Waleran catches Geoffrey with a glancing blow. Joust tilt 1: Lance, tn 14 : 1d20 2 Geurriere's body, however, is a powerful thing, and the force behind the blow is terrible. That Destrier Damage : 8d6 34 This is more than double Geoffrey's Size of 15, so Geoffrey is unseated. Waleran de Beaumont win...

Earl Waleran is not so unfortunate, however, and is able to catch Sir William in the shield.
Joust tilt 1: Lance, tn 14: 1d20 3


Get wrecked, William: 8d6 39

Everyone in the crowd could feel the force of that hit.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be Ranulf de Blondeville's day, for Waleran de Beaumont angles his lance just so, and trouble ensues. Joust tilt 1: Lance, tn 14 : 1d20 14 That there's a critical hit. Oh my God, I hope he doesn't just kill him! : 8d6 29 After armor soak of 14, He takes 15 damage, l...

Waleran--or the man you thought was Waleran's jaw drops in shock and confusion. Indeed there is much confusion around the place, with men rising and shouting their amazement and dismay across the stands.

The new man turns his horse and levels a challenge. "Sirs, this man before us is an imposter!" he calls out from beneath his helmet. "For he claims and has claimed my identity from the time I had taken the cross, deceiving my relations and spending my wealth on charity to ease the guilt in his soul....

Perhaps no one is more surprised than the man already in the Helm Show, for his eyebrows have risen up to meet his hairline, and his cheeks have gotten splotchy purple.

What in the lake of infernal fire is THIS!?

That's when this happens:

A man of middling height, with a light frame and fair arms and armor, rides up to the helm show on a powerful horse. A hush settles over the crowd, for this helmeted knight is also clad in the livery of the Earl of Warwick.

Not long after Margaret's arrival, cousin Waleran de Beaumont strides up to the staging area, his helm tucked under his shoulder. He is not the most imposing of knights, but he is an important one nonetheless, and there is a lightness to his step that sets him apart from the heavy tramp of some of t...

A short time after Waleran de Beaumont leaves, another man bearing his heraldry steps up to the table. The herald does a double-take. "My lord, is their something I can do for you?" "Well, yes, I'd like to put my name down for the joust." "My lord, we...already have you down. You...you were here, ju...

Although at first he walks right past the Mermaid. "They couldn't be in there! They wouldn't!!" He eventually finds his way inside. The Earl is marked down for the joust without comment just as soon as the money is passed over. Registration: Recognize roll, TN 14 : 1d20 20 Recognize roll #2, tn 14 :...

Waleran de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, having arrived in Westminster alongside his cousin in the vast train that constituted the Beaumont entourage, has long ago found his seat near the front of the gathered nobles. He is a man of 36, average in height, and has none of the aura of terror that some of...