Chapter 10: The Wheel Turns

Steel after arrow hits Taft

The javelin pierces one of them, melting away with their heartsblood.

Note - Taft is still bleeding from Wound.

Health test against disease. B4 vs Ob3.

+ Persona

5d6 vs Ob3

Session recap:

Vasil went looking for help to build his forge. Found the watercarrier Akseli, who appears to be afflicted by some disease. There may be a plague brewing in Flodmynningstead. Dug a phenomenally good firepit - just really bloody top shelf, as firepits go. Sealed the insides with a clay slurry atop stones. Akseli is sleeping in the woodshed.

Shadow went to go warn the local populace of wolves. A retired Spirit Hunter leads them, sees Summer as a threat to be destroyed. Needed to convince this Longtooth of the dangers approaching. (What was the result of that roll? I don't remember, sorry!)

Taft and Summer, having seen the force approaching from the road, decided to continue their scouting mission. Running hard and long, they followed the road to its source. There, they ran into a patrol; armoured Tower troops. Taft sprung into action, throwing a spear of ice through the chest of one, while taking an arrow from the other, who promptly fainted, having seen his friend impaled.

Taft is seriously wounded - a Midi, and it's bleeding. Three weeks walk from his allies, Taft is in trouble.

Summer howls to the Moss, a mournful name comes from its lips, in a language that seems wholly natural, but completely inhuman.It then proceeds to Lick.

Ob4 Health - B5 - Using Persona.

Shadow is grooming itself. In the middle of licking its butthole, a thought strikes it like a javelin.

Akseli:

Hath not the (sickened) potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Interrogation Ob6 (because I'm learning): B6 +2D Summer's Help -1D Wounded (Failure Consequence - won't find out anything more)

Ugly Truth: Ob8 Perception B6 +2D Summer's Help -1D Wounded +1 Persona (Failure Consequence - leaving them to go will galvanize people in the reinforcing retinue, but town will be terrified.)

Vasil uses rudimentary tools to make real blacksmithing tools.

Blacksmith B5
Tools Wise, Materials Wise, Armouer, Weaponsmith, Fire Artifice, Fire Taming

Ob 4 (3 + 1)

Loads of additional successes. Used them to:

Finished early. Inscribed everything with the symbol of Pyre.

Shadow sniffs around the village, looking for the herby person they met two years ago and smelled nearby.

Session Recap:

Taft, wounded and bleeding binds the hands of the fainted Tower guard. He and Summer set to stopping his bleeding. Summer makes an enemy of the Bryophyta family, but successfully licks Taft's wound into submission.

After tending his wound as best they can (if it's protruding from Taft, snap the shaft), Taft sets to interrogating the bound Tower guard. It is revealed that Taft's name is known. Taft Silverhair, or Taft Silvertongue - a legend, a monster spoken of with awe. There was no convincing this man of Taft's humanity, or the wrongness of the Tower's ways, but Taft let him live regardless.

Meanwhile, Shadow spoke to the local wolves, reaching a stalemate with their Longtooth. The pack has been warned, but are not interested in meddling in human affairs. Some hole-action later, (firepit, and wolf anus, both), Shadow decided the sickness threatening the village was a priority that needed addressing. It went looking for a herbalist it had seen in its youth, finding not the one it expected, but an old man [name?] who turned out to be Alva's former Master, when she had been an apprentice. Together, they moved back to Flodmynningstead. It was also revealed that the Leshie, a trickster woods spirit has awoken from its winter slumber. It is angry.

Vasil continued the preparation of his forge. Helping Akseli to seal the inside of the pit, Vasil set to making the tools of his trade. He constructed a fine set of blacksmithing apparatus, marking each, and the forge itself with the sign of his patron spirit, Pyre.

The sickness continues to threaten Flodmynningstead, and to Vasil and Shadow, this seems the greatest looming danger. They still do not know of the great force headed towards them, nor of Taft's wounding. Will the healer be able to stop the spread of disease? Will Vasil be able to craft Vakkar a weapon sharp enough to cut through Spirit and Stone? Will Taft survive his wounds, deep within enemy territory?

Tune in next week to find out on Channelling the Wheel.

Clear the Cobwebs - Ob4 Health (B5) +2 Help from Summer

Ob4 Forte - to get to Flodminningstead: Failed - will take 7 days to get back.

(Linked to)

Ob4 Stealthy - to get past the guards.

Half the soldiers and scouts are returning to Tri with empty carts. The three in charge, the labourers, most of the dogs, are still there.

Shadow sniffs the blood and breath of this strange new human it has found. Is that the smell of... starlight? But how?

Vasil crafts a weapon for Vakkar, a one handed axe, capable of harming the spirits of the Tower.

Ob2 Weaponsmith - B2 + Blacksmith + Materials Wise + Fire Artifice, Firetaming, Tools-wise + Dedicated Trait Succeeded. Two above required. (Doubled)

Ob4 B3 Fire Artifice + Blacksmith, Weaponsmith + Dedicated Trait + 2 Persona Succeeded. One above requirement.

Vasil crafts a weapon of great quality, an axe capable of cutting animated stone. It is marked with the symbol of Pyre. Vukodlaksjekira