The Winter Phase includes character maintenance. Please do the following: 1. Experience Checks Characters spend some of the winter reflecting back over the year that has gone by. This process is simulated using an “experience roll.” Throughout game play during the game’s summer season, potential imp...

Players are permitted to deploy the Winter Phase rules from the core book on their characters.

The game is otherwise ended. Go in peace.

Great Offices of State Lord Chancellor [Geoffrey fitzHenry]: Giles de Braose [d'Aubigny] Lord High Treasurer [Richard fitzNeal]: Geoffrey of Tournemine [de Blondeville] Lord Great Chamberlain [Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford]: [Robert Whitehands] Lord High Constable [Henry de Bohun]: Henry de Boh...

Pursuing the stag is less challenging than you might have expected. Certainly less than tracking the bear. In fact, the magnificent beast seems to pause at the top of ridges in the woods to allow you to draw closer before dipping into the vale on the other side. In no time, you are sure you are abso...

Wandering with intent through the woods is always a dangerous thing, particularly if one happens to lose one's way. Just as Giles is beginning to feel that he has lost his way entirely, that the fearsome bear might just find him before he found it, he catches sight of a flash of white. Well, no bear...

35 Glory to Team de Mandeville, of which Geoffrey de Tournemine receives 13.

Character name (# of segments completed) Rank Six (report to The Kill!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank Five (so close, you can almost smell him!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

You see him! The mighty beast of the forest trundles through the undergrowth, thinking that he has shaken his pursuers, but you have out-foxed him! Step One: The First Blow The first character on the scene may make one free attack, as long as he can close to melee distance (1 yard) or has a missile ...

Weather: the false summer continues for a third day, though the evening is gusty in the third degree.

Events
EM-?: Whoso List to Hunt..

EA: Other Lions, Other Rooms

Event Rules This is a roleplay event in which characters may attempt to sway the crowd to back William of Brunswick's coup de main to take back Henry the Lion's patrimony from Frederick Barbarossa, or may instead argue against it. The first position to have 6 successful rolls in support of it will b...

This is a Roleplay Event for up to 4 characters. It has been much remarked upon, the surfeit of lions here at court. Richard Lionheart, William the Lion of Justice, and the cubs of Henry the Lion have all passed their time on the stage here. The first two have roared from time to time; Richard boldl...

The wide forests to the south of the Thames have beckoned the courageous and bold men of England and France to the hunt. A famous noble pastime, the Hunt has claimed its share of lives from accident, misadventure, and murder. Fortunately, there is little reason to expect such tragedy here today, as ...

"What? Well, well, well, so they are..." And she is gone, forcing a way through the crowd that creates enough distraction for the Mayor to bring the Master of Merchants, the knights, the Master of the Bakers Guild, the Earls, and Giles de Braose into Richard Redvers' boat. It is cramped. It is uncom...

There is a pause, and then a massive intake of breath and a shout: "GET THE--!" "Wait a minute!" someone interrupts. "That kid is really shiny! Obviously everything he says is true!" "That doesn't make any sense!" "Sure it does! When have you every met a person that clean, excepting he was known to ...

The Mayor nods. "Alright. Alright." He then turns back to the crowd. "Our efforts have been vindicated!" "Vindi-what-ed? Wozzat, some sort of fancy way of saying shat on?" "Sounds sort of like Wind-icated. Maybe they farted on our legitimate grievances!" "AAAAARGH! I AM GENERALLY ANGRY ABOUT MANY FA...

The Mayor frowns. "I do appreciate your assurances. And yes, it had occurred to me that we might face difficulty over this, but sometimes the people need to take action to be heard. I'm sure you can understand that."

"That sounds ideal," the Abbot says.

Wulfstan agrees. "Certainly the best plan I've heard so far."

"Stuff the council!" comes a quickly hushed cry from the crowd. The Mayor winces. "Look, we haven't got a lot of traction from councilors in the past. We were really hoping that the king would give us some time, but his councilor sent me packing on three occasions. We're getting tired of paying what...

"Perhaps, yes. King Richard may have had little love for his father, but I imagine it remains a touchy subject."

"In which case it had better come from you, Andre," says the Prior. "He is suspicious enough of the Canons, and the Abbot cannot compromise his impartiality." "Save perhaps in writing a letter recommending Andre's services, provided, of course, that I get some understanding of what you intend to pre...

"He won't see it as an attempt at usurpation of a royal prerogative?" the Abbot asks.

"So we need to lever Mr. de Braose into the Chancellor's seat and codify the laws," Wulfstan summarizes. "And all before Richard convenes the council in a week."

The Master of the Merchants replies. "Well, the tax 'as always been since King William came from France, but it's only s'posed to be for the King's Family when they're in residence at the Tower, but only from th'one pier, and even then only enough to feed 'em. The Sheriff's been collecting it on all...

"But there's no Justiciar. Who would do this?"

"So what is the solution, sir?" asks Wulfstan.

The Mayor speaks quietly. "It's not the relocation. No, see, the Sheriff of London gets to live in the Tower, and there's a special tax on grain that gets sold on the City's grain pier, to feed the King and his family when they're in residence, see. That's the issue."

"It's more the principle," Wulfstan objects. "The elections must be respected, and the independence of the Church maintained. This is what Thomas a Becket suffered martyrdom for." The Abbot frowns. "I think Brother Wulfstan's Canterbury Canons speak with passion because they know what it is to have ...

"You're damn right!" comes a shout from the crowd. The mayor raises his hands for calm. It's the Baker's guild head that speaks up. "We've been trying to get a message through to the King, but you lot up there in Westminster don't have an ear for honest folk! No! So it's pay up no matter what the ba...

"Hear, hear" says William, quite pleased with the situation, himself. Nichole smiles, the Duchess simply watches you out of the corner of her eye.

"A sound legal argument and a friendly word in the king's ear would not go amiss," the Prior ventures. Wulfstan nods his cautious agreement. "We've been working to get Baldwin removed by the Pope, but the word we've gotten about Pipewell is that King Richard expects canons from all the cathedrals to...