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title: Annals of Elk's Run 1239-1241
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1239
: No events

1240
: Hiccup starts his Magnimartha and takes Ercc to see Cierella

1241
: Hiccup does his Gauntlet in Autumn

# Autumn 1240: Hiccup and Ercc meet Cierella

# Autumn 1241: Hiccup does his gauntlet in the village

**Cast** Hiccup, brother Raymond, Dubh Essa (Dylan)

# 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

# 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