Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Lady's Boon (Jousting the Black Knight)

The Lady of the lake uses her Enchantress ability to Enamor Sir Blaewen to her and ensure that he will be "motivated" to accomplish her boon.
In a tower nearby lives the Black Knight. He is as devoted to his infernal ways as the Lady is devoted to Avalon and in the course of their disagreements he has taken a magical potion of the Lady's and she would like it back. She asks Blaewen to teach the Black Knight a lesson and retrieve the Potion.
Balewen rides through the woods to a clearing at the base of the Black Knight's tower where the evil man himself is waiting.
(I did not have power when playing this encounter so I winged it, thus it's not completely in line with some of the suggestions on the Bestiary Page)


Black Knight of the Tower
STR 16          Lance 5d
CON 28         Sword 3d
CHA 15         Armor -10
Adds: +4

The Joust was run as an All-Out melee (see the House Rules Page) and was to the death.
First round both Knights make their Jousting SRs (Level 1 vs STR, since neither has this as a Trait), so no one is unhorsed. The Black Knight take the much harder blow at 11 points and  Blaewen loses 4.
Second pass, again both knights manage to stay on their horses and again the Black Knight in his lighter armor takes the harder blow (both Knights are rolling in the low 20s pretty consistently).
Now the Black Knight is down to 4 CON & Blaewen 6.
Sir Blaewen decides to try and use his Persuasion Trait to convince his opponent to yield. Since the Black Knight is so evil I decide it will be a level 2 SR, which Blaewen fails.
A third pass is made and the evil Knight is Killed by a final heavy blow (he had taken an additional 11 points of damage.
Blaewen recovers the potion and a bag of coppers from the dead Knight, taking his warhorse as a prize as well. Baewen returns to his  Lady of the Lake and convinces her to let him keep the potion (Again a Persuasion SR). It turns out to be a CHA enhancing potion and he gains a whopping 6 point permanent gain to CHA!
Unbeknownst to Blaewen drinking the potion carried a pretty serious risk of becoming permanently under the sway of the lady, but she failed her CHA SR and Blaewen merely accrues the benefits.
As it is, our hero stays with the lady for three months, into Autumn, before she fumbles an Enchantress roll (for dramatic purposes I extende this to one per month not one per day [see Traits Page]). He then makes his way South, into the Wastelands...

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