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title: Annals of Oculus Outpost 1227
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# Spring
## Rhine Tribunal Gathering of 1366AA
Held a year earlier than usual to accommodate the Grand Tribunal next year.
+ 10xp + 1 confidence
## Trouble at Home
**Cast** Jeppe, Siemer, Ingraham, + ??
While the magi are away, the covenant was expecting a shipment
of glassware which did not appear.
Jeppe was expecting supplies from the same vendor, known as Elof.
Jeppe, Siemer, and Ingraham go into Stockholm to investigate.
When they get to Stockholm, they find Elof's ship abandoned and
his warehouse catches fire. The fire is easily extinguished, but
breaking into the warehouse they find it empty, but for traces of
a person, probably a child, having been held captive.
At Elof's house, they find another merchant, Elric, arguing
with the maid. Elof owes money to Elric, but the maid does not
know where he is.
The maid can say that Elof returned to town two weeks ago, and
then disappeared 4-5 days ago.
No other properties of Elof's are known, although there is rumour of
one in Lübeck.
Allegedly, Elof has two children who have also disappeared two days
ago, and
the description of the daughter matches hair found in the warehouse.
Elof's wife died in childbirth, and according to the midwife,
the children were stillborn. Other rumours are patchy, about children
who never leave the house.
Jeppe suspects demonic offspring.
Elof has paid for docking for the season and let the crew have paid leave.
Unusual boot prints were found at the site of the fire, matching
Elric's boots.
Siemer breaks into Elof's house at night to steal the ledgers.
It seems that Elof buys junk and sells it off to some Aatto.
Is that a Finnish name?
THey also confirm the loan of £20 from Elric.
Inquiring about Elric, they find that he is known to lend
silver which disappears before the debt is due, and pursuing
the debt mercilessly as if it is genuine.
Elof has no other known associates.
At the same time a crate with broken glassware washes up at the
covenant. It has a sign which Ingraham identifies as belonging
to a tradehouse on Saaremaa off the Estonian coast.
The party goes to Saaremaa to find the tradehouse, which turns out
to be in the wilderness in the middle of the island. Aatto
turns out to be a merfolk faerie. They come across him talking
to the maid who runs off and escapes in the river when she sees
them.
The children are Aatto's, and Elof has kept them in a regio which
both he and Aatto can reach, where they make the glassware.
Now Aatto is blaming Elof for their disappearance.
Aatto has been buying the trash which he finds interesting, from Elof.
Aatto suggests that they talk to Guðrunn, a mermaid living near
Stockholm. She is known to drown people.
Siemer stayed behind in Stockholm.
Elric is very frustrated—presumably he didn’t get much out of Elof’s house.
On the second night, he comes out of Elof’s house holding a small wooden chest.
Siemer waits a bit, and then breaks into the house.
Siemer broke into Elric's house.
In Elric’s room, there are two locked wooden boxes.
One is very light, the other is very heavy.
Siemer takes the light one and brings it back to the inn, and opens the box.
Inside, it’s full of gold coins. Siemer shows it to Claas, who starts experimenting.
The gold coin has a head, but no writing. The blacksmith looks at the gold coins,
and says they’re not real: they don’t melt and can’t be bent.
## Seasonal advancement
+ Artal studies Bjornaer Lore - 13 SQ
+ Andreas: 10xp (Bargain 5/Parma 5) + 1 confidence
+ Gesche practices Single Weapon (4 to Single Weapon)
+ Talpa: Copy in Lubeck. Covenant pays 1p Vis. Exposure 2xp Scribe
+ Claas
# Summer
## Elof's disappearance
![lizard.png]()
**Session** 1 and 15 November 2022
The magi return home and start to investigate the disappearance of Elof.
Andreas and others find the entrance to a regio from the maid's chamber
in Elof's house. There, they spook a hut which runs away as they approach.
The owner comes later, unamused, but Andreas is polite and they get a good
chat. Elof had asked her for help. He had not realised that Guðrun was a
faerie until after borrowing the Gold. She expresses no friendly feelings
towards either the maid, Guðrun, nor Aarto.
**Session** 22 November and 13 December 2022
**Cast** Henry, Werner, Angelhart, Lerke, Jeppe, Basilus.
The troupe finds the village that was missing from Elof's map, and make
initial inquiries while camping just outside the town. The camp is attacked
by a lizard-like creature. Basilus defeats it by enclosing it in stone.
Continuing inland, towards the splotch on the map, they encounter a little
girl, about twelve years old and presumably faerie.
She shouts «intruders» in a strange and unrecognized language. And when the group try to approach,
she dives into the lake, and disappears. Henri tries to jump after her, only to realize that he's
not a great swimmer, and his armor is weighing him down, but he makes it back to shore.
Later, the group moves back, to camp, and plan their next step, but at night, during Basilus' watch,
a group of four men approach, presenting themselves as members of the tribe that controls this area,
and tell them they are not welcome to go any further.
The group tell them that they are after Elof, and then the girl appears, apparently she was standing
behind the four men.
The girl promises to talk to Elof on their behalf. While they wait, a
mystical eagle creature approaches the camp, and Basilus attacks it unprovoked.
It turns out to be one of Elof's children. They are surprisingly forgiving and
gives them a lot of the complex backstory.
+ The children made a deal with Guðrun to be freed from Elof.
+ They are bound to Elof in something which reminds the magi of a familiar bond.
+ Elof has now made a bargain with mystical creatures upriver.
+ These creatures are similar to the lizard-like creature slain outside the village.
+ The girl is one of these upriver creatures too.
Jeppe and some of the others went for a hunt, looking for other tracks.
They found two sets of children's tracks, which they followed, leading to
a number of birds killed by shattered glass.
The birds were not native but rather from around Lübeck.
They also found a regio up in a tree; Elof's kids later said that it is empty.
Our camp was destroyed by a massive serpent-like creature. We managed to track
Elof (presumably when he left the regio he was in); with our tracking help, Elof's
children killed him and thus ended their servitude to him.
They got a deal for new glassware from the children.
+ The children will be free from slavery
+ The covenant will find them a Faerie Regio nearby that they can live in
+ In return, the children will provide the covenant with glassware.
## Gathering of Twelve Year
+ Artal adventures (Gathering) - 7 xp, +2 Confidence (2 xp in Bjornaer Lore, 5 xp in Intrigue)
+ Gesche Learns East Norse from Gertrude (11 to East Norse)
+ Gertrude teaches East Norse (2 exposure in Teaching)
+ Talpa: Copy in Lubeck. Covenant pays 1p Vis. Exposure 2xp Scribe
+ Jenico writes out 80 spell levels (Exposure 2xp Latin)
+ Andreas Invents *Binding the Hermetic Codex*
- Train Honeystocker (8xp Magic Theory) Exposure 2xp Magic Theory
+ Claas prepares Artal's lab; Exposure 2xp Magic Theory
# Autumn
+ Artal learns The Voice of the Bjornaer Magus, from lab text (2 exposure in Muto)
+ Talpa: Copy and Illuminate *Beautiful Letters*. Exposure 2xp Scribe
+ Jenico visits Tiffany in Heorot (Verditius Lore +11)
+ Andreas Transcribes 100 levels of lab texts. Exposure 2xp in Latin
+ Claas practices painting
# Winter
+ Artal writes 100 spell levels (2 exposure in Magic Theory)
+ Jenico assists Typhannie in the lab (Exposure MT 2)
+ Talpa reads *Fons Vitae*
+ Claas prepares Artal's lab; Exposure 2xp Magic Theory
+ Andreas reads Mentem summa
