Saving the Princess

This is going to be a VERY long post about all of the steps that happened that lead to the Princesses Rescue.

Our local Coven had Princess Elenor Keswick's shoe in their possession and divined it. From this we found that the Princess was being held in the heart of Verloren which is uninhabitable. The only thing keeping her alive was her magic prison which was a crystal sarcophagus. There was no motivation known for her capture. There will be a gate opened that will allow a rescue party to go in and get her. Only the Righteous of the town would be able to go in and get the princess while the Sybaritic of the town would stand at the gate and hold it open. Through their divination we found out that the Prince of Verloren (The artist formally known as Prince Cassius Keswick) is "something different" from what he was when he left Argost. The Prince of Verloren will be near the Princess and if he is when we tried to rescue her, our mission would fail.

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There are more people in the town than just those who follow a righteous and sybaritic path. High Priest Crassius of Sen Solis came into town and took the Righteous and Transcendent on a mission to retrieve an artifact of Sen Solis that would temporarily allow those who "walk the middle path" (Transcendent or Unaligned) to change their path to Righteous for the rescue mission. This mission was successful and we were able to retrieve a cup.

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Dimitri from Bagristi came in and ALSO had an artifact that allowed us to temporarily allow those who walked the middle path (Transcendent or Unaligned) to change their path to Sybaritic for the rescue mission. This mission was successful and we were able to retrieve a cup.

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From there we split up the town into two teams. Team Righteous and Team Sybaritic making sure that everyone’s talents were placed where they would be needed most.

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On Saturday we were told that the Prince of Verloren has a trophy room and could potentially be lured there to get him away from the Princess. Thus, Team Distraction was born. Team Distraction spent hours on Saturday tirelessly working on ciphers because they were told that they would need to find key words in the trophy room.

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As night fell and we readied the town we were given a successful bit more information from Sir Argyle about what we were walking into:

Team Righteous (Lead by Lord Alpheus): The Sarcophagus would have 7 magical anchors attached to it that they would need to dismantle in order to get the Princess out. Those who were present would be able to get 6 of them, but the 7th anchor being released relied on Team Distraction (Lead by Lady Galena) to complete their mission. Meanwhile Team Sybaritic would be defending and holding the gate open by harvesting essence from the dessert and undead and having our local coven continuously power the gate to make sure that it stayed open.

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As night fell and we were preparing we were informed that despite our different plans there was no way to inform each other that the missions would be completed. With this knowledge Team Sybaritic was addressed by Sir Rathbern warning us that we were to hold that gate until we died.

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Team Distraction was successful and released the 7th anchor.

Team Righteous was successful and got the princess out.

Team Sybaritic was successful and was able to keep the gate open long enough for Team Righteous and Team Distraction to get out.

When Team Righteous had escaped with the Princess, the Prince of Verloren sent Team Distraction back and turned his anger on Team Sybaritic who had no idea if the mission had been complete. The Prince of Verloren, The High Inquisitor, and Lord Wicke came to the gate and killed the entirety of Team Sybaritic and stripped the Knights of their Knighthoods.

I would like to take a moment and honor all of those who died in an effort for saving the Princess. Thank you for giving your lives for your Kingdom: (If I am missing you reach out to me and please let me add you)

Maeve

Octavia

Anastazja

Vervaine

Sir Malcom

Sir Matthias

Sir Maddox

Sir Valeria

Lady Jenadere

Sir Rowan

Sir Maverick

Sir Rhys

Sir Merrick

Silas

Fletcher

Squire Bromewell

Lord Hollis

Sir Alphonse

Sir Ren

Squire Junniper

Braden

Andi

Whydan

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When everyone had resurrected and we got back into town we found that the princess was safe but still in her prison. Count Harlow came in and explained he was working on a way to free her.

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On Sunday the local woman Rowena was in town and said that she had seen a prison like this before and would be able to open it. As she was attempting to open it her presence insighted an attack from the Stone Tower. The town defended against the Stone Tower, Rowena was able to open the prison, and the Princess was awakened. She had a spirit of the Ardent Ruby watching over her at all times.

Princess Elenor gave a speech with quotes such as "You're the best knights I could ever ask for" and 'Thank you for saving me" and restored everyone's knighthood. A lot of people cried.

The End.