and they accept his starting an
apprenticeship as a `scribe'.
After sunset, both Ethel and Seafraid is able to see into the
regio. They enter and meet Llewelyn the steward, who has prepared
the long table for several scores guests. The troupe is warmly
welcomed and served the full meal for 60-100 people. Una has not seen
a meal like this since Cierella's forest.
Llewelyn, and the gnomes who serve the meal, are evidently hoping for the
villagers to return and tell the stories of the old heroes as they used to
do in the past. They are entertained by the party's stories though, even
though it is not quite like the old hero tales.
The party learn very little, though they do get the hint that Lugh lives
in *Elysium*. Fionn should know how to get there, if he has tasted the
fish, but by the time the magi have the clue, he is long gone.
Of course, the Gifted child is the best reward for the effort.
**Confidence Points**
Philippedes 2, Una and Seafraid 3 each (including previous session),
Hiccup 2 (*iff* he is upgraded to companion in the near future)
## Back at the Covenant
**Played** 31 March 2021
**Cast** Cieran, Philippedes, Maine, Seafraid, Una, Eogan, Hiccup
### Council Meeting
Council attended by voting members una, seafraid, phil, cieran
and Igneous Drake.
Maine chaired the meeting but had no vote as he is still a probationer.
it was agreed Maine had the right to speak on each issue but no vote on any.
1. Who will train hiccup?
It was agreed Cieran would immediately take hiccup as his hermetic apprentice.
2. What to do with an Scairbh
It was agreed to provide food and other provisions to the village and then introduce the villagers to a priest. it was also agreed that any further seeking of the faerie lugh was maga Una's affair rather than the covenants
3. How to us the 20 ex bandits from the Clonmacnoise demonic incident?
agree that all magi would provide Maine with a list of the numbers required for their own areas of concern by the following day. the remainder to be deployed to the copper mining operations
4. Eogan's wedding
it was agreed the covenant would host and pay for the wedding feast of Eogan and Ornice on the day before the winter solstice.
5. The matter of ordering hermetic books from the continent via Adelaine the redcap.
Cieran asked for a high level imaginem book but this was not agreed. Una suggested a high level muto book and this was agreed for the price of 28 pawns of vis.
The wedding party will probably cost £1 over and above the regular Aegis feast.
### Action
Una, Philippedes, Maine, and Seafraid go to An Scairbh, and the villagers
accept the alms and the employment.
Cieran, escarted by armed clansmen, bring the brigands from Clon MacNoise.
Hiccup joins to learn.
Eogan is going to marry to Ornice, from the village of
Ogonelloe between An Scairbh and Killaloe, on the eve of the
solstice.
When the wedding party arrives, the day before,
they learn that a toddler has disappeared
from Ogonelloe. They go to investigate, and Una casts Inexorable Search
to learn that the boy is in An Scairbh. The familiar tracks him to the
largest building in the village, and the four magi march straight on.
As they open the door, a two-headed hound leaps to attack Saorse, and soon
after, a dozen axe when assemble to attack them as well.
Seafraid is badly injured. Maine and Una take light wounds. Yet all the
enemies are incapacitated or killed. The missing toddler is found in the
building and brought to Elk's Run to his parents in the middle of the night.
The axe men did not look like villagers.
## The Day of the Aegis Ritual.
**Played** 7 April 2021 TBP
## The Day of the Aegis Ritual.
**Cast** Una, Maine, Philippedes, Seafraid, Ethel
During the Aegis ritual, Seafraid slipped away to steal two books from
Oswald's:
1. Teleportation Rego Q11
2. A pictorial on Irish Legend and Lore. This is mainly a research aid [Cov].
## Adventure Source Quality
These qualities include all adventures counted as part of Winter, for
most characters this includes the Grey Knights just between AUtumn and
Winter.
+ Dermot 10xp
+ Ethel 12xp
+ Maine 10xp
+ Seafraid 16xp
+ Una 20xp
+ Phil 18xp
+ Eogan 8xp
+ Richard 15xp
# Spring
**Played** Discord #marlowe-cave 7-14 April 2021
Una visits Marlowe's cave to learn spells, and she also makes a brief
visit in the Faerio Regio at Chapel Hill.
# Summer
## Midsummer Fair in Greater Alps
**Played** 14 April 2021 TBP
The magi go to the Midsummer Fair at the Icy North in the Greater Alps.
They bring some [Goods for Sale]().
The magi buy the following:
- *The Quest through Elysium* by Quendalon filius Merinita.
Tractatus Faerie Lore Q7.
Allegedly, this is an original manuscript, and it looks the age.
Asking price 50pvv. Bought for 13pvv.
- *Healer's Grimoire* by Gwendae ex Miscellanea.
Severed Limb made Whole CrCo25;
Cheating the Reaper CrCo30;
Incantation of the Body Made Whole CrCo40.
Asking price 10pvv. Bought for 5pvv.
- *Laboratoriana* by Philippus Magnus ex Bonisagus.
Chamber of the Summer Breezes CrAu(Ig) 15;
The Resolute Mind [Cov:122] ReMe20;
Gleam of the Freshly-Polished Glass PeTe25.
Asking price 6pvv. Bought for 4pvv.
# Autumn
