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The Sword Campaign S1 E4: A Pendragon Actual Play Podcast
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Sir Hystalwyn and Sir Ian meet Merlin, the robed figure from their vision at Stonehenge. As King Lot denies Arthur’s claim and vows to return with force, the crowd rallies, hailing Arthur as king. But at Carlion, where Arthur’s coronation is to take place, northern lords launch an assault. Now the Salisbury knights must prove their valor in battle, defending their new king and his throne.
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Welcome to Stories with Dice. This is the Sword Campaign, a Pendragon actual play podcast using the sixth edition starter set from
Introduction to the Sword Campaign
SPEAKER_00Chaosium. If you're enjoying our actual plays, please subscribe to Stories with Dice so you'll never miss an episode. Don't forget to rate and review us, it really helps others discover the podcast. Follow us on social media to stay updated, share your thoughts, and join the conversation. You'll find the relevant links in the description of each episode. Last time, on the sword campaign, Sir Karadoc publicly accused Sir Blaines of treachery, only for Sir Blaines to demand justice through trial by combat. The duel ended in defeat for Sir Karadoc, leaving Count Robert to decide his punishment for falsely accusing a fellow knight. Meanwhile, King Leon de Granz invited Count Robert, Sir Ian, and Sir Histalwin to join the tournament. However, the contest was abruptly halted by cries that the sword and the stone had been drawn. Rushing to the scene they discovered a young squire had pulled the sword free. As our Salisbury knights knelt with their lord before the boy king, Sir Histolin and Sir Ian noticed the mysterious robe figure from their visioness stone hens. With reverence Sir Histalwin declared, I think we found our sapling. Scene opens on Count Robert, Sir Ian, Sir Histelwin, and Sir Caradoc, all kneeling before the young squire who had drawn the sword from the stone. On the edge of the gathered crowd, a robed figure watches in silence. No beardless boy shall ever be my king, bellows King Lot. Nor mine someone else shouts. Lot's gaze fixes on Leo de Grants. What say you? King Leodegrance and his knights step forward, positioning themselves between Lot and the rightful heir. The boy drew the sword, Leodegrance declares. By right he is our king. King Lot mounts his horse, sneering I'll be back with force of arms. His guards are only a step behind, spurring their mounts and scattering the crowd as they go. Others follow, and the centurion king's voice rises above the commotion. I'll not kneel to a whelp who scarcely left his mother's apron strings. A murmur of disapproval ripples through the crowd, as the northern kings and their knights
The Duel's Aftermath
SPEAKER_00ride away. Hail, King Arthur, cries Sir Ector, raising his sword on high. Hail King Arthur, the crowd answers, their voices rising in unison. Hail King Arthur. So what would you like to do?
SPEAKER_02Guess I'll stay for as long as as our lord does. Okay. As long as Count Robert stays, I will stay. If he continues to stay kneeling, I'll keep an eye out from the corner of my eye and I'll stay kneeling. If if he decides to just mill around to want to speak to the boy, then we'll do the same thing. We'll just well for me I'm gonna just do that.
SPEAKER_00So Arthur is asking everyone to go to the feasting tables and to to to enjoy a meal and to discuss the future. So the so Count Robert is is walking off with him and Sir Ector and other knights to the to the feasting table. And a lot of the commoners are moving that way, and a lot of the other knights and King Lear de Grants and all of those folks are moving that way. So Zartha going that way as well?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay. I will probably glance at Sir Histelwin in that case. Mm-hmm. And then glance towards the float figure. That's yeah, that's where my vision is as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so yeah, and he's just sort of standing there watching everything.
SPEAKER_02So Ian I was thinking of going and seeing what our friend from Division might have to say about all this. You can accompany me or or stay with Count Robert? I am convicted, Sir Cristalin. I would like to go and find out more about this strange man, but also I feel like I should accompany the Lord and the new king, or if that's what we'll be calling him. I I don't know. I look at Sir Caradoc who's obviously on the palicon or whatever he's in. Sir Caradoc, what what are you doing?
SPEAKER_01I think in my condition, some drinking and good eating could make me good without leaving our lord alone, of course. But you know. I I'm useless in reasonable. I look like a shame.
SPEAKER_02You can see that I'm sorry, it's very much unsure what to do, and he's just now now one person's going one way, the other group's go the other person's going the other way. He's kind of like stuck in between. So I guess he'll just kind of wait in between the two lots to kind of wait for Histelwin to go and speak to the person, and then we'll go back later on.
SPEAKER_00What's Count Robert
The Feast Begins
SPEAKER_00doing? Count Robert is following Arthur and all the other knights to the feasting tables.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so we'll go with Count Robert.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So the squires assist you in going with Count Robert and Arthur back to the feasting tables. Okay, so Sir Histelwin, you're approaching the the cloaked man.
SPEAKER_02If Sir Ian's still standing there hesitating Sir Sir Ian, even your saints have visions. Maybe it's not that strange for you. Sure, I'll let you do the talking though. He's your people. Yep. So yeah, I'll head up to the stranger.
SPEAKER_00Good evening to you, sir. Good day to you, sir. Saudi, I uh I don't even know what uh what time of day it is. Pardon me, sir, but me and my friend here I believe we saw you in a vision. Official, you said. Sounds mighty important. And what was it this vision?
SPEAKER_02It was the prose circling, it was all ominous. There was a great oak and a young sapling below it, and I believe your voice told us we had to decide on whether to nurture the new sapling or maintain the corrupt great oak, and we had a decision to make about it.
SPEAKER_00And have you decided? I believe we have. I believe you have as well. Well then, that's wonderful. Shall we go to the feast? But I was wondering who exactly who are you? I've gone by many names, walked this earth for many years. More years than I can count. More years than you've been breathing. Merlin, they call me. At least that's what they call me now. There's a faint recognition in from tales gone by in Histowin's eye.
Meeting the Mysterious Merlin
SPEAKER_00Well, to the feast, walk along with us. I would be happy to. So you're walking along with them to the feast, and there's still a couple of stragglers, they're tit they're breaking down their tents, gathering all their belongings. Most of the knights and kings up in the north are the ones who refuse to kneel to King Arthur. And one of them sees you walking with Merlin, and he shouts, Merlin, what trickery is this? We have not forgotten you Then he spits on the ground. You have not seen the last of us and then he he rides off with his men. And Merlin just sort of chuckles, and my my this Merlin fellow is sounds awful important.
SPEAKER_02I kind of chuckles myself, great. We've got a slightly old, decrepit man. He's obviously slightly off his rocker. Great, yeah. There's a there's a bit more reverence coming from Historic.
SPEAKER_00So you get to the tables, and Arthur is already you know, he's deep in conversation with the archbishop, and they're talking about where to have the coronation, and the archbishop's he's the he he's advocating that they go to Carleon, the seat of of the Archbishop of Britain, and that they should have it there. And Arthur seems amenable to that. People seem at ease, especially a lot of the common folk. You know, you hear whisperings of of people hoping that now that they have a king, they'll have a lasting peace, that the anarchy will be over, and that the lands can be united once again. And then King Arthur he turns to Sir Karadoc and he sees you sort of in your sorry state. We must have someone take care of this man's injuries. Surely one of you great men here have men talented in in such skill. And King Lear de Grant says that uh his men will take care of you. And and so they they take you to the chapel in town at in the little hamlet, and and they and they tend to your wounds and uh and then su you know, suggest that you they give you a lot of wine, suggest that you sleep and rest and and take it easy for uh at least a few weeks. I will keep that advice. And uh Sir Blaine's is nowhere to be seen to this day. Uh the Duke of Silchester is is still here, and you know, he you you do see him and and Count Robert having a bit of a discussion about Sir Karadoc and Sir Blaine, and and it's a little bit heated. Count the Count sort of, much to your surprise, it's like he's found his spine and and he's sort of holding his own against the Duke, you know, tells him he hasn't made a decision yet on what on what Sir Karadoc's fate will be for the accusation that he made. But what is certain is that many of his household knights were murdered on the road to St. Albans, and then again an attempt was made, and you three saved his life, so he will take that into consideration when he makes his decision to as to Sir Karadoc's fate, and there is still the matter of this conspiracy against him that must be looked into. And so the Duke side of sort of huffs a little bit and walks away. And then the rest of the day goes by, and then in the morning, a herald delivers the news to you that that the that Arthur has made his decision and that he will lead a grand procession to Carleon, and there he will be crowned king, and you and Count Robert are are to join in the long line of dukes and barons and lesser kings and all the other nobility to ride
A Royal Decision
SPEAKER_00with him, and they're leaving that day. So uh and they have a they have a wagon for those who are injured, so so Karadoc will be in the wagon, and as you're leaving St. Albans, crowds have gathered and they're cheering for the boy king, who they hope is going to bring peace to Britain. And this journey takes you about two weeks. You leave St. Albans, you pass through Londinium, and you cross the river to Windsor, and then you move on to Silchester, and there Duke Ulfius hosts this great feast for everyone. And then the procession the next day continues winding through the land, through several other little towns. You cross the Sevran River and you travel several more days until you finally arrive to the city of Carleon. And there all these other lords have arrived from various parts of Britain who had not attended the tournament, and they're there to pay homage to the king. The Supreme Collegium, which is a gathering of nobles, have declared Arthur the High King. But then the celebrations are cut short as six northern lords march on the city in battle formation. And Arthur orders the gates of the castle closed and to prepare for a siege. And as the northern forces sack the outer villages, he realizes over the next day and a half or two days that he can't hide behind walls, and he orders all of his knights to
The March to Battle
SPEAKER_00prepare. He calls you to battle, and it is time to defend Arthur's crown. Who has a decent battle skill?
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm not sure if it's decent, but it's it is a skill.
SPEAKER_00I'm on my skill is ten.
SPEAKER_01There you go.
SPEAKER_00Sir Ian, you are going to be the Conroy commander. So a Conroy is a like a unit of knights on the battlefield. The first thing we're going to do is generate your your morale. Ed, I'm going to need you to keep track of it since you're the commander here. I will grab a pen and paper to do that. You're all guided by mutual passion, and you can decide what that is. They all have to be in the same court. So fervor, fidelitas, honor. Fidelitas is usually the one that you would use, probably homage or loyalty. I think homage for Count Robert is probably the one for all whoops. Right, because you're you're also essentially flying his banner, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we don't want to kind of dishonor his name and our town and our kingdom.
SPEAKER_00Right. And he's he's on the battlefield with another Conroy of Salisbury Knights, but he's not among among you. So what you'll do is you'll add up your the values of all three of your homage count, Robert.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Four of me.
SPEAKER_02Well one second. Fourteen. Okay. Fourteen, eighteen, and nineteen for me.
SPEAKER_00Steve Sebasti. Fi 51 divided by three is seventeen. Okay, so that's the average. So that's your that's your morale. So you're going to have to the morale. So the yep. So the morale is going to come into play in the combat, in the battle, when you have encounters. So this is an encounter card, and it'll on the bottom it says the minimum morale value that you need. So like this one, for example, is 13. And each time so the the encounters are representative of like a moment in time within this larger battle. Uh and each each time you have one, your morale will go down. At certain moments during the battle, the best thing for you may be to retire to the rear to recoup, heal, gain, regain your morale so that you can go back out and and face your face your foes once again. So we have our morale. I was gonna say it does say add five if you all use the same passion. You're right. I forgot about that. So add five to that seventeen. 17 is our base ballot, actually. 22. Okay, so the default encounter for our first battle turn is going to be the Knights of Lothian. Oh, okay. Now I'm gonna roll against the intensity value of this battle. Okay. The roll succeeds. So basically, if I had failed, you would be able to each make a battle roll, and if your battle roll succeeded, you'd be able to scan the battlefield. You'll be able to sort of see, like, oh, there's guys coming up on our flank, there's this happening over here, and then make it make a tactical decision. So these are knights from King Lot's kingdom. They're quite well known to be fearsome fighters. So yeah, so you're in the you're in the in the field in front of the castle, the castle is under attack, they've already sacked some of the outlying villages. So you're gonna lose three morale in this
The First Combat Engagement
SPEAKER_00encounter. So the first battle turn is always a mounted lance charge. So everyone selects mounted charge as your action for the very first combat round of the encounter. And you can only choose reckless or valorous postures. So the Do we have to do this as a group or can we as individual that we would pick our postures? You can pick your postures individually. I'm gonna make a roll for reckless. And then that that also determines how many how many rounds you fight in the in the encounter.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Take into account that I was injured and everything, I will try to be more on the back, not so forward, I guess.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Well, I failed my reckless, so so I I'm not gonna I'm I kinda can't take a check. I'm not gonna be reckless and and just rush off. I've got a group. Uh, we're gonna stick to our fighting group, and we're gonna fight Valorous.
SPEAKER_00You're all fighting in a valorous posture then, so that means we have two combat rounds. If your valorous trait hasn't been checked yet, you can check it now. And now we begin. We begin the combat. And you're all doing a mounted charge as your first action. So, Ian, make your mounted charge roll.
SPEAKER_02Do I get to do the same thing as with a regular combat? Can I check my my homage to give me a bonus? Yep. Okay. I will do I will do that then as my first thing. Okay, yep. Pass that. So you have plus five. And that's the only time this entire battle you'll be able to do that. That's fine. So I will do that. You know, we're going out there, we're kind of like going for it. Let's see how well I do.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I got a success. He has a partial success, yeah. Okay, so roll you damage. So he gets a total of twenty-three. I was like, charge into him. Twenty-three. I ride full gallop. And he's riding forward, his lance just totally misses you, and you you you hit you hit him in the shoulder, but he kind of shrugs it off as as he's he's riding his horse around from the second pass on you. Uh Sir Caradoc. Will charge. So Hermanship, I guess. Uh no, you're doing Charge? Charge, yep. 11 critical. Very, very nice. Okay. Uh let me roll his and see what he gets. He has a partial success, okay. Roll your damage. And you're adding plus four dice to your damage, to your normal damage, because you have a critical.
SPEAKER_01So that's six plus four, that would be ten. Then d6, and that's it. No, it's not lens, yeah. 106. Yep. Lance. Oh my god, this is gonna hurt, I guess. How much damage? 34.
SPEAKER_02Ah.
SPEAKER_01You were lucky with the ones.
SPEAKER_00Sort about the death if you don't have the armor. So you've knocked him off his horse, he goes flying off his horse, and you've given him a very significant major wound. He's lying on the ground, his horse is just sort of rode off. One thing that you can do in battles is you can capture opponents, and and then when the battle is over, you get ransoms for them. Right. Let's give this a go. Oh no. Take a hit. Yes, you do. I think I did the damage wrong, but I'm just gonna run with it. So you take nine damage, Sir Histoline, and you can deduct your armor from that. But not your shield. Well, your armor's ten, so your armor just absorbed all of it. Alright.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, a bit of a judder. And I'm struggling to stay in the saddle, but yeah. Yeah, the two of you charge at each other. Your lance misses him, but his his connects with you sort of square in the chest, but maybe your armor gets a little dented. Maybe you almost sort of lose your balance a little bit on your saddle, but you're still in it. You're still on the horse. Next combat round, Sir Ian.
SPEAKER_02I'm I just want to double check. I'm just reading that if it's it did I get a partial success last time? Or was that a normal success for me and a partial success for him? It was a normal success for you and partial for him. Okay, cool. Just check because it says on a partial success, a spear, lance, or other hearted weapon breaks on a mounted charge. Oh, so his weapon broke. Okay, understood. So it's yeah, so his lance smashed off my shield. Okay. Well, I'm gonna I guess if I've if I've kind of engaged in combat, I passed him by, presumably I'm avoiding anyone who's on foot and stuff like that. I will turn around or I will engage with someone else, but I'll probably drop my lance, I guess, or or or would I keep it until like we've I've seen we've all dropped our lances.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well he so his his lance broke during your last engagement, and so he pulls out his sword as he's turning around for another for another pass at you.
SPEAKER_02I'm I'm vaguely honourable, so I probably do the same thing. I'll drop I'll drop my lance and draw my sword and close in on him with my sword. Okay. Cool. Well in that case I shall have another go at him, but this time with my sword, which I think. Might work. So I will use my sword. Oh yes, I succeed? Uh with a five. That's a failure. Give me your damage. Uh so fourteen damage. Wow, you didn't as we colour. I guess we're now circling our horses and just going in toe-to-toe.
SPEAKER_00Your sword connects and you're just bashing against his armor and and he's trying to parry with his sword, but but but he failed miserably.
SPEAKER_02Probably putting all my strength and my my imposing sides into just babstering it down.
SPEAKER_01Sir Kara Doc. That will go around with my hordes and turn around and then pace this guy there and so one damage. It's a history.
SPEAKER_02Right. I'll turn and raise my lance in a signal to the guy I've just battled with, and if he raises his lance to indulge, we can turn him again. So yeah, we'll just go again. No.
SPEAKER_00You're having a very bad battle night. Yeah, that's four damage. You've got one knight on the ground who has suffered a major wound. The other three are still up in fighting, but it says that you fight for two combat rounds. You do have the opportunity, I believe, to fight one more round, but you both have to you have to roll an energetic and valorous role to succeed if you wanted to s to fight one more round against
The Chaos of Battle
SPEAKER_00these guys.
SPEAKER_02I'm probably more likely happy to like call it quits at this level.
SPEAKER_01It follows. So you we follow you if you quit. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you follow the commander.
SPEAKER_00He's in charge.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so yeah, we engage them and then move on to whatever the next thing is.
SPEAKER_00So presumably like Right, because it's chaos, right? There's just like men fighting everywhere. It's total chaos, screaming, people dying, people getting hurt. So those they go on to their own other people, we go on to our other people, and you just kind of keep moving along the battlefield. These are meant to represent sort of like snapshots of dramatic moments. So keep also keep keep track for me, if you don't mind, the number of of uh combat turns or battle turns. So we're moving on to the second battle turn, and you see Sir Ian, Saxon warriors, but then also coming up on your left are Knights of Cornwall. I'm gonna make the intensity roll. And I succeeded. So you will confront Saxon warriors.
SPEAKER_02See, how much do I hate the Saxons? No, that's fine. I hate the Saxons more than I hate the um the others. That's fine. Yeah. I think the Cornish hate me, but I hate the Cornish hate me too, so it's fine. We're caught between the two.
SPEAKER_00So these are a fierce band of seasoned, armored Saxon warriors, and there are two of them for each of you.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Now, did any of you want to have your squire pull that badly wounded knight of Lothian as a prisoner off the battlefield? Karadoc. He was fighting Sir Karadoc. I kill mine.
SPEAKER_01Ah, the one that they put down. Yeah. Why not?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so make a squire role for me. So yes, thanks that's so your squire has pulled him off the battlefield and he is now a prisoner. Bonnie. I want to be rich. I want to be rich.
SPEAKER_02You hope he's famous, right?
SPEAKER_00Sir Ian, what is your what is the morale of your Conway? We are currently now at 19. Okay, good.
SPEAKER_02The minimum morale here is eight. Still good to go.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02I like that. So as the battle progresses, it shifts and changes based on what's going on. And then I guess at some point we'll be like, no, we're not fighting anymore, we're out of here.
SPEAKER_01But I'm afraid in this one, I do hate Saxons. I mean, nothing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, absolutely. I would make that passion roll right now, but I've already made my passion roll.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so the those of you who have a hate Saxon passion can make that roll if you so choose. So these knights are on foot. I mean these knights, these warriors are on foot. And they're making if you if you make a mounted charge against them, they they will defend themselves Do they have spears? Using a shield wall.
SPEAKER_02Can I make a battle roll for that? Yeah, you can. And that'll determine why I think she do you see if I another goes terribly wrong. Okay, I failed.
SPEAKER_00Um never mind. Yeah, so in the in the rush of battle, you think they have axes? Okay. But you're not you're not really sure everything's happening so very fast. So what is your so what's your posture, and then what's your each of your combat actions going to be? Okay, well, I'll take suggestions.
SPEAKER_02What do you guys want to do? Well, they're more than us, right? They're they're more than us, but we're so we should be valorous.
SPEAKER_01I think let's be conservative. Okay. And I definitely think we should make a charge to try to disperse them with the lances. Yeah. I mean if they don't have any la lances or spears, I would say, yeah. I mean this That's why you said, no, that they have axes. Oh, let's go for it.
SPEAKER_02They've got axes, so yeah, let's just go for it. Would I have got my lance, my my lance back, or would I have left it on the battlefield? Your squire would have handed you another, I suspect. Make a squire roll. Yeah, that yeah, you do use squire one to see if you get it, yeah. Oh he's to see if he's actually useful for a change.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_00Yep, so he's he's uh he he grabbed your your he either grabbed your lance or he provided you with a fresh one. Yep, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02Okay, which case it's a it's a wedge-shaped shot uh charge at these uh these the this group ahead of us. So you're gonna lose you're gonna lose four morale for this one. Four. Jeez, okay. Uh down to 15, yeah. Rah charge, lances at the ready, mounted combats straight in. Let's break them up, shall we? I think we get a bonus because they're on foot and we're we're we're we're mounted.
SPEAKER_00Yep. And those of you, if you want, the since Sarian has already made a passion roll, the two of you who have not can make passion rolls if you have saxons. Yep. And ace. Okay, so you get a plus five to your combat role. Sir Fistowin, do you have a hate saxon?
SPEAKER_02I do, but I'm not gonna engage it because I was a little bit shaken by my last engagement. Sir Ian. Guess we're gonna go straight for the middle. You go for this wonderful person here.
SPEAKER_01Managed up to the one next time you while cutting through the center.
SPEAKER_02Shield, because we're just gonna go through them and then carry on. That'll be the plan. Let's go for a charge. For honor and lust. Honor and lust. You go back in. That's amazing. Anyone listening? That was the plan we wanted to call it, but you know. Yeah. Marco said no. I like it. I succeed. Very good. They're without all the spears, and we just basically impale ourselves on the Saxons. So let's just hope they're not setting against the charge. He gets a negative five because you're on horseback.
SPEAKER_00They get a negative as well as our positive.
SPEAKER_01They get that negative because we are mounted.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they they get a negative because they're because you guys are on horseback. They are not, and they are not. Okay, so he he has a partial success here. So I'm uh ride into him. And you're doing both of them at the are you doing both of them? Because you can attack multiple opponents at the same time. Are you doing both of those guys? Well well, with a lance. Well, you're So something you're you're you're charging through the shield wall, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so one of them would get one of them would get like horse damage, the other one would get the lance damage, right? Okay, yeah, that yeah, sure. That that exactly. Okay, so let me roll for the other guy. Okay, so they both have a partial success, both of these guys. So give me your lance damage on one of them. Arms damage.
SPEAKER_02Twenty-five for the lance. T five. My horse does three d6 damage, and he does or she does thirteen damage.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so this guy here has suffered a major wound. He's knocked down. You just knocked him flat onto his, you've knocked him flat onto his back, and yeah, he's he's doesn't look like he's getting up anytime soon. Getting up anytime. Thirteen from a horse. Thirteen from the horse, okay. Now remind me, when they get the partial success, you deduct the armor plus the shield, or is it only the shield? Uh that's a good question.
SPEAKER_02I will go to the thing. So characters combat our whole opponent was a partial success. Opponent suffers damage minus armor and shield. Minus armor and shield. Okay.
SPEAKER_00He's pushed to the side, but he's still uh he's still in fighting shape. So Keradoc.
SPEAKER_01I will just go through. Thirteen. So success at twenty for the Lance. For the second one is thirteen.
SPEAKER_00So similar to Sir Ian, this guy's been sort of knocked back, but still in fighting shape. What was the damage on this one? Twenty damage.
SPEAKER_01Lance was twenty.
SPEAKER_00Yep. Okay, so this guy has been knocked down, he's knocked prone. You've just knocked him flat on his back. His swin, it's all down to you now, sir. It's all down to you, sir. Let's give it a go then. That is a failure. The other guy is also a failure. Give us your damage. It's a fumble, too, yes. So his um twenty-four. So his this guy here, as you charge through their shield wall, you shatter his shield, and he's dead. Your horse, you your lance just runs him through. And then the horse does nine damage. So nine damage on the other guy okay. Stops him out of the way. Yep, so he gets pushed back. Okay. Top of the round, what's your next combat action gonna be?
SPEAKER_02Okay, I guess that I've kind of pushed through. I'm now wheeling my horse around. Again, I think I'm probably it's gonna be my kind of MO will be to drop the lance and then to turn around and then slide through the pass by and attack with the sword from sword back leaning down partially to slice through anyone that I'm
Rallying for Another Charge
SPEAKER_02gonna go back through. So literally turn around and go back the same back the other way again, straight through the Sir Karadak and Sir Histelwin, you're doing the same guy. Okay. I'm gonna be going for the other guy this time. I'm I mean the other guy's on the floor anyway, so as far as I'm concerned, he's out of this initial combat. Exactly. Do you want your squires to grab them? I'll I'll let Felix make the decision about what he wants to do, because I'm gonna be too busy rushing in to fight the other guy.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, I think if you do a call squire action, that's your action for the combat.
SPEAKER_02So I won't I I'll I'll just like her again. Okay. So give me your mounted charge. No. Oh, a fumble. Fumble, basically, yeah. Oh, okay. What's they gonna do? Oh no, just gonna be bad. No, he failed. Okay.
SPEAKER_00So I fumbled and he failed. A fumbled versus a f a fumble and a failed.
SPEAKER_02Does your does your lance break? Neither suffer damage, yeah. I I wasn't using my lance, I was using my shield. I'm sorry, my my sword. Uh so neither suffer damage, both drop break weapons. I drop I dropped my sword. I'd say it sounds like you I'd probably hit their shield and I don't have enough grip in my hand. My sword goes flying out of my hand. I just ride on through. Yeah, I like that visual.
SPEAKER_00I like that visual.
SPEAKER_01So Kerada. I will charge the uh the other one. That not the the one that's guys right here.
SPEAKER_00Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Is um can I still use the hate for sex ones, or it was just on the first one? It's just uh that one. Yep. It is more like a scene thingy. So I failed.
SPEAKER_00He fails as well. So yeah, so you're you're you charge after him with your lance, and he the you know, he he tries to swipe, but he's trying to swipe at your horse with his axe, and he and he misses a pistol win. So I'm doing the same as last time then oh no, failed. Now we know why the morale loss was so high, right? He failed as well. So again, the two he's trying to he's he he swipes at your horse with his axe and and misses and you miss with your with your lance against him. And so that is the end of the second battle turn. Are we going back in to try and finish him?
SPEAKER_02Good question, actually. That's a good question. Um what was the question? Do we want it do we want to go back and try and finish them? Or do we can do we leave it as is? Because that's a good question. I'll leave it to your call.
SPEAKER_01You're the uh You've got the Bellfield experience, so kind of case of Saxons. Okay, we'll be willing to continue fighting.
SPEAKER_02Me too. I'm gonna make an em well, I'll make an energetic role then, I suppose. We hate Saxons, that's that's that's my energetic's not great.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I'm gonna count your so that not everyone has to roll this. I'm gonna count that your energetic role is kind of like you're rallying your comrades to the cause of having one more go at these guys. Do you know what?
SPEAKER_02We're gonna have another go at them. Excellent. I'm with your I want I I won't I want my sword back, I suppose. Yes, well, I guess I'll take the spear out and use that instead. Let's give that a go. More into the bridge. God. I passed. I succeeded. Uh no, I'm trying to fail it, so it didn't. Sorry first. I felt setting the wrong thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So that he yeah, so he swings wide with his axe and misses you as you charge at him.
SPEAKER_02Not used to flying with a shield with a shield and a spear at all spectacles doesn't quite work.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so we'll charge again, like shouting, sign up sounds.
SPEAKER_00Go away, Saxons.
The Final Clash
SPEAKER_02That's the politest charge I've ever heard. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I failed.
SPEAKER_00So he's still winning. Yep. Success. Okay. Oh, that is a success as well. But your success is higher, so he only has a partial success. So he only so he gets to use his shield to absorb some of the damage, but you take no damage from him. So roll your damage? At least one of us is good. 22. Oh, nice. Okay. So yeah, your your lance strikes him in the shield, like he deflects most of it from the shield, but like, you know, his he sort of afterward, after you pass by him on your horse, he's like shaking his arm, and you can see some flecks of blood flying off into the air. So this battle turn, the second battle turn, comes to a close, and you see King Lot and his Conroy charge against King Arthur's Conroy, and his Arthur's battalion takes a huge beating, and King Lot bashes Arthur's horse's head in, and the horse goes down, and Arthur falls off his horse, and you no longer see him in the mass of men that are just all over the battlefield.