# Session S02 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[Pendragon - Loathsome Wyrm and the Machrel of the Sea|The Loathsome Wyrm and the Machrel of the Sea]]] > [session:: S02] > [prev:: [[2025-05-03_S01]]] > [next:: ] > [session date:: 2025-05-17] > [campaign date:: ] > [my pc:: ] > [dm:: [[zagreusthethird|Paul]]] > [player:: [[cherojack|Mike S.]], [[rpgsoldier|Rpgsoldier]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]]] > [pcs:: ] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) %% ### Starting notes: - %% ## Notes - [[kailiblue|Kai]] couldn't make it because of work - A song, a lament, that we can't understand the words - [[Folklore]] rolls » all failed - The song of the serpent - The wyrm's lament - Beach in Seahaven - Seven brave knights who tried to kill it; no one who hasn't attacked it first has died - A woman ministers to it each Saturday at noon; she appears out of no where - Reminds of the first wife - Wife had passed about 5 years prior (2 years of pilgramage for Lord Tywyn) - Second course: lamprey - People we've met - Owain, Tywyn's squire - The cook - Nellwyn, a nursery maid - Cynfarth, stablehand - Dame Meredyth, head of watch - Eiluned, Lady Alison's lady-in-waiting - Darren, the troubador - Another mournful sea song, instrumental - Lady-in-waiting - Has been present 2–3 years - Her fashion is old-fashioned - Has an ornate silver rod, "vulgar", ugly as part of her fashion - Head of watch - Conversation and combat with quarterstaff » Isolt bests Dame Meredyth - The next day » we all roll [[Energetic]] so walk out into the village (it's Saturday) - [[Sir Maddoc the Valorous]] notes it's not a dragon, but a sea serpent (no wings) - Around the village - Father Andrew Pius, chapel - Fishing nets, gathering seaweed, gathering sea shells, gutting fish - Lady soaking nettles - [[Sir Maddoc the Valorous]] approaches Father Andrew Pius - Conversation about the wyrm » leviathan from Book of Job (Job 41) - [[Sir Maddoc the Valorous]] rolled a 20 when rolling a Spiritual trait check… Whoops. - Trouble all started when Lord Tywyn remarried - [[Sir Elias the Pleasant]] approaches Ronnat, the nettle woman - She doesn't like Lady Allison… not a good influence, doesn't attend church or confession - Her husband was a knight, slain in battle » a widow - The wyrm dragon hums, other than Saturday afternoon when the strange lady appears and sings to it - Reminds her of an older version of Maisr'y, Tywin's daughter - [[Dame Isolt the Proud]] approaches Mairsile, a woman sells sea shells - Mairsile loved a pedler who had moved along… - Wyrm singing of their lost love too - Leaves around sundown unless disturbed - She disappears if someone approaches her - Lady Allison is ready to send the knights out to our doom… - We get prepared (armour) - [[Sir Elias the Pleasant]] sets Jasper to watch for the woman - Head over to the beach - The wyrm sees us and takes a defensive posture - We chill and wait - [[Sir Elias the Pleasant]] and [[Dame Isolt the Proud]] suddenly see a woman standing beside the wyrm, wearing a tight, almost sequined dress (anachronistic, but shimmering) and is humming. She sits down beside the wyrm, laying it's head in her lap - Isolt notices it looks like an older Maisr'y from the family portrait - For [[Sir Maddoc the Valorous]], she didn't suddenly appear. It seems more like a machrel lept from the water and take human form on the beach - Approach with [[Singing]] - [[Dame Isolt the Proud]] gets a critical - Woman disappears as we approach - Jasper jumps into the water, and then comes back out - The wyrm is cautious but not aggressive - Conversation with the wyrm - It nods yes, Lady Allison is a witch - The wyrm is Morian, the machrel is Mais'ry - Raewyn rolled a critical and then a success about folklore - [[Dame Isolt the Proud]] sends Raewyn off to assist Eiluned, and get closer to the silver rod - New plan: - [[Dame Isolt the Proud]] engages Lady Allison as a distraction - [[Sir Elias the Pleasant]] and [[Sir Maddoc the Valorous]] engage Lord Tywin, in hopes of bringing him to meet his son - He hasn't heard from his children since his return - Convinces Lord Tywin to come down to the beach - A tear drips from the eye of the wyrm - Something only Morian would know - "Would Lady Corola wear red?" No. - "How many swords in the armory have the family crest." Six gouges in the sand. - Tywin is convinced the wyrm is his son, and Lady Allison is responsible, and gallops back up to the manor - Door swings open, Tywin confronts Lady Allison - Isolt tries tackling her, Lady Allison crits - Lady Allison bolts - Lady Alllison sics her dogs on Elias and Maddoc - Isolt and Meredyth are both running after her, swords drawn - Lady Alison is reaching into her bosom for the silver rod… - Both Elias and Maddoc go to restrain Lady Alison - Elias is able to restrain her - Lady Alison is clutching her wand, and goes on offense - Her hand is wrinkled and old for a moment - She places a curse on Elias, and he suddenly feels tired and weary (next skill check is -5) - Maddoc successfully grabs her wand, just as the wolf attacks… and missed - Isolt defends against the wolves - Tywin realizes Allison needs to be alive to turn his children back - She has the wolves back down, and Meredyth has Alison bound - Tywin demands she is brought to the sea shore - At the shore, Allison transforms the wyrm back into Morian - Lady Allison blows a horn, and fish jump onto the shoe… but Maisr'y says she'd rather be a fish, and jumps back into the water, not trusting Lady Allison - Lady Allison is burned in a pyre - Sir Maddoc and the priest say a prayer for her soul ### Winter Phase - Winter Phase, but abbreviated - Glory - Solving the mystery 50 - Defeat the witch 250 - Outside St. Paul's Cathedral, a stone anvil, with a sword in the stone