| Current Campaign: New Blood For An Old Sword | |
| Episode 5: "The Defenders of Eatonshire" | |
| Year: ? Season | |
| Location: Eatonshire | |
| PCs: Carlo of Treefall | |
| Previous Episode: "Trickery At Taros" | |
| Next Episode: "?" | |
| Previous Campaign: The Knights of Eaton | |
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NPC'sStoryAct OneThe Silent Wake docks in Kandorr, where House Croydan has set up a provisional government as Garn rules in exile from Erelaan, and Carlo leaves the employ of Artemis to journey to Eatonshire. Clay Chooser, Ambrose, Angus and Kamil travel with him. Valrick, a Taldorian orphan, trying to steal and invited him to join the travelers. Valrick stole Bancroft, Artimus' horse, and renamed it Rufus; this served to earn Valrick the favor of Carlo. The group rode off to Eatonshire in search of Carlo's children. Outside of Kandorr the men found a troop of slaughtered soldiers and knights; these were men headed to fortify Eatonshire against the mercenaries. One of the squires--Warren Windsor--was still alive and the Clay aced him in Artimus' magical pavilion to recuperate. In Greendale the crew met Shogaurd, a smalltime merchant and brother of Cromwell. The group set out to Eatonshire with a band of hired mercenaries led by the orc Redpike. Along the way they were joined by a cleric of Calahmere named Gabrial. Outside of Eatonshire the band met with fleeing serfs and Carlo was given more information about his childrens' whereabouts. A team of would-be brigands attacked but was frightened off by Gabrial's magic. That evening the PC's discovered the Hanging Gardens: large trees which the mercenaries hung of Eatonshiran nobles, freemen, and soldiers. They reached Eatonshire and found it nearly empty of life. The city was being run by Kane Simonson and his team of errant knights. The drunk chamberlain insulted Carlo and the two dueled; Carlo killed the chamberlain and Kane recruited Carlo as captain of his guard. As the days passed, a large band of mercenaries set camp outside of the city and demanded total surrender. Their only terms were: We'll let you live and we'll sack the city. The PC's sent a skull spirit out that evening and the mercenary leader was killed; he was replaced by Captain Krinlogue, a hard-line and merciless soldier. Krinlogue wished to begin the siege. Valrick was dispatched to assassinate the Captain, but he was killed and his head was catapulted back into the city. Carlo began a campaign to train every able body in the city. On the second week a surprise siege breached the city and everyone fell back to the castle. Kane and Gabrial were killed in this siege. Desperate for an edge over the mercenaries, Ambrose initiated a an to conjure a dimensional servant or an angel of Eliahn using Gabriel's sword. His spell backfired miserably and a powerful demon arrived. Ambrose was killed, along with 86 others before the demon was killed. The siege was finally successful and Carlo, Jarthul, and Clay were imprisoned and sent to a slave ship with the other survivors; it was revealed that Artimus was taken prisoner when he traveled to Eatonshire and he was aced on the vessel, too. Redpike managed to escape and he fled to Elkor with the surviving members of his mercenary unit. |