So tonight, and this week, we have another adventure inspired by a song and we kick off with The King and His Men. What would someone do for love is a question that gets asked often, but not many people would go this far.
So sit back, grab a coffee as we listen to the plea of a broken heart in tonight’s adventure!
When the rumours of the queen of Blotvia reach the party they set off to hear the kings plea for aid. But what they hear, what they discover and what they see leave them with more questions than answers.
Time is running short and they soon find themselves in danger with no way of fighting back. What will come of the party or the kingdom if they don’t act quickly, with discretion and without committing the most heinous of crimes – treason.
The King and His Men
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The party were shown into a long hall as the guards escorted them towards the kings meeting hall. Fine tapestries and several portraits of the young king and his wife hung from the walls revealed how truly happy and in love they were. The party had heard that the queen had become erratic, irrational and extremely aggressive where the king had ordered no maid or manservant to tend to her lest they suffer her ire.
Yet the portraits did not show the queen in such light, that’s where the king had sent out requests via the guilds in the land for anyone who could to come and assist him in an urgent quest. With the state of the queen and the kings call for aid from adventurers rather than his own guard made the situation very clear to the party – there was something wrong with the queen.
As they stood by the doors they heard the stamping of feet and cursing from the other side of the door. Moments later it opened to reveal another group of four adventurers, much like their own group, being shown out of the kings hall and towards the front gate of the castle. The two adventuring parties exchanged glances before the calmest of the lot mouthed ‘good luck‘ before the party were ushered into the hall.
Before them was a large room that as opulently decorated that led to a few cushioned chairs that sat around a table. In the furthest seat the King sat with a few guards standing a few feet behind him looking sternly at the party. ‘Please, come sit.’ the young king asked and gestured warmly enough that the party, encouraged, took a seat before the king.
‘Yes, I have a good feeling about you. Something in your eyes unlike those we just sent out speaks volumes of trustworthiness.’ he began, the guards that had escorted them through the castle breathed a deeper sigh of relief. ‘I have a urgent question, something of such magnitude and secrecy that I can’t trust any one else other than those in this room with the details of the rest.’ he paused to study their faces. Convinced he thoughtfully nodded before pouring himself a cup of tea.
‘My wife is with child, the next heir to the kingdom of Blotvia is growing steadily within my wife’s belly and I could not be more overjoyed.’ his face was a mixture of emotion, part joy and hope the other crushing despair. ‘However, she,’ he paused stirring his tea, ‘is not feeling herself as of late. I have had the best physicians, healers and sages in the land try to work out what’s going on and we believed that we had cured what had ailed her. A disease which has now retreated fully from her body which we can rest in peace knowing will not rear its ugly head again.’ he paused looking nervous.
‘But since the cure she has become unsettled, aggressive even which is not something that anyone would expect from my beloved Lorel. You may have heard the rumours and I can say that many of them are untrue. However I have requested that our maids and manservants do not enter her chamber without guards or myself as there was an incident where she attacked a manservant and bit him quite severely. He said that she was acting more like an Animal than a person but the moment that he called for help she came to her senses, screamed for him to leave her and retreated to her bed. He has been receiving healing from our surgeons but he may be a good place to start as I don’t believe that Lorel would act like that.’
He looked nervously at them. ‘As her health and her aggression appear to be tied I fear for our child as well. I could not love another as I do Lorel nor can I bare the thought of her being in pain or sick. So I need to find out what is causing this temporary affliction and cure it before it affects her, our child or someone else gets hurt.’
‘Oh, before you ask. The court healer did not tell me but she has passed all checks, magical and mundane to show that she is now disease free in case you were concerned you may contract something.’
Thanks for visiting for another start of the week adventure kick off night with the King and His Men. Inspired by a song that gets sung way too frequently by the household this weeks adventure is a race against the clock before it turns into a murder mystery. Don’t forget that this is just the start of the week so make sure you don’t forget to come back each day this week to stay up to date with the adventure. And lastly, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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