--- title: Annals of Elk's Run 1239-1241 --- 1239 : No events 1240 : Hiccup starts his Magnimartha and takes Ercc to see Cierella 1241 : Hiccup does his Gauntlet in Autumn # Rewards # Autumn 1240: Hiccup and Ercc meet Cierella # Autumn 1241: Hiccup does his gauntlet in the village ## Session 1. 21? September **Cast** Hiccup, brother Raymond, Dubh Essa (Dylan) ## Session 2. 26 October **Cast** Hiccup, Dubh Essa (Dylan), Tim, Fintan ## Rewards + Tim 8xp 2 conf - local reputation «Spooky Army 1» in the village of Dubh Essa's + Hiccup 10xp 3 conf - swears the Oath and learns Parma Magica at the end of the season + Dubh Essa 10xp + Fintan 7xp + Raymond 8xp 2 conf # Autumn 1241: The Army from Connacht **Cast** Beibhinn (Dylan), Broin (John), Conlae (Gerard), Fergus (Gobbler), Quinn Bothar (Chris), one unnamed shield grog (RIP) ## Session 1. 28 September + Conlae and Broin search for lost cattle. + Beibhinn joins to look after the orchard. + Somebody has camped and harvested in the orchard. + They meet Jimmy who tell them about an army rallying near the mines. + After talking to the magi, they go with Jimmy to talk to the army. + The army leader says that they have no conflict with the covenant and are just passing through to Killaloe. + In the meantime, sir Roland visits the covenant to tell them about a new vision, like the ones 17 years prior, and he asks for help against these hedge wizards. + Learning of the rallying army, sir Roland leaves in haste to prepare his defence. ## Session 2. 5 October + The party returns from the mines early in the afternoon. + Reporting to Maine, they are sent off to «escort» the army past the covenant. + They come across a group cutting fruits and leaves from the trees. - an unarmed man with a sickle - two big brutes with helbards - two archers + The party confronts them and Beibhinn is concerned about the tree. + The helbardiers block the way and the man with the sickle agrees to finish up quickly and depart, which they do. + The harvesters go across the valley to camp in the woods. + The party makes camp to keep watch outside the woods. ## Session 3. 12 October 2022 + The characters collect Una to approach the other party early after dawn + Coming upon the camp in a glade, they see two Earth Elementals guarding it. + Una casts Lift the Dangling Puppet on one brute and the harvester, who starts chanting. + Quinn fires his bow. + One of the elementals charges against Una and the archer. + The other elemental attacks Conlae who has approached the camp to fire from the edge of the glade. + It is a long and hard fight, where Conlae is incapacitated and one shield grog falls, before they run away for reinforcement. + With the help of Dermot and Maine they can vanquish the elementals and collect 6p Vis. + The human opponents have escaped and are nowhere to be seen. ## Session 4. 19 October 2022 ## Rewards + Anyone taking part in two sessions have 3 confidence points and 10xp. + Did anyone take active part in more than two sessions? Or in just one? # Character Plans + Maine wants to complete his 15 books and train the apprentice + Visions (story flaw) may turn up something + He may take on a familiar, in maybe five years. + Raymond has vows (story flaw) + Beibhinn has the spirit companion + Crimthann is black sheep + Una trains Ercc until 1245 - then she may disappear into faerie